The reason why Gisele Bundchen was absent from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show revealed Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Eve Buckland For Dailymail.Com Published: 23:20, 17 October 2024 | Updated: 23:48, 17 October 2024 e-mail 3 View comments Gisele Bundchen 's absence from the revived Victoria's Secret fashion show this week left fans sorely disappointed.
But it has been revealed the supermodel icon, 44, who was one of the brand's Angels from 1999-2006, was indeed asked to rejoin the lingerie fold for the show - but declined the offer due to retiring from the runway in 2020. TMZ reports that Victoria's Secret reached out to Gisele's team in June when they began casting the show, with her agents 'politely declining' on her behalf, citing her retirement from catwalk modelling. Emmanuelle Alt - the former head of French Vogue and stylish for the VS show - reportedly tried to convince Gisele to come out of retirement, to no avail.
Gisele last worked with Victoria's Secret in 2023 when she modelled for the brand's Icons campaign. Gisele Bundchen's absence from the revived Victoria's Secret fashion show this week left fans sorely disappointed - and the reason for her no-show has been revealed (pictured 2005) Read More Gisele Bundchen, 44, almost spills out of her low-cut top She told O Globo in 2020: 'I never said I would retire, just that I would no longer do runways. I will never stop working.
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