
Candice Swanepoel, the South African Angel — featured on the left from a runway a while back and on the right (sandwiched between Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio) from a current Victoria’s Secret swimwear launch – caused concern this past week because of her much-thinner physique. Perhaps more importantly for Swanepoel, this dramatic change could result in the loss of her Angel wings. According to a Victoria’s Secret “insider”:
Like all Angels, Swanepoel, 22, is expected to be “healthy and muscular. There is a really clear criteria for both Angels and the catalogue. Their career path is Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue then to Angel, it’s the highest paying contract there is, period. The image is about being voluptuous, it’s not fat, but it’s curvy. But if you start to look skinny and ‘editorial print-like’ like fashion mag models, like undernourished, it gives the image the company does not want. Their shopper is older, their target is the Macy’s shopper. These are …
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