Karlie Kloss is opening up about her departure from Victoria's Secret: “I didn’t feel it was an image that was truly reflective of who I am.”
Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Victoria's SecretThe 26-year-old model suddenly stopped modeling for the lingerie brand in 2017, offering no explanation, but now, she's speaking out. In a new interview with, Kloss, who enrolled in New York University's Gallatin School to study feminist theory in 2015, said she learned that VS didn't align with her new feminist views.
"The reason I decided to stop working with Victoria's Secret was I didn’t feel it was an image that was truly reflective of who I am and the kind of message I want to send to young women around the world about what it means to be beautiful," she tells the magazine.
"But I did not lose out on jobs. If anything, the more I exercised the power of my voice, the more I earned respect from my peers. And I earned more respect for myself," she adds."Only now do I have the confidence to stand tall -- all 6ft 2in of me -- and know the power of my voice."
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