Former Victoria’s Secret Angel Kylie Bisutti Says ‘I Felt Like a Piece of Meat’

    When Kylie Bisutti was 19, she entered a model search and was chosen from among 10,000 women to become a Victoria’s Secret Angel, the beautiful supermodels who serve as the lingerie line’s brand ambassadors.
Bisutti retired her wings a few years later. At the time, Bisutti said, she wanted to pursue more wholesome modeling jobs because she was a Christian. But in a new interview in the New York Post, Bisutti explains why she decided to turn her back on the catwalk for good.
“I was being paid to strip down and pose provocatively to titillate men,” she said in the interview appearing on the paper’s website Wednesday. “It wasn’t about modeling clothes anymore; I felt like a piece of meat.”

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The former model, now 23, says she was hit on constantly by photographers and male models.
“Once, a photographer actually pushed me up against the wall and tried to kiss me,” she said in the Post interview.
In the interview  Bisutti says that when it came to Victoria’s Secret, she and other models were encouraged to play down relationships unless they were married to celebrities because “I was supposed to be flirting with everyone all the time.”
Victoria’s Secret wouldn’t comment on that allegation.

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Bisutti lives in Montana with her husband and she says life outside the limelight is sweet.
In her  new book, “I’m No Angel,” Bisutti says she wants women around the world to know beauty is not about looks but about what’s in someone’s heart.
“Turns out God had a plan all along. I’ve never been more content,” she said.

Will Smith and Son

In the upcoming science fiction film "After Earth," our home planet goes through some serious changes over the next 1,000 years. So it's fitting that the film's stars, actor Will Smith and his son Jaden, would take some time to envision what the future of Earth might entail.

In a Google+ Hangout yesterday (April 23), the stars of "After Earth" joined SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, futurist Ray Kurzweil, Alexandra Cousteau and a group of students to discuss what the planet Earth might look like in the next millennium. The event, sponsored by Columbia Pictures, was billed as "After Earth Day" and came one day after the annual day to celebrate the Earth.

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"It looks like great entertainment, but it raises some profound issues (about the future of the planet)," said Kurzweil, the director of engineering for Google and moderator of the discussion said of the movie. (See Photos of 'After Earth')
"After Earth" explores the relationship between a father and son — played by Will and Jaden Smith — after they crash-land on Earth 1,000 years into the future, after humans have deserted the planet to live in space. A "cataclysmic" event forced all humans to leave Earth, leaving the planet to be overrun by other, unfriendly species, according to a movie description released by Columbia Pictures. The film — directed and co-written by M. Night Shyamalan — launches into theaters in June.
"With this film it was such a perfect collision of art entertainment, education and a posing of fantastic questions," Will Smith said during hangout. "As an artist, this film does exactly what I always dreamed to be able to do with entertain and to also be able to pose interesting questions."
Smith went on to explain that shooting the movie helped him and his son start to understand how human activity influences the planet.
"I feel like I really saw some true beauty in the world after shooting in Costa Rica," said Jaden Smith. "After that experience, it really showed me how important it is to save the world."
Alexandra Cousteau, a filmmaker and granddaughter of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, also expressed her concern for the planet. She explained that the Earth today is in a vulnerable position, but by using technology and enthusiasm, a new generation can start to change the Earth for the better.
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of the private spaceflight company SpaceX and chief of the Tesla electric car company, said he thinks that these issues could be motivation for humanity to start moving away from Earth and into space.

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"I think we want to be a space-faring civilization," Musk said during the event. "Either we're a space-faring civilization or we're going to be bound to the Earth until some kind of extinction event (occurs)."
To Musk, the idea that humanity can leave the Earth to create a new human life elsewhere in the universe is "inspiring" and "exciting."
Other panelists were more interested in finding new and different ways to help combat the effects of global climate change.
"I have faith in our generation," one of the eighth graders said. "I think that we can help this earth. I'm sure we can (find a way to) not waste this planet and go to a different planet. I'm optimistic that we can save this planet and do the right things."