Victoria’s Secret Model Kylie Bisutti Talks Dark Secrets Behind Modeling: Underage Prostitution And Starvation (PHOTOS)

 We all know what goes on in the modeling world, right? You see tall, glamorous supermodels walking down runways and wearing million dollar outfits. But it’s really all about drugs, starvation, rejection, and fights. Models are used to constant rejection, body shaming over their height, their waist, their size, and pretty much every inch of their body. There is no such thing as modeling ‘talent’, like there is in acting. You either have the look or you don’t, and nothing you show them will change their mind. It’s an industry that breeds insecurity and eating disorders, and it’s pretty much epitomizes every cliché in the book – except that they’re not clichés.

Now, former Victoria’s Secret model Kylie Bisutti reveals to the New York Post the horrific personal experiences she had behind-the-scenes of her life as a swimsuit and lingerie model. Like most models, Kylie moved to NYC as a teenager and aspired to be a model. Like other models, she was willing to do anything to make it in the business. She admits, “New York really opened my eyes to the dark side of the modeling industry. One of my roommates was so bulimic she would involuntarily throw up when she ate. She would go to sleep crying every night and just look at herself in the mirror thinking that she was so fat. And she was so thin.” However, she herself started to face the same pressures because despite being 5-foot-ten and 115 pounds, she was asked to drop 2 inches from her waist because her agent told her she looked like ‘a cow’.

You think that’s bad? No, this is an industry where the very people that are supposed to be protecting you end up taking advantage of you. She continues, “I had photographers and male models hitting on me constantly. Once, a photographer actually pushed me up against the wall and tried to kiss me. I was so desperate to succeed in the business that I complied when my agent told me, ‘All models have a topless shot.’ I was only 16 when I posed for mine.”

Eventually, her devout Christian husband – who she met at 18 – convinced her to join Victoria’s Secret, and she was thrilled that her body and curves were finally accepted when she became a part of VS. But it came with its own challenges – instead of being told to lose weight and worrying about money, she was now being sold as a sex symbol. She was told to flirt with celebrities and put in increasingly provocative situations, and she finally realized that nothing was worth the humiliation that she was being put through. Two years after she booked the VS contract, Kylie gave up millions of dollars and quit the industry. Some people call her stupid – we call her brave. You can read the rest of her story when her new book comes out, called I’m No Angel: From Victoria’s Secret To Role Model.

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