Kylie Bisutti Slams Victoria Secret: Former Model Says VS Made Her Feel Like 'A Piece of Meat' PHOTOS
Former Victoria Secret model Kylie Bisutti recently made headlines when she slammed her former employer Victoria's Secret for making her feel like "a piece of meat."
While young women like Kendall Jenner hopes to one day model for the brand, Bisutti said she has no intentions on ever modeling again for the company. In her new tell-all book, I'm No Angel, the former model admitted that she was expected to lose more weight from her already thin body. In an interview with the New York Post, she recalled being put on a strict diet of oatmeal, fruits and vegetables just to meet the expectations of a runway model.
"I'm 5-foot-10, and I got down to 115 pounds with measurements of 34-24-34. In February 2007, New York Fashion Week was approaching, and while everyone I knew was being sent out to auditions, I wasn't. "Why am I still going on test shoots?" I asked my agent," Bisutti said.
Bisutti said that her agent told her she needed to lose 2 inches from her hips because she looked like a "fat cow."
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The former model also admitted to laying on a bed in skimpy clothing while a photographer encouraged her to pose sexually. "That's when it hit me. I was being paid to strip down and pose provocatively to titillate men. It wasn't about modeling clothes anymore; I felt like a piece of meat," she said.
Bisutti said she spent hours in her room crying and asked God why she was treated poorly.
Bisutti announced back in February 2012 that she was quitting modeling to save her body "for her husband."
Since Bisutti allegations, Victoria's Secret released a statement and said that Bisutti's statements are fabricated.
"She was never a Victoria's Secret 'Angel' as defined by the terms of our Angel model contract. And contrary to Ms. Bisutti's claims, she was never offered any subsequent modeling contracts or opportunities with Victoria's Secret despite her multiple appeals for further work. She has repeatedly fabricated her work experience with Victoria's Secret - including a relationship that simply did not exist," the statement read.
