Candice Swanepoel Satire

Kiersten Ruecke
Sarah Meinel
WRT 150
September 10, 2014

Your mouth waters as the salty buttery smell of the popcorn fills your lungs. After a few bites, you quench your thirst with your sweet tea and wipe the condensations right off the table. The day is finally here. Waiting with anticipation all year long is finally coming to an end. The TV is turned on to CBS and in six excruciating minutes it will be ten o’clock. But the excitement overrides the impatience. The popcorn bowl is now empty with the last few morsels of half popped kernels and the last few drops of your quenching sweet tea are left. The pit in your stomach is getting bigger; you can feel adrenaline coming over you. Then finally, over a year of waiting, it happens. The elaborate

Watching the models strut the sparkly runway in elaborate angel wings puts such a magical spell on you. Especially when THE angel comes out. Candice Swanepoel. The main Victoria’s Secret Angel. The embodiment of human perfection. Every mans dream and every women’s envy. What it must be like to know you have such a magical spell on people. Candice Swanepoel is now a household name in the fashion industry. For last years fashion show, Candice was given the honor to wear the ten million dollar fantasy bra. This has helped make Candice the “it” girl. She is the main Victoria’s Secret Angel, there are full page spreads and covers of her in the most prestigious fashion magazines such as Elle, Bazaar, and Vogue. But Candice did not come from wealth and glamour. This angel came from a cattle and dairy farm in a little city in South

I didn’t want to be a tourist.” (Candice on visiting brazil)
 “The first time was when I was 17. But a little while later, when I was working in Paris, I was about to give up modelling and move back home. Victoria’s Secret had asked to see me, so my agent told me that I should come to New York, meet them, and if they signed me up I’d move. And if they didn’t sign me, I was going to go back to South Africa.”

 “Yes, Derek. I grew up on a dairy farm. I did! Dairy and beef and forest and plantations. I don’t think my parents would have ever imagined I would go so far off the rails. In the beginning they were the ones who encouraged me to keep modelling because there weren’t many opportunities in South Africa for young people. But if I was ever homesick and wanted to come home, my mom was always strong and said I should stick it out.” (dairy farm)
 “It’s true. Other girls were lucky enough just to be born there. But I had to work for it. I had to learn the language, learn the land, and find the Brazilian boyfriend.”
 “Know why I learned Portuguese? I wasn’t going to have my boyfriend and his friends talk about girls around me. Oh no, honey, that’s not happening. Nothing gets past me