Behind the Scenes with a Victoria's Secret Angel

Brazilian supermodel Izabel Goulart has one thing to say to anyone who catches her on television tonight.

“Please don’t look at my butt,” she says with a laugh.

Good luck. That’s not so easy considering she's talking about the CBS telecast of last month's Victoria's Secret show. As we all know, Heidi Klum & Co. sashay up and down the runway in barely there lingerie. 

This was Goulart’s third VS show. But it’s the first time Goulart will be watching the final product with a nightclub full of strangers. She’ll be in Boston at the Estate to host the official viewing party.

“The last two shows I did for Victoria’s Secret, I watched with my girlfriends, but now there will be Red Sox and Patriots there,” the 23-year-old Goulart told me while she was being fitted for her party outfit (she’s going with a Dolce & Gabbana leopard-print dress and matching VS bra). “So, it’s going to be a little different.”

It will also be the first time she sees this year’s show. “You don’t really see what is happening when you are there,” she says. “We have hair and makeup retouching and making sure our clothes are perfect and everything is in place. So, they say ‘Go,’ and you’re on the runway, and then everything goes so fast.”

Being a VS Angel means being on the road for large chunks of time far from her native São Paulo, Brazil. “Victoria’s Secret is like my second family,” Goulart says. “But the hardest part about being an Angel is I spend time away from my mom’s food and away from my home with my five brothers and sister.”

But she did get to meet the Spice Girls this time around. The British pop band reunion kicked off with two performances during the fashion show.

“It was amazing,” Goulart remembers. “When I saw them I was like, ‘Girl power! Go, girls!”