Lingerie Model Quits Career After Studying the Bible

Kylie Bisutti became a Victoria’s Secret Angel in 2009 after beating out 10,000 other hopefuls and winning a search held that year. She said, “Victoria’s Secret was my absolutely biggest goal in life, and it was all I ever wanted career-wise, but the more I was modeling lingerie, and lingerie isn’t clothing, I just started becoming more uncomfortable with it because of my faith.” Citing her Christian faith — whatever that might consist of — as the deciding factor for leaving a career filled with notoriety and a high income-potential brands her to Christ’s faithful as a woman of principle and morality. However, secular society may brand her as judgmental and rigid. Nevertheless, this young woman exhibited the wisdom of a lady in abdicating what is biblically defined as unchaste and immoral.

This headline caught my attention — and not because it said “Victoria’s Secret” — because the decisive factor was the Bible — God’s Word. I have no idea what Bisutti’s faith in Christ consists of, but I do admire her for willingly leaving a profession she discovered was displeasing to God. There’s another Christian lady I know who worked in an industry that kept inching towards an equally immoral basis, and she also left her job. She was in management and did very well for herself, but the marketing and branding of the product she sold contradicted clear Christian principles, so she left a secure position in pursuit of godliness.

I can’t help but be encouraged by the conduct of such ladies as these. Their principles and conscience are not for sell. They refuse to bow down to conventional wisdom and cultural acceptance and compromise their faiths.

Peter wrote well about the godly conduct of Christian women:

Do not let your adorning be external — the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear — but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. (1 Peter 3:3-4)

“The hidden person of the heart.” What a line! When the Holy Spirit speaks, He really speaks! Young women today can take from these examples and this Scripture the encouragement and judgment of true beauty and not that which is superficial.

Ladies! You don’t have to show it all to have worth. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 6:16). Who resides in you is more important than what adorns the external. Having within you the Spirit of God (cf. Rom. 8:9) should compel the outward adornment to be that of dignity and chastity, and not that of what is cheap. 

Brotherly, Steven