--- title: Doutzen Kroes: Model Bids Farewell to Victoria's Secret description: The model took a quiet leave in December despite the sudden announcement canonical: https://time.com/3721414/doutzen-kroes-quits-victorias-secret/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-24T23:02:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:10.737Z og:title: Doutzen Kroes Bids Farewell to Victoria's Secret og:description: The model took a quiet leave in December despite the sudden announcement og:url: https://time.com/3721414/doutzen-kroes-quits-victorias-secret/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77f83ed8af69e704/698780d806f2c18151334253/gettyimages_459986722-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3120 og:image:height: 1755 og:image:alt: Doutzen Kroes walks the runway at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show in London, England on Dec. 2, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Doutzen Kroes Bids Farewell to Victoria's Secret twitter:description: The model took a quiet leave in December despite the sudden announcement twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77f83ed8af69e704/698780d806f2c18151334253/gettyimages_459986722-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Doutzen Kroes Bids Farewell to Victoria's Secret by [Alex Apatoff / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Apatoff / People Contributor Feb 24, 2015 11:02 PM UTC  Doutzen Kroes walks the runway at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show in London, England on Dec. 2, 2014. Doutzen Kroes walks the runway at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show in London, England on Dec. 2, 2014.Karwai Tang—Getty Images by [Alex Apatoff / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Apatoff / People Contributor Feb 24, 2015 11:02 PM UTC Hot on the (very high, very shiny) heels of the PEOPLE-exclusive news that Karlie Kloss has left Victoria’s Secret, word comes that another Angel is turning in her wings. Doutzen Kroes, 30, a seven-year vet of the Angels, left the brand quietly in December — and they’re just now addressing her exit. As he did when the news of Kloss’s departure broke, Victoria’s Secret president and chief marketing officer Ed Razek took to Instagram to address fan questions. “After I posted the news about Karlie Kloss leaving VS I got a number of texts asking me why I hadn’t said anything about Doutzen leaving at the end of last year. Fair question,” [he writes](https://instagram.com/p/zV4nZLI0qZ/?modal=true). “The simple answer is I should have. Doutzen had a lucrative opportunity in Europe and it would have conflicted with her VS obligations. So, at her agencies \[sic\] request, we released her from contract. There was no conflict. No animosity. None of the nonsense I’ve read on Instagram. She had a great business opportunity, and I wanted to be fair to someone I adore and respect. That’s all. I honestly believe Doutzen is one of the most stunningly beautiful people in the world. And I always will. I have told her that many times. Now you know.” So though Kloss and Kroes remain on the [Victoria’s Secret Angel page](http://vsallaccess.victoriassecret.com/supermodels/), there’s no doubt that there will need to be some new (beautiful, well-coiffed) faces on the site soon. _This_ [_article_](http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2015/02/24/doutzen-kroes-quits-victorias-secret/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3721414/doutzen-kroes-quits-victorias-secret/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3721414/doutzen-kroes-quits-victorias-secret/"},"headline":"Doutzen Kroes Bids Farewell to Victoria's Secret","datePublished":"2015-02-24T23:02:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:10.737Z","description":"The model took a quiet leave in December despite the sudden announcement","url":"https://time.com/3721414/doutzen-kroes-quits-victorias-secret/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","celebrity","Victoria's Secret"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77f83ed8af69e704/698780d806f2c18151334253/gettyimages_459986722-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Apatoff / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77f83ed8af69e704/698780d806f2c18151334253/gettyimages_459986722-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Doutzen Kroes walks the runway at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show in London, England on Dec. 2, 2014.","caption":"Doutzen Kroes walks the runway at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show in London, England on Dec. 2, 2014.","creditText":"Karwai Tang—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3721414/doutzen-kroes-quits-victorias-secret/","name":"Doutzen Kroes Bids Farewell to Victoria's Secret"}}]}] ```