I’ve always wondered how every single Victoria’s Secret model has a bodunkadunk that looks like this when I sweat through 13 towels a week on various pieces of aerobic and weight machines but have a caboose that looks more like this.
Now I know what’s up.
VS model Selita Ebanks told the New York Daily News the secret to her perfectly smooth rump is not hours on the treadmill or a clean, meat-free diet; it’s tushy makeup!
"It's all about creating the illusion of this amazing body on the runway,” she said. “People don't realize that there are about 20 layers of makeup on my butt alone." Ebanks also said the body makeup application process takes an hour, plus hair and face makeup, which takes three to five hours. Each of the 38 models has an average of five people working on her. Another fun fact: Collectively, the 35 models in the show wear 100 pounds of body glitter, which works out to 2.86 pounds of body glitter per girl.
This is hardly the first VS model to land in the news over derriere drama. Last year Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova caught a bunch of flack from the media for appearing in Sao Paulo Fashion Week with what naysayers called "back fat," "love handles," and "cellulite." (944 of you took my Weighting Game poll, which asked, “What do you think about Karolina?” – 85% responded “If that's fat then I don't ever want to be thin. She looks hot!” and only 7% thought she’d let herself go. Looks like her butt makeup applicator just called in sick that day!)
In other (sadder) rear-end news, a 38-year-old former Miss Argentina and mother of twins, Solange Magnano, died from complications after cosmetic surgery...on her butt. Magnano suffered a pulmonary embolism (basically, a blood clot that travelled to her lungs) following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires. Huffington Post reported the beauty queen’s close friend Roberto Piazza as saying the procedure involved injections and the liquid "went to her lungs and brain."
"A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind," he said.
Not only is it so sad that women – even former Miss Argentinas – feel so unhappy with their bodies that they resort to having themselves cut open or injected, but look at the legacy she’ll leave behind to her children and the world. The last thing many people will remember is “She died from glute implant surgery.” A totally elective procedure. I may be unhappy with my butt dimples but I’ve forced myself to be resigned to living with them, especially when the alternative may be to die trying to smooth them out.
