Former VIctoria’s Secret Angels have revealed the hours of intense work that went into creating her glamorous runway image – one of whom admitted her own mother had trouble recognizing her.
Jasmine Tookes, 32, from California, and Josephine Skriver, 30, originally from Denmark, spoke candidly about their experiences when interviewed on the Real Pod podcast with 26-year-old host Victoria Garrick.
Victoria asked the models if they understood or understood the impact on viewers of the runway shows and how it made them feel now.
Josephine said, “It was a strange time because you could tell you had a lot of eyes on you.”
“We got signed right when social media was exploding too, so it was this combination of: everyone will know you for that glamor side, two and a half hours for hair and makeup, personal trainer, that whole situation. “
American model Jasmine Tookes, 32, (left) and Danish model Josephine Skriver, 30, (right) spoke candidly about their experiences when interviewed on the Real Pod podcast
“But you now have the opportunity to take them behind the scenes and show them the real you.”
“It felt like they just let people in overnight and I don’t think I understood, especially at first, how obsessed people can be with small details.”
“Like they wanted to know what kind of toothpaste I used, and I was like, ‘Really? That just seems boring to me.”
Josephine added that in that moment they both realized how much responsibility they had and showed their fans how much work they put into preserving their bodies.
Jasmine revealed that she sees comments on her Instagram “every day” saying, “You’re always in such a good mood” and “You’re always so perfect.”
She said, “I think, no, I’m not!” Not even the slightest bit.
American model Jasmine Tookes, 32, said her real life is different than the life people see on her Instagram
“When you see me waking up in my house in the morning, in the middle of the day, walking around with my baby’s spit up and no makeup on, that’s my real life.”
Josephine chimed in, saying that the glamor side of her on stage was a version of her and likened it to a work uniform.
“Some people are told they have to wear a suit to the office – it’s just part of our image.”
“No one wants to wear their work suit 24/7, none of us want to be smart 24/7,” she said.
Victoria said it wasn’t immediately obvious to audiences watching the shows or pictures of the angels that they were photoshopped or used body makeup.
She added that people aren’t aware of this because there weren’t that many filters and apps for editing photos back then.
The presenter said: “I think for us it was an easy thing and then I put on my bathing suit to go to the pool with my friends and the standard is to look like what the photo from the magazine looks like.”
Jasmine then said, “It’s just so crazy because I think it’s so obvious when you look back at our old VS campaigns.”
Josephine added, “I was standing next to the big billboards on the street and I could stand there for 30 minutes and not a single person could put the two people together.”
Josephine Skriver said her own mother wouldn’t even recognize her from looking at her modeling photos
“I feel like I don’t even look like my pictures.” Sometimes my mom would ask, “Is that you? I didn’t even know you could look like that.”
“Even though you were constantly photographing underwear, I never really felt naked because we had two layers of body makeup and glitter and oil.”
The angels appeared in jogging bottoms before undergoing three hours of hair and makeup to give them a glamorous look.
Josephine commented that Victoria’s Secret is “more inclusive,” saying that as an insider, she thinks the company’s old era is more inclusive.
She said, “I got a little taller than I was with a 22-inch waist, and now I was 24, 25, and they were the first people to ever do that.” [say]”Please don’t lose weight”.
“For us, from an inside perspective, it was extremely inclusive.” [compared to] When I worked with haute couture, the opposite was true.
‘But [we were] “Obviously it wasn’t comprehensive at all in this very small box that made up the industry then that it was now in hindsight.”
Jasmine said that for “years” only she and Lais Ribeiro (pictured) were considered “the black girls” of the brand
Jasmine praised the brand for seeing the need to change the way it operates, but said it “definitely took longer” than it needed to.
“I think at Victoria’s Secret, me and Lais (Ribeiro) were considered ‘the black girls.’ Lais is Brazilian.
“And that’s all there was for years,” Jasmine said frankly.
When asked how it made her feel, the ex-Angel said: “To be honest I didn’t realize that much at the time, but looking back now I’m like, ‘okay, that’s a little bit weird that she just wanted me, basically as her only black girl.
“It didn’t affect me at the time, but looking back I’m like, ‘That sucks.'”
Web has reached out to Victoria’s Secret for comment.