Erin Heatherton, former Victoria’s Secret Angel, says she took diet pills to lose weight and then injected herself with artificial hormones.
The 32-year old model In 2008, she began to walk in the brand’s fashion shows. However, she decided to quit in 2013, after being told by the brand that she was under pressure to lose weight.
In a desperate bid to lose weight, the Illinois-born model visited a ‘nutritionist to the stars’, who suggested she take appetite suppressants which she compared to ‘bathwater meth’.
Speaking in an upcoming episode of the Fallen Angel podcast, Erin said that ‘things went south’ when she naturally started to gain weight at the age of 25.
Erin Heatherton, a former Victoria’s Secret Angel, claims she took diet pills and inhaled artificial hormones to lose weight. She is seen during her last catwalk performance for the brand in 2013.
Erin, pictured in Las Vegas 2016, stated that “things went south” when she began to gain weight naturally at 25.
She said that there was a point when all of my efforts didn’t produce the same results.
“I was just slightly bigger. In retrospect, it’s just biology and how our bodies work. You may not be the same size at 18 and 25 as when you are 25.
Erin was afraid of losing her job so she sought the advice of a doctor, who prescribed Erin with a hormone injection and an appetite suppressant.
“[He]My therapist suggested that I start taking phentermine, a diet pill, to help me lose weight.
Erin quit the brand in 2013 due to weight pressure. Pictured one year earlier at the infamous annual New York fashion show
Erin in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show final time in 2013. She said that she looks back at the images and is shocked that she was told she had to lose weight.
“Help me lose my weight,” was all I could think of. What do people do? He suggested that she try something similar to what another model did.
“This is the nutritionist to the stars. I started out as a diabetic injecting my stomach each morning.
“I see it as emotional cutting, because I was so against it all. But I was only reluctantly doing it almost for the pain or to feel how wrong it was.
In 2016, Erin revealed she battled with depression and opened up about how her decision to quit the catwalk was brought on by pressure from the brand to lose weight.
Motto spoke to the blonde beauty about her body issues. She quit the underwear brand catwalk in 2013, and she said that after her last two Victoria’s Secret shows, she was told she had to lose weight. I look back and say, “Really?I look back, like “Really?
Erin, pictured in 2016, made her breakthrough appearing in Diane Von Furstenberg’s catwalk show in 2006 and has starred in campaigns for the likes of Valentino, Karl Lagerfeld, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana
“I felt really depressed because I was working so much and my body was resisting.
“It was at this point that I realized I shouldn’t eat after I had finished a workout. I can still remember staring at my food.
“I realized that I couldn’t go out in the world, parading myself and my body in front of all these women who look up at me and tell them that it’s easy and everyone can do it.”
Erin made her breakthrough appearing in Diane Von Furstenberg’s catwalk show in 2006 and has starred in campaigns for the likes of Valentino, Karl Lagerfeld, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana.
The model, who is a Sports Illustrated Regular, previously dated Leonardo di Caprio from 2011 to 2012.
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