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Jay Shetty PodcastVictoria's Secret Model Taylor Hill Reveals The True Behind-the-Scenes Life Of A VS Angel
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Taylor Hill on modeling, Victoria’s Secret pressure, and layered grief
- Taylor Hill recounts being scouted at 14, traveling internationally for modeling with close family support, and leaving high school at 15 to model full-time while later earning a GED.
- She explains how she booked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show after a multi-step audition process and describes the structured training and nutrition she used to prepare, while acknowledging the show’s role in promoting unrealistic beauty standards.
- She reflects on holding gratitude for her own positive experiences in fashion alongside a more critical understanding of the broader cultural impact, emphasizing that “two things can be true at the same time.”
- She shares an in-depth story of grieving her dog Tate’s T-cell lymphoma diagnosis and death, and how that loss led to building Tate & Taylor with a cause-driven mission including support for a veterinary cancer fund.
- She publicly discusses a past miscarriage for the first time, describing isolation, complicated emotions, and how supportive relationships (especially quiet, non-fixing presence) helped her process grief over time.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasHer early career required family support, rapid independence, and nontraditional schooling.
Taylor Hill describes being scouted at 14, signing with IMG, traveling globally while her mother (and at times her grandfather and sister) accompanied her, and ultimately leaving high school at 15 to pursue modeling full-time and later earning a GED.
She sees her learning as experiential rather than academic, without dismissing education’s value.
She explains she didn’t enjoy school, struggled to focus, and found working on set energizing; she frames her path as a “school of life,” while also noting she values education and that traditional schooling isn’t right for everyone.
Her Victoria’s Secret break came from preparation and prior runway experience as much as aspiration.
Hill recounts auditioning for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and booking it on her first attempt, attributing part of her readiness to having already worked runway shows for years and being familiar with the casting director.
She portrays behind-the-scenes VS preparation as structured and performance-oriented, but acknowledges its cultural harm.
She details training for the show with a trainer: HIIT/interval work, weightlifting, and nutrition planning, plus a period of avoiding gluten and alcohol; she emphasizes she approached it as health-focused for her body and warns against others trying to copy her to look a certain way.
She models how to reconcile personal positive memories with broader industry critique.
Hill holds two truths at once: she personally felt safe, excited, and grateful in the VS environment, while also recognizing the brand’s past lack of inclusivity and the unrealistic standards the show projected onto audiences and other models.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesTwo things can be true at the same time, you know what I mean? Sometimes emotions are parallel, and they're really just happening, one's happening here and one's also happening.
— Taylor Hill
I'll, I'll never move on from Tate's death. My grief will change for sure.
— Taylor Hill
I think to say, to, to get over something is such a harsh way of saying it, because I'll probably never get over it. I'll never really get over losing Tate. I can heal from it, and I can find, you know, peace with it, but those are two completely different things.
— Taylor Hill
Grief is like an ocean. Sometimes it's relentless. Sometimes it's calm. Sometimes the waves are huge and crashing. Sometimes it's completely still and beautiful and peaceful, and, you know, you're, you're able to just float.
— Taylor Hill
I needed to be alone. Um, I needed to, like, I needed to feel it. I needed to sit in it.
— Taylor Hill
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SPEAKERS
Taylor Hill
guestModel and former Victoria’s Secret Angel, and founder of the pet-focused brand Tate & Taylor.
Jay Shetty
hostPodcast host of On Purpose, author, and former monk who interviews guests on wellbeing and purpose.
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