Victoria Secret - The Mother's Day Shoot That Went Too Far
4/28/202648 min
Hey Lifers!
Britt is living it up in Italy. It’s only been a week but she’s already tried to replace us. She’s gone on a blind-ish friend date and it didn’t exactly go perfectly.
Meanwhile Laura’s oldest daughter Marlie-Mae has a new arch nemesis from the community garden. What did your kid have to learn the hard way?
We need to talk about Victoria's Secret and whether children should ever be involved in the marketing of ‘sexy’ brands. Their Mother's Day campaign features model Elsa Hosk alongside her four year old daughter. Elsa is in revealing lingerie. Her daughter is in… a trench coat, a robe and her mum’s high heeled shoes. Victoria's Secret has since removed the carousel from their page, but the images are still on Elsa’s instagram. We walk through exactly what's in each photo, why we all felt uncomfortable when we saw it, and the much bigger question of whether this was an oversight or something far more deliberate; especially given Victoria's Secret's deeply tainted history with Jeffrey Epstein.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
- 00:00 — Britt is in Italy and went on a blind friend date
- 03:20 — The seagull attack
- 10:16 — Marlie-Mae’s community garden nightmare
- 14:30 — Victoria's Secret's Mother's Day campaign
- 27:09 — Les Wexner and the Jeffrey Epstein connection explained
- 33:22 — Was this an intentional decision or a genuine oversight?
- 35:00 — Should the model have said no? And where does responsibility lie?
- 35:55 —Does the brand even matter when a child is in an underwear ad?
- 42:00 — Suck and Sweet
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First 90 secondsBrittany Hockley· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hi, guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Brittany.
Speaker 1· Co-host0:13
I'm Laura.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:14
And guess what? I don't wanna brag, Laura, but you may have been replaced. [laughs] By who?
Speaker 1· Co-host0:21
[laughs] That's not a coming on.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:23
With who?
Speaker 1· Co-host0:23
I'm like, hey, sorry, I've kicked you out. I've replaced you.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:25
Sorry, Brit, but I'd like to just remind you that you're the one who's not in the room right now. [laughs] I'm here with the team, and you're on a screen. So I don't wanna scare you off, but, like, you're easier to turn off right now.
Speaker 1· Co-host0:37
[laughs] I don't wanna scare you off, but you've got the chop. I can just pull the internet plug- So- ... and you're gone skis.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:42
No, I'm not actually gonna replace you. No one could replace you, but I did the impossible and I made a new friend. I made- Aw, yay. I, um... It was really cute.
Speaker 1· Co-host0:55
New friends as an adult are worth celebrating, that's for sure.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:57
It is. It's, new friends as an adult, we all know it's hard. Look, we're not besties, but I did go on a friend date. I got set up on, like, I guess it was a blind date without it being a blind date. Hear me out. I'm very alone here, like very alone. I've told you guys before that all of Ben's friends, I mean, all Ben's teammates, all of their partners, like, they've got big families, or they don't speak English, or they don't live here and they travel. And anyway, I assumed that you would, like the WAG community, that you come into the WAG community and, like, there's just WAG meetups and WAG lunches