WASHINGTON – A Victoria’s Secret model has traded the dream she worked to achieve since she was 14 for what she says is a more pious life dedicated to God and her husband.
Kylie Bisutti, 21, won the lingerie brand’s 2009 search for a new model to walk the runway at that year’s fashion show. Then a newlywed, she beat out thousands of other contestants for the honor, and now she’s giving it all up.
In manifesto she wrote on Live31.org — an online organization based around a Biblical passage describing a “wife of noble character” — Bisutti describes the heavenly calling she received to give up a career based upon physical beauty.
“I started my modeling career at the very young age of 14,” she writes. “It was always my dream to become a super model and to be a Victoria’s Secret model was my ultimate goal in life. I felt like I was born to walk the runway and at the age of 19 I achieved that goal.”
She goes on to describe enjoying the “hosted parties, dazzled red carpets” and other accoutrements that accompany a supermodel’s lifestyle.
“I selfishly desired the attention that I was getting and I gave in to worldly ways
