Former Victoria's Secret model Kylie Bisutti has lashed out at the famous lingerie company for making her pose seductively. Kylie opted to leave her job as a model for religious reasons back in early 2012 and now she has even penned a book about her experience, named 'I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model' which will tell all about her career.
Kylie says she decided to quit when a photographer working for Victoria's Secret said posing seductively clad in lingerie "is what Victoria's Secret models do". She then had a realization:
"That's when it hit me, I was being paid to strip down and pose provocatively to titillate men. It wasn't about modelling clothes anymore; I felt like a piece of meat. The next day, I broke down and started sobbing. I was in my bedroom and dropped to my knees and started to pray, saying: 'God, why did you have me win the Victoria's Secret Angel competition if it was going to make me feel this way? I'm not honouring my husband. I just want answers!'"
She also says she didn't like how Victoria's Secret models made other women feel bad about their bodies because they were constantly comparing:
"I realised that I didn't want to model anything that sold sex, at the time, a Victoria's Secret lingerie show was airing on TV, and I was looking at Twitter and saw loads of tweets from women comparing themselves to the impossible image of the models. I realised my career was sending a bad message to women about confidence and body image."
Kylie comments that she is happier now and even working on her own clothing line of "modest clothes":
"It spreads my message, which is that beauty isn't about what you look like, it's about what's in your heart, that's the most important thing."
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