To think Victoria Secret Angels are just ordinary women?

[RoseCavallari]

Obviously they are beautiful and have amazing figures but they are still ordinary women. They get their body through hard work and eating well.

I was reading some comments on the DM with people saying -

I could never have a body like that as I don't have the time to work out.

These girls obviously starve themselves

That they are lucky to look like that.

We all have the same choices, just like them. They work, they have children, but they make better food choices and have the dedication to work out.

Aibu to think these are ordinary women and the hate comments are most likely down to jealousy?

i was replying to those who said "i will never be model material!" so? it doesn't matter, but being fit and healthy also makes you happier! exercise releases endorphins and it makes you happy. I wasn't saying you SHOULD have the same body, just that anybody COULD.
but it's not about the body, its about being happy with yourself.

yy rebecca thats what I was saying!
and i agree with the second part too - i was saying we could all have a body like that but still not be model material. it's not about being model material. it's about being happy and being happy in your own skin! which I'm sure we all would be if we worked out as hard as these women to acheive a wonderful figure, as well as being healthy.

I'm getting accused of marketing?!

What the actual fuck?

I'm out and leaving. I won't have lies spread about me.

i've not RTFT because i only ever care about the OP. I leave my own a lot because I get accused of a lot of stuff. I agree with your OP. i don't see that you're marketing anything.

Solid that is a very good point. Not only does exercise improve physical health it improves emotional well being too. I am gearing myself up for a heakth drive but need the motivation first

I lost lots of weight and looked great a few years ago but there is no way I'm as georgeous as any of those women. Yes, they work hard but it's still fuelling this unattainable ideal. Bugger it...I'm off to have another chocolate digestive!

They are very physically fit. It's their jobs to be fit & sexy and I'm sure they work for it.
I'm fat and I can honestly say I wouldn't want to be as skinny as them, It wouldn't look right in me. I aim for a toned healthy size 10 because it suits my shape/height etc. everyone's different but I think these girls are too skinny & far from a role model. IMO

YABU. I could never have a body like that even if I wanted one- and that's a big if.

I could be Kylie if I put the pies down tho. Mmmm lovely lovely lovely pies.

If we look at top athletes, who are pretty much at the peak of physical perfection, most of them don't look like Victoria's Secret models.

I've just been reading the article again a bit more closely and one's a former ballerina and another is a former professional basketball player. So of course they're going to be incredibly fit. And one of them says she has a fast metabolism and can basically eat what she likes....so not really ordinary women at all. Most of them are in their 20s as well. It's much easier to maintain your figure when you're young.

Op you get one bunand you are swearing and huffing off the thread? You need to be less sensitive

I don't understand why a woman who has 1 hour a week to spend on something she enjoys, should swap doing what she likes (sewing) for doing something which she doesn't want to do (swimming) in order to try and look more like one of the women in the pictures when that's never going to happen?

I mean if she is unhealthy then that might be a wise swap, but if she wasn't why can't she carry on with her sewing?

Bizarre.

From this BTW:

"There's no excuse for not exersising other than laziness! lets be honest here, I'm as lazy as they come. I can't be arsed. at all. And I don't really have the time! But, you make that time! thats the dedication bit! if people can put in an hour a week to, say, do some sewing, switch it for swimming instead!"

Pandora - I bet loads of us had great bodies in our 20s! I mean not supermodel great, but great for normal people who aren't paid to look amazing...

This thread is weird.

I'm sure they exercise and watch they eat but at the end of the day they're doing what they do because they won the genetic lottery.

I find the whole Victoria Secrets thing quite tacky and 1970's.

Very 70s - only things missing are ears and a white bobble tail

Very. They must pay a fortune to get the fashion ones to switch over.

I had a fabulous figure in my 20's

Not at all 70s. If it were 70s, there would be women protesting, instead of this chorus of : " They make lots of money!! It is only our laziness that stops us doing the same!!! It's a choice!!! "

I have mates who are lazy bones and eat and drink what they like and have figures like that and some who are gym bunnies and eat very little and will never look like that! And everything in between Its life

I also think that VS probably gives you a rash, is flammable, and is probably made in the third world by small children.

And there is something crap about a teeny tiny number of women being paid a lot of money to play a big part in a system that oppresses the majority of other women.

So, actually, I don't think thst all 'choices' are equally valid or valuable or that all ways of making money are 'good'.

I think the OP's outrage at being accused of marketing is funny, though.
Why DID she start this thread? I'd have loved to hear a little bit more from her.

I'm 5'3"..... I can exercise and eat well as much as I want, but I'm never gonna be a model! Genetics play their part, don't they?

yabu they're not at all ordinary women.

that's not to say exercise and good eating aren't sensible choices, but I could have all the exercise, time and good eating in the world and wouldn't look like that.

in fact ordinary women don't have the time and money to spend looking like that

I don't know anyone in Rl who looks like that. and I don't think I've seen anyone either.

Yes I hold my hands up! I'm a VS model and wanted the whole of mumsnet (obviously the perfect target audience!) to buy lots of underwear from me. Yet I was found out.

Why can't I start this thread? Why does there have to be a reason. I think they are just ordinary women, I don't see them as what every woman should aspire to. I've never even bought VS underwear, I bought some leggings from there to be yoga in and they are good quality.

I think that seeing that they work out hard and eat well is a good message to get across. I don't like the celebrity culture of they are these perfect people that us mortals will never be. Actually no they and we are just human.

Why do I have to be accused of marketing? What exactly am I trying to promote here?

Underwear that I've never bought?
Instagram accounts that are not run by me and that already have thousands of followers?
A viner that isn't me and who I've never met who already has a million subsribers?

I'm in the process of trying to eat better and make the right choices and try different exercises to see which I might really enjoy, so I read a lot about it and it was a recent topic that was covered in the media.