When I close my eyes and think about it, it's this hot, pink, glitter whirlwind of flashing

lights, loud music.

It's very technical.

Victoria's secrets spun up a fantasy world.

Women were sexually liberated, their bodies were celebrated, it all felt so empowering.

In the Victoria's Secret World, models aren't models, but heavenly angels.

Angels, thank you for taking time away from being intermediaries between God and mankind

to model lingerie.

But for some of the women under the white-hot lights, Victoria's Secret was a very different

place.

This is the real story of Victoria's Secret, directly from women who devoted themselves

to the brand.

I was so hungry and my body wasn't working.

I was not there.

The women who were keeping Victoria's many, many secrets.

He said that women only work out to look good naked, to have sex with men, like gross.

Just gross.

I'm Vanessa Gerberiades, and I'm Justine Harmon.

In our new investigative series Fallen Angel, we traced the origin story and meteoric rise

of Victoria's Secret, one of the most inescapable cultural and business phenomenons in American history.

The pink and white striped shopping bag with the ribbon handles, I mean, it's iconic.

We'll be talking a lot about the private man who's been at the head of the brand for

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