Erin Heatherton worked as a Victoria’s Secret model for five years. She said that she was ‘depressed’ because she was ‘working hard.’ ‘I would stare at my food and think I should just not eat,’ she said. A former Victoria’s Secret ‘Angel’ has revealed that she quit the lingerie brand after being told to lose weight for shows - a jolting disclosure but one that really shouldn’t surprise anybody anymore given that several models and actresses have been speaking out about struggling with bodyshaming and body image. Erin Heatherton, who worked as a Victoria’s Secret model for five years, told Time’s motto that she was pressured to be thinner for her last shows in 2013. She said: “My last two Victoria’s Secret shows, I was told I had to lose weight. I look back like, ‘Really?’” Now 27, Ms Heatherton told motto that she ate healthy and worked out twice a day but eventually 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. 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,” Ms Heatherton said. Erin Heatherton quit Victoria’s Secret after her final 2013 show because: “I realized 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.” Some weeks ago, Ms Heatherton, who appeared in the Adam Sandler film Grown Ups 2, posted an Instagram note in which she writes “I am not perfect” and that she will no longer “hid behind a fabricated version” of herself.
Source: NDTV
