Runway To Heaven? How Anorexia, Drugs & Sexualization Are Driving Models To Ditch Fashion For God

June 11 2013, Published 1:57 p.m. ET
Kylie Bisutti is is hanging up her high heels for the Lord -- and she's not the only sexy model embarking down this path.
In a new piece for New York Magazine’s The Cut, journalist Ruth Graham examines a new breed of models-turned-evangelicals, whose disenchantment of the realities of the modeling industry, which include eating disorders, drugs and selling of sexualization, lead them to the church – and Breaking Celebrity News has the details.
Nicole Weider was never a household name, but the Elite Model, who moved to Los Angeles from Salem, Oregon, was never fulfilled by her career in front of the camera, with a “Hometown Hotties” shoot for Maxim making her feel “humiliated” and a stand-in job for Adriana Lima at Victoria’s Secret disillusioning.
“The women, Weider’s idols, were shockingly skinny, and yet the photographer’s assistant bragged to her about retouching Gisele Bündchen’s thighs on site,” writes Graham.
“I just thought, ‘Wow, this is so false,’” Weider recalled recently. “After that I was like, ‘Wow, I have to share this news with everyone!'”
Finding God at 23 with the help of her friend, Former Miss USA contestant Sheri R