Heidi Klum slams the models of Victoria's Secret who say it was a toxic environment
Documentation in 2022 explores the allegations according to which the models were intimidated and harassed.
The Lingerie Victoria's Secret has been faced with a meticulous exam in recent years for several reasons. Customers have called for more major inclusiveness, employees allegedly allegedly a toxic work environment, and business managers have been accused of misconduct. The brand has made some changes in the wake of the controversy, but a model that is linked to the brand recently argued that there was nothing wrong in the first place. In an interview of January 31 with the podcast Calls his daddy ,, Heidi Klum Said to work with Victoria's Secret was "incredible" and criticized her model colleagues who spoke of alleged intimidation and misconduct after participating in the famous business fashion shows.
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"It was a great moment in my life," Klum said he was an angel of Victoria's Secret From 1999 to 2010, as indicated by US Weekly . His work included brand modeling in photoshoots and on the track of the Victoria's Secret fashion show. "It was incredible. I loved it," she added.
The conversation on his episode of Calls his daddy Turned to the Hulu 2022 docuseries Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons , who examines that Victoria's Secret was a toxic and misogynistic work environment, as well as the old CEO The Wexner links with the condemned sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . As indicated by The Guardian ,, Wexner denied knowing About the sexual misconduct of Epstein and said that he had broken the ties with him in 2008. Wexner resigned from his CEO of Victoria's Secret in 2020; Marketing Director Ed Razek , which had been accused of misogyny and harassment and made a transphobic comment in an interview, resigned in 2019.
Razek said The New York Times in response to An article on the company "The accusations of this report are categorically false, misinterpreted or taken into account. I had the chance to work with countless world class models and good professionals and to be very proud of mutual respect that we have some for the others."
Klum also responded to the accusations of the series. "Looking at the documentary, I saw a person, with whom I walked during these years, let's say they felt really uncomfortable. It's so strange," said the 50 -year -old Calls his daddy . "If you felt uncomfortable, why do you do it? I always loved it. I always wanted to wear the big wings ... It was fun."
In 2022, Klum revealed that she was requested to be part of the documents But refused. "I said to myself:" If you are looking for a negative story, you barked the bad tree because I had the most wonderful moment there "," she said on the Just for the variety podcast. She said that she had watched the first episode of the series but that he personally knew many people interviewed. "[H] ardently anyone I knew was on this program," she said. "I didn't know who were all these people."
She continued: "Hearing all these stories appear to me is breathtaking when they accuse different people of different things, and I say to myself:" Did my God really happen? "I don't know. So I still expected to have more information, but ... it never came. So I never continued to look at it."
After the departures of Wexner and Razek, Victoria's Secret renamed and canceled her annual fashion show. Last year, the annual fashion event returned to a new form with the first of a film entitled The World Tour . Klum expressed support for brand change in an interview with The Sunday project ( via US Weekly ).
"About time, that's all I can say. About time," she said in 2021. "As a model, you are going there, you are happy to have a job. When you are not the business, you do what you are told. But finally, looking at that now, I am like, almost the time. "Around the same moment, The model said Body + Soul, "I see that [the brand] is going through a lot of changes right now - about time! I'm very excited that they understand that there are so many different people who want to have beautiful things to Porter. I'm happy to see this. I always liked the brand when I worked [there] there are a lot of moons. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB