Heidi Klum was not a fan of the Hulu docuseries Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons.
“I watched that, and I assumed 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 give attention to different tasks.
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 twenty 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 guardian firm, L Manufacturers. (Below new management, Victoria’s Secret has since apologized and rebranded, having dropped the now not “culturally related” Angels marketing campaign.)
As one of many greatest names of the Angels period, Klum is talked about within the present, however she does not seem in it.
“They did method me. They requested me if I needed to be a part of it, and I used to be like, ‘For those who’re searching for a destructive 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 pals: Alessandra [Ambrosio], Tyra [Banks], Adriana [Lima], Gisele [Bündchen], you recognize, these are my ladies. We simply had the most effective time collectively. So, you recognize, listening to all these tales pop up, to me, is like, thoughts blowing, you recognize? After they accuse completely different folks of doing issues, I’m like, ‘My gosh, like, did this actually occur?’ I don’t know.
“So I used to be at all times 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 trade 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-about curvy on the time, you recognize?”
