VS model labelled too fat for show

April 7, 2016 by admin
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Former Victoria’s Secret model Erin Heatherton has spoken out about how the lingerie brand pressured her to lose weight, triggering her battle with depression.

The 27-year-old, who is also actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex girlfriend, left Victoria’s Secret in 2013 after 5 years of strutting the catwalk for the brand’s elaborate lingerie shows.

“My last two Victoria’s Secret shows, I was told I had to lose weight,” she told news and popular culture site Motto. “I look back like, ‘Really?’”

The model says she began a strict regime of working out twice a day and watching what she ate, but in preparing for the 2013 show, her body “just wouldn’t do it.”

“I was really depressed because I was working so hard and I felt like my body was resisting me,” she says. “And I got to a point where one night I got home from a workout and I remember staring at my food and thinking maybe I should just not eat.”

“I realised I couldn’t go out into the world – parading my body and myself in front of all these women who look up to me – and tell them that this is easy and simple and everyone can do this.”

Heatherton, who has featured in campaigns for the likes of Valentino, Karl Lagerfeld, Versace and Dolce Gabbana, says she fell into depression following her association with Victoria’s Secret.

A photo posted by Erin Heatherton (@erinheathertonlegit) on Feb 15, 2016 at 3:29pm PST

The model, who has shared candid posts on Instagram about her body image struggles, says she decided to tell her story in the hope that it will help other women.

“I’m willing to sacrifice my pride, in a sense, and my privacy because I know that if I don’t speak about it, I could be withholding information that would really help women,” she says. “It hurts too much to keep it in, and that’s why I’m not keeping it in now.”

She dated Leonardo DiCaprio from 2011 to 2012, and is now in a relationship with Australian musician Felix Boxsom.

-nzherald.co.nz

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Carolyn Murphy strips down to her lingerie for sultry Town & Country shoot

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The supermodel covers the May issue of the magazine, which was shot by controversial photographer Terry Richardson
Although she has been modeling for over two decades, Carolyn said she sees the ‘evolution of the American woman as being more about her spirit’
Carolyn has a 15-year-old daughter with her ex-husband Jake Schroeder

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Supermodel Carolyn Murphy flaunts her ageless beauty and flawless figure in a sexy lingerie-inspired shoot as she reveals that she has been ‘cast as every blonde icon’ over the course of her illustrious career.

The 41-year-old donned a mod black and white Prada dress while posing in a swimming pool for the cover of the May issue of Town Country, which was shot by controversial photographer Terry Richardson.

‘I’ve been cast as every blonde icon, you name it: Grace Kelly, Romy Schneider, Carolyn told the magazine. ‘But what’s interesting to me now is what lies behind the façade of the photo—this idea of being American, and what that means, how that defines you.’

Stripping down: Carolyn Murphy shows off her flawless figure in her new shoot for Town Country magazine

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Fresh-faced: Carolyn wore a Prada dress as she posed in a swimming pool for the cover of the May issue of the magazine

However, after nearly three decades of being cast as the elegant or sexy blonde, the Sports Illustrated star said she sees the American woman as more than just her looks.

‘So often the American woman has been typified by a standard of outward beauty: blond hair, blue eyes, healthy build,’ she explained. ‘I see the evolution of the real American woman as being more about her spirit.

‘She can roll up her sleeves and get dirty. She can do it all—she is classy and she is casual. Neither holds more importance than the other, and the beauty is in her effortlessness.’

Now and then: Carolyn is pictured on the runway at the Vionnet show during Paris Fashion Week in 2013 (left) and at the Todd Oldham show in New York in 1997 (right)

Bikini babe: Carolyn shared this Instagram snapshot of herself enjoying some ‘vacation meditation’ last week

Carolyn was spotted by a modeling scout at the tender age of 15 and headed to Paris before spending her spring with Ford Models founder Eileen Ford during her senior year of high school.

By 1998 the rising runway star was named VH1/Vogue’s Model of the Year, and nearly 20 years later her career is still thriving, scoring campaigns with both Oscar de la Renta and UGG in 2015.

In addition to her work as a model, Carolyn is raising Dylan, her 15-year-old daughter with her ex-husband Jake Schroeder.

While it may be difficult to grow up having a supermodel mother, Carolyn told Harper’z Bazaar last year that she stresses to Dylan that ‘a lot of what you see in the magazines isn’t real’.

Blonde beauties; The mom and her 15-year-old daughter Dylan Blue are pictured at a private dinner in London in 2015. Dylan is Carolyn’s only child with her ex-husband Jake Schroeder

Day date: Carolyn and her boyfriend Lincoln Pilcher are picture walking around New York City in 2014

‘If there’s a zit, a bag, a little extra thigh, they’ll be like, “Don’t worry, we’ll take care of that,’” she said.

Although she knows there is no such thing as perfect, Carolyn does follow an extensive beauty regimen that includes ‘alkaline water, eight to 10 hours of sleep, biodynamic vegetables, frequent sauna sessions, Estée Lauder Youth-Dew, power crystals; and Transcendental Meditation’, which was taught to her by her boyfriend Lincoln Pilcher’s childhood friend.

Carolyn has also worked with an energy healer for more than 20 years, noting: ‘She’s one of my secrets to staying sane.’

‘I don’t want to get all hoodoo guru about it,’ she added. ‘I gave birth to my daughter in the living room, but I’m not saying everyone should do that.’