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Less than a week after Victoria's Secret Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek shared his offensive thoughts on why the brand excludes plus-size and transgender models in VS shows, CEO Jan Singer abruptly resigned. According to Bloomberg, she only spent two years with the company. Here's the tea.

This is a photo from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2001.

victorias secret fashion show 2001
photo: Reuters

This is a photo from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2018.

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Aside from the quality of the photo and the addition of colors onto the runway, there's very few differences. Every woman on the runway has the same body type: leggy and size 2 or smaller. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if VS just cloned models year after year.

In fact, the brand's lack of diversity and refusal to evolve has caused some people, like model Robyn Lawley, to call for a boycott of the fashion show.

I have started an online petition -link in bio ???? JOIN ME and lets help change the minds of Victoria’s Secret to be more diverse and inclusive of body shapes and sizes on their runways! Victoria Secret have dominated the space for almost 30 years by telling women there is only one kind of body beautiful. - you can read more in the link of my bio why it’s so important to encourage diversity for our future daughters sake. Until Victoria’s Secret commits to representing ALL women on stage, I am calling for a complete boycott of this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. It’s time Victoria’s Secret recognized the buying power and influence of women of ALL ages, shapes, sizes, and ethnicities. The female gaze is powerful, and together, we can celebrate the beauty of our diversity. It’s about time Victoria’s Secret celebrated the customers that fuel its bottom line. Will you join me? 1 Sign the petition! 2 Encourage your friends not to tune in or attend the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show share a photo of yourself on Instagram, as you are (not airbrushed and beautiful), use the hashtag #weareallangels to share what makes you uniquely beautiful, please tag me so I can see (@robynlawley) and @ThirdLove For every person who shares a post with #weareallangels hashtag, ThirdLove will donate one bra to @isupportthegirls (a national non-profit that collects and distributes bras to homeless women and girls around the country !!!)

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Of course, Lawley's issues with Victoria's Secret only reflect a wider dissatisfaction of the brand as a whole. Millennials are not into the brand's narrow perception of beauty and thus, sales and stock prices have been declining over the past few years.

The fashion show is just a part of it.

The thing is: It's not that the company is just behind the times when it comes to including body diversity on the runway, it just has no intention of changing or evolving as a brand.

Case in point: The brand's 70-year-old Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek told Vogue that the company has already made strides when it comes to diversity, but it doesn't intend to get too diverse because the show is a "fantasy." And obviously nobody wants to see anyone other than a size 2 blond woman in their fantasy, OK?

Ed Razek
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"It’s like, why doesn’t your show do this? Shouldn’t you have transsexuals in the show? No. No, I don’t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It’s a 42-minute entertainment special. That’s what it is." he said in the interview.

"If you’re asking if we’ve considered putting a transgender model in the show or looked at putting a plus-size model in the show, we have," he said. But, he added, "We market to who we sell to, and we don’t market to the whole world."

So, basically VS only markets to one type of woman. Got it.

A week after he made those comments, the company's CEO, Jan Singer stepped down from her position after just two years in the role.

People are speculating about her reasons for stepping down. Some say she's taking the fall for Razek after his controversial comments.

Others think it's due to the declining sales.

Some are even accusing her of running the company into the ground. Yikes!

One thing is for sure, if Victoria's Secret doesn't drop Razek and get with the times, it'll lose its market share to companies that actually do have everyday women's interests in mind (i.e., Aerie, Savage X Fenty, ThirdLove).

*Sips tea.*

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