Victoria's Secret Model Told She's Too Fat

Former Victoria's Secret model Erin Heatherton has spoken out about how the lingerie brand pressured her to lose weight, triggering her battle with depression.

The 27-year-old left Victoria's Secret in 2013 after 5 years of strutting the catwalk for the brand's elaborate lingerie shows.

"My last two Victoria's Secret shows, I was told I had to lose weight," she told website Motto. "I look back like, 'Really?'"

The model says she began a strict regime of working out twice a day and watching what she ate, but in preparing for the 2013 show, her body "just wouldn't do it."

"I was really depressed because I was working so hard and I felt like my body was resisting me," she says. "And I got to a point where one night I got home from a workout and I remember staring at my food and thinking maybe I should just not eat."

"I'm willing to sacrifice my pride, in a sense, and my privacy because I know that if I don't speak about it, I could be withholding information that would really help women," she says. "It hurts too much to keep it in, and that's why I'm not keeping it in now."

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