For the Sake of Beauty

On November 9, 2011, 30-year-old Victoria's Secret Angel model Alessandra Ambrosio wore one 30-pound pair of gold wings on the run-way.

"It's really heavy," Ambrosio said after a team of four unharnessed her. "When I first put it on, I almost fell back, that's how heavy it was. You really have to put a lot of strength toward your shoulders to be able to hold that. But it's incredible. You can't say no to an outfit like that. Those wings are unbelievable."

Besides heft, the wings boast bling in the form of more than 100,000 Swarovski crystals. Victoria's Secret Fashion Show producer Monica Mitro called them "the most spectacular wings we've ever done."

"She was struggling to walk in them but she was like, 'If it looks good, if I look good, I'm wearing it,'" Mitro said. "She's in her underwear, she's wearing high heels, it's a bit of a precarious runway. So you really have to want something badly to wear something that heavy on national television."

"I never work out my back, I never work out my arms," Ambrosio said. "But I guess this week I'm going to have to lift some weights to be able to wear those wings on the runway."

It was no doubt that a job such as modeling can be difficult, but having the models wearing something so heavy just for the sake for selling the designers’ products was too extreme! Since these models were probably underweighted, they do not have the strength to carry these heavyweight materials, worst of all they even might get smashed! Sometime it would be better if the designers designed their merchandise in a more reasonable weight so that the people who were trying to sell them can actually advertising instead of suffering!