Rain Dove: The model who is putting Victoria Secret models' faces on her own body
The American model said she was often rejected for modelling jobs as her face is considered 'too masculine'
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Your support makes all the difference.An androgynous model has hit out at Victoria Secret’s insistence on using women who apparently represent the “perfect human” by photoshopping models' heads on to photos of her own body.
Rain Dove said her face was often considered “too masculine” by the modelling industry.
She told the Huffington Post: “A lot of people feel like I would be a good parts model from [the neck] down. I have the double DD's, the height ... and I didn't know it was going to do so well.
“And a lot of people said that for them they felt like they could identify with the fact that they just buy these things and they look in the mirror and they feel like they don't look like that person in the catalogue.”
She said her goal was to show Victoria Secret that “they’re not just a brand, they’re a movement”.
“They have the ability to inspire young people all across the country, people from all age ranges really, to wake up every morning and feel good about purchasing Victoria's Secret products”, she added.
Dove has been outspoken about her rejection of traditional gender norms and identifies as an “agender” model.
She told Buzzfeed News in April: “The gender thing doesn’t exist; it’s a social construct you don’t have to fit into.
“I model as male, female, and everything in between. I model as all genders. I model as a human being.”
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