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, who is also actor Leonardo DiCaprio's ex girlfriend, 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 news and popular culture site Motto. "I look back like, 'Really?'"
![Heatherton (right) on the Victoria's Secret catwalk with models Doutzen Kroes and Candice Swanepoel. Photo / Getty](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/WOV6MTIY2JTWEM77CH6U4PQQSM.jpg?auth=6b54b544687e814aec79608f7582846ae476705e285e19b51e7d34e8e1b07a5c&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
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."