Where are those Victoria's Secret curves? How Angels off the runway are rather less buxom than you think

PUBLISHED: 12:37 EST, 25 November 2013 | UPDATED: 16:12 EST, 25 November 2013

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Victoria's Secret Angels are known for their feminine curves, but pictures of them off the runway seem to indicate their cleavage is merely a product of a very good push-up bra.

Indeed, they may look like buxom babes when dolled up in the Victoria's Secret catalog, but it seems most of these women are slender and curveless when left to their own devices, which goes to show that the brand's lingerie really does work.

Adam Levine's fiancee Behati Prinsloo, for instance, showed off her very slender frame in a light pink bikini on a recent trip to St Barts, displaying an almost completely flat chest.

Miracle bra: Victoria's Secret Angels like Behati Brinsloo (left) are known for their curves, but pictures of them off the runway (right) seem to indicate their cleavage is merely a product of a very good push-up bra

Svelte: When Adam Levine's fiancee Behati Prinsloo, 24, attended the Victoria's Secret after party, her body-hugging pink dress fit loosely over her barely-there curves and cleavage

And at the Victoria's Secret after party, her body-hugging pink dress appeared to fit loosely over her barely-there curves.

Indeed, while the 24-year-old's cleavage seemed to spill out of her bra on the runway, it was all but invisible just hours later.

The photos reveal just how slender the Namibian model is, with a body usually seen on an editorial model rather than a lingerie model.

She isn't the only Angel hiding Victoria's real 'secret'; Karlie Kloss also manages to make her super slim frame appear curvaceous on the runway.

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The six-foot-one supermodel - who has starred in high-fashion ads for designers like Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen and Dolce & Gabbana - showed off her cleavage in a white and yellow lace push-up bra during the annual lingerie fashion show.

Just a month before, however, the 21-year-old displayed not even a hint of curves when she attended a New York Fashion Week event in a white satin dress.

Cara Delevingne is another Angel whose curves play a disappearing act when she's off the Victoria's Secret runway.

Disappearing act: Karlie Kloss, 21, also manages to make her super slim frame appear curvaceous on the runway (left), compared to how it looks normally (right, at a New York Fashion Week event in September)

Body makeover: Lily Aldridge is no stranger either to the transforming powers of a push-up bra on the catwalk (left). Her narrow frame is apparent at the Costume Institute Gala in May (right)

The 21-year-old It girl looked buxom in a black corset at this year's show, wearing a sheer dress over her lingerie that gave the illusion of added curves.

But pictures of her off the runway tell a different story.

Indeed, in a snap of her at the Victoria's Secret after party last year, the British beauty appears to have more of a boyish frame than a voluptuous one, with slim hips and a lack of cleavage.

The supermodel has even admitted that her frame is not as womanly and voluptuous as it is made out to be on the Victoria's Secret catwalk.

She told i-D magazine earlier this month that her biggest insecurity is 'my body, because I'd like to be curvier.'

Inconsistent: Jessica Hart's perky cleavage on the Victoria's Secret runway makes her look super busty (left), but at the Valentino show at Paris Fashion Week, her purple gown hung off of her narrow chest (right)

Spot the difference: Erin Heatherton looked well-endowed on the runway in a light blue lacy bra and underwear (left). At an event in Sydney this summer, however, her curves were all but invisible (right)

Transformation: Hilary Rhoda is all bouncing cleavage at the fashion show (left) but her curves disappear off the runway (right, at an event on November 11)

Lily Aldridge, who walked her first Victoria's Secret show in 2009, is no stranger either to the transforming powers of a push-up bra.

The 28-year-old wife of Kings of Leon's Caleb Followill looked positively curvaceous during the fashion show, highlighting her chest in a baby pink ruffly bra.

Off the catwalk, however, her slim frame was made apparent when it was swamped in a golden gown at the Costume Institute Gala in May.

Erin Heatherton and Doutzen Kroes also display noticeably slimmer bodies when not donning Victoria's Secret lingerie.

Faking it: 21-year-old Cara Delevingne looked buxom in a black corset at this year's show (left). Off the runway, however, she has more of a boyish figure (right)

Deceptive: Dutch beauty Doutzen Kroes, 28, may have appeared busty in her bondage-inspired bra at the Victoria's Secret show (left), but her cleavage was decidedly nonexistent at an event on October 22 (right)

21-year-old Erin looked curvy and well-endowed on the runway as she strutted her stuff in a light blue lacy bra and underwear.

But when she made an appearance at the Fashion Festival in Sydney, Australia, in August, the Illinois native could have been a different woman.

Not only was she dressed very demurely in a turtleneck dress and glasses, but she also seemed to have little to no curves.

And Dutch beauty Doutzen Kroes, 28, may have appeared busty in her bondage-inspired bra at the Victoria's Secret show, but her cleavage is decidedly nonexistent in a photo of her at an event on October 22.

Victoria's Secrets: Push-up bras and body make-up are some of the tricks that help the supermodels appear instantly busty on the runway

Push-up bras are undoubtedly a major factor in the supermodels' ability to appear busty, but it's not the only secret to their curves.

In 2010, former Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks told the New York Daily News that body make-up helps them look instantly curvaceous.

'It's all about creating the illusion of this amazing body on the runway,' she explained. 'People don't realize that there are about 20 layers of make-up on my butt alone.'

And 29-year-old Angel Lindsay Ellingson told Fashionista in September that she likes to 'add curves' to her slim frame before each fashion show.

'I think it's sexier and more feminine to be more full,' she said. 'So I add like almond butter, peanut butter, protein shakes to my diet, just to feel a little sexier and curvier.'

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Jen-tumz, London, United Kingdom, moments ago

And that's why I buy these bras ;)

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JohnDoe91, Dallas, 5 minutes ago

Give me a thin, athletic woman with an A or B cup over a fat C or D any day.

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JoJo, London, United Kingdom, 14 minutes ago

Why is Cara wearing rubber gloves?

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Jonelle, sf, United States, 21 minutes ago

A lot healthier and better role model to young girls than image - but they have all gotten so rail thin!

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Sanity, England, United Kingdom, 41 minutes ago

Its been a triumph of marketing that an underwear company has become famous by using models with nearly no secondary sexual characteristics - not one of these models actually has a 'sexy' body... in fact, most of the above pictures are really quite disgusting to look at.... mad world...

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mbu, Malta, Malta, 1 hour ago

That is why they call them wonderbra.. cause you wonder where they went!

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mbu, Malta, Malta, 1 hour ago

That is why they call them wonderbra.. cause you wonder where they went!

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ChristinaRoger, Muri, Cook Islands, 1 hour ago

How has this Margot P. been a woman on this planet and only JUST discovered how push-up bras work? It's not about "smoke and mirrors" or deceit of any kind. women are told this is sexy, so it's what we do to our bodies to feel better. I'll wear whatever I like, thank you very much.