Model Barbara Palvin walks Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 6 weeks after giving birth
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Barbara Palvin walks the runway during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in California on Oct 18.
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Alisha Haridasani Gupta
- Barbara Palvin walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show nearly six weeks after giving birth to her daughter Sylvie, saying she was just doing what “everyone’s doing” and had healed with healthy food and light exercise.
- Her return was praised as “superhuman” and “iconic”, but it also sparked debate about unpaid maternity leave in the US and the pressure on women to “bounce back” quickly.
- Mothers’ advocates said her appearance could normalise an unrealistic standard, and argued that a truly radical image would be a visibly post-partum body, not a polished runway look.
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NEW YORK – Hours before the feathers, glitter and confetti extravaganza that was the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Oct 18, model Barbara Palvin said in an interview with Page Six that she was one day shy of being six weeks post-partum.
“I tell everyone: this is normal, to be back,” she said, while sitting in her make-up chair backstage. “Maternity leave is six to eight weeks. I’m six weeks tomorrow, so I’m just doing what everyone’s doing, and I only have to walk down a runway.”