The Victoria's Secret 'Angels' demonstrate why they're worth their weight in gold.
BY Olivia Lidbury | 13 May 2011
In the event that you manage to scrub up well, a nearest and dearest might bestow the compliment: "You look a million dollars". But there is a rare breed of genetically-blessed creatures who actually are several million dollars, and their names are Miranda Kerr, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel and Erin Heatherton.
Three of the costly quintet (Lima, Ambrosio and Swanepoel), who all have day jobs as Victoria's Secret Angels, made the 2011 Forbes World's Top 10 earning models list, taking home a combined pay packet of around $15 million. Factor in the takings Orlando Bloom's wife Miranda Kerr, 28, and baby-faced beauty Erin Heatherton, 22, and the sum comes close to a mind-boggling $20 million.
And while putting in a shift at the Victoria's Secret 6th annual 'What is Sexy?' list in Los Angeles yesterday, the long-legged beauties showed the world exactly why they're worth it. Dressed in figure-hugging designs by Dolce & Gabbana and Hervé Léger, the girls made the name of the event seem like a rhetorical question (they could almost be heard muttering: "like, durr!").
But does $20 million worth of bodies equal $20 million worth of lingerie sales? Again, that seems like another rhetorical question...