Erin Heatherton Opens Up About the Extreme Measures She Used to Lose Weight as a Victoria's Secret Angel

glamour.com:

Glamour features director —Heatherton talks about the extreme lengths she went to lose weight while working as an Angel from 2010 to 2013.

Her hope in sharing her story? That others might see that an impossible beauty standard was set during that time, so that they might be kinder to their own bodies. "Where things started to go south for me was when I hit, I think it was 25 [years old]," Heatherton . "There was this certain point where everything that I was doing just didn't yield the same results.

I was just a little bit bigger. In retrospect, that's just biology and how the body works. You're not the same size when you're 18 to when you're 25." Heatherton says the pressure to look a certain way as a model in the 2010s pushed her "over.