Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Victoria's Secret's "ideal beauty" is 15 years old

12 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Spoken critique arguing that brands like Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch promote a narrow, harmful beauty ideal — exemplified by the claim that the ultimate beauty is a 15-year-old white blonde — and that this toxic beauty culture conditions women from a young age to feel perpetually inadequate and to purchase products out of fear. The speaker describes lifelong personal impacts: persistent messages that one is never pretty/skinny/thick-browed enough.

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The maker of Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie and Fitch. He said that the ultimate of Beauty is a 15 year old white woman with blonde hair. And that's a multi trillion dollar system. What toxic beauty culture does is let's create things that women should be afraid of. As soon as we get a woman afraid, she'll buy something. So there are things that I didn't even know I was supposed to be worried about as a woman. And it started when I was very, very young. The first signs are messaging that something on my body or with my appearance was somehow not palatable, not as beautiful as it could be. And you feel no matter how much you do, you are literally never pretty enough, skinny enough, not thick enough eyebrows. It is overwhelming and it is the life of an average woman.