Barbara Palvin is getting praise for strolling the Victoria's Secret manner display in lingerie six weeks postpartum, but she doesn't desire it.
In multiple interviews, the Hungarian-born example downplayed the feat, saying it's average for new mothers in the US to be rear at activity inside a akin timeframe.
"In the US, maternity depart is six to eight weeks. I'm six weeks tomorrow, so nothing important here. I'm fair doing what all female does in America," the 33-year-old told USA Today rearward the scenes at the manner show, which took location in Los Angeles on October 18.
"And I lone have to stroll downward a runway," Palvin told Page Six.
In 2025, the US was the lone nation among the 38 OECD countries, including the UK, Australia, and Japan, to have no national paid maternity leave, according to the OECD Family Database.
New mothers in the US are entitled to up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, but they must encounter certain eligibility criteria. The new mother must have worked for their director for at smallest 12 months, worked at smallest 1,250 hours in the former 12 months, and their director must have 50 or additional workforce inside 75 miles of their job site.
Federal workers are mostly entitled to 12 weeks of paid leave, but personal companies are not legally required to pay workforce on parental leave. Some states, including California, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Maine, have paid family depart programs, but the bulk don't.
Data released this twelvemonth from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests mothers in the US took an average of 7.2 weeks off to attention for a new child.
Palvin, who has been wed to performer Dylan Sprouse since July 2023, gave commencement to her archetypal child, a female called Sylvie, on September 7.
Palvin was named a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2019. She archetypal walked the Victoria's Secret manner display in 2012. At the 2025 Victoria's Secret manner show, Sprouse told reporters that Palvin had damaged her ft four weeks before and was strolling the runway alongside a "half-healed foot."
The first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show took location at The Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1995. It was broadcast online for the archetypal period in 1999, and was so famous that the presenter location crashed.
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Kim Schewitz is a health newsman who covers our growing obsession alongside health optimization and -maxxing, and how it influences pop civilization and Big Business.Since 2023, she has interviewed dozens of doctors, researchers, and dietitians concerning their science-backed health advice, frequently focusing on the gut microbiome and the Mediterranean diet, and reported on the increase of young colon malignancy and how its impacting the lives of patients in their 20s, 30, and 40s. She has earlier written for VICE, The i paper, and GLAMOUR UK.
