Heidi Klum was not a fan of the Hulu docuseries Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons.
“I watched that, and I believed it was fairly boring, to be sincere with you,” the supermodel mentioned on Wednesday’s episode of the Only for Selection With Marc Malkin podcast. “Hardly anybody I knew was on that present. I did not know who half of these folks had been, so I used to be like, ‘Who’re all of them speaking? It is so unusual. I’ve by no means met any of those folks.'”
Klum was one of many lingerie firm’s most high-profile fashions — the corporate branded them as “Angels” — for 13 years. She took off her wings in December 2010, having left on good phrases, apparently to concentrate on different initiatives.
The buzzy three-part docuseries, which premiered final month, revealed alleged issues behind-the-scenes of Victoria’s Secret, together with bullying, sexual harassment and body-shaming, over the 20 years the Angels existed. It additionally defined that late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein had at one time been a cash supervisor for Les Wexner, the previous CEO of its one-time mother or father firm, L Manufacturers. (Below new management, Victoria’s Secret has since apologized and rebranded, having dropped the not “culturally related” Angels marketing campaign.)
As one of many largest names of the Angels period, Klum is talked about within the present, however she would not seem in it.
“They did strategy me. They requested me if I wished to be a part of it, and I used to be like, ‘For those who’re in search of a damaging story, you are barking up the unsuitable tree, as a result of I had probably the most fantastic time there,” the Making the Lower govt producer and host mentioned. “I felt like they had been my household. I traveled the world with them. I made nice associates: Alessandra [Ambrosio], Tyra [Banks], Adriana [Lima], Gisele [Bündchen], you realize, these are my women. We simply had one of the best time collectively. So, you realize, listening to all these tales pop up, to me, is like, thoughts blowing, you realize? After they accuse totally different folks of doing issues, I’m like, ‘My gosh, like, did this actually occur?’ I don’t know.
“So I used to be all the time ready to get extra perception. However, I don’t know, it by no means got here, so I by no means continued watching it.”
Different former Victoria’s Secret staff, together with fashions Lyndsey Scott and Frederique van der Wal, together with executives and others, selected to inform their tales, though it is unclear whether or not Klum heard them.
Hulu and present producers didn’t instantly reply to Yahoo Leisure’s request for remark.
In her interview, Klum agreed with the host that the modeling business as an entire has grow to be extra inclusive.
“Sure, and it ought to have been method sooner,” she mentioned. “I used to be thought of curvy on the time, you realize?”
