30 SHOWBIZ The Ottawa Sun n Thursday, November 11, 2010

The Secret

Victoria’s Secret Angels is out , top, Rosie NEW YORK — There are a Huntington-Whiteley, centre, number of men who would Marie-joelle , below and have paid almost any price parent Canadian Jessica for my backstage pass to this Stam, top left, wait to get event. In New York made up in advance of the I spent a morning this week Victoria’s Secret show at behind the scenes of the Vic- the Lexington Armoury in toria’s Secret fashion show, glamour. New York Wednesday night. where 30 of the world’s sexiest As for the models back- Left, Magdalena Frackowiak women were being preened stage, they all seem impervi- presents a creation during while sitting around in little ous to the frenzied swarm of the show Wednesday night. more than silk bathrobes. photographers around them. It’s no easy feat meeting the “For models, the Victoria’s Victoria’s Secret Angels. Not Secret show is like the Super just anybody can walk into the Bowl is for sports,” said Selita Lexington Armoury in mid- Ebanks, 27, who recently town Manhattan where the starred in rapper Kanye West’s show is being taped. (It will 34-minute filmRunaway . air Nov. 30 on CBS and in 185 I give her a doubtful look. other countries.) “I want you to know we’re wearing a ton of makeup,” she Guard dogs said in response. “We’re not “It’s like we’re walking into perfect, you know. We’re reg- NASA,” said the cameraman ular women.” with whom I shared the ele- What the Angels do may vator. We’d been sniffed by look easy, but walking down guard dogs and eyed by U.S. a runway perched on six- soldiers before being allowed inch heels created by Euro- in. pean shoe designer Giuseppe Backstage The fact that 29-year-old Zanotti and wearing five-foot at Victoria’s Secret Brazilian model Adriana Lima wings that weigh 20 lbs. is no n 17 makeup artists, 19 is wearing a bra encrusted breeze. hairdressers, 90 tubes of lip with 60 carats worth of dia- “The wing frames bounce gloss, 30 bottles of shimmer monds and 82 carats of on our backs, we’re always skin lotion, 40 cans of topazes and sapphires valued fighting with them,” said Ales- hairspray, 50 stylists. at $2 million — hello, reces- sandra Ambrosio. sion? — goes a little way to “I call my trainer in Brazil n Victoria’s Secret has four explaining the troops. and he makes me do butt lifts stores in Canada: two in ottawasun.com/vicsecret2010 It’s the 15th edition of the for an hour a day,” she said. Toronto, one in Edmonton monster show that pulls in “You see results right away. and one in Mississauga. Go online to see lots more 11 million viewers each year, Otherwise, I eat healthy and photos from the Victoria’s Secret fashion show a show that is the pinnacle of that’s it.” Lucas Jackson/reuters