Children walk in Victoria’s Secret-style lingerie during a fashion show at a shopping mall in Chengdu city (Picture: Rex/ImagineChina)

A Victoria’s Secret-style catwalk show with child models has caused controversy in China.

Young girls dressed in bikinis and fluffy underwear have been pictured walking the runway at a show in a shopping centre in Chengdu, China’s Sichuan Province.

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The child models are also sporting full make-up and their lingerie is accessorised with feathers, jewels and even wings – just like the famous Victoria’s Secret angels.

The girls, some of whom are believed to be as young as five-years-old, take to the catwalk in small two-pieces and headresses as people in the audience take photographs.


Some of the girls are thought to be extremely young (Picture: Rex/ImagineChina)

Chinese children walked the Victoria’s Secret-style show in a shopping mall in Chengdu city (Picture: Rex/ImagineChina)

The show attracted criticism from many on social media.



One user on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, said: ‘I do not support children to participate in such activities too early!’

Another added: ‘I would rather my daughter play in mud.

The show has received a lot of backlash (Picture: Rex/ImagineChina)

The show mirrors the big Victoria’s Secret catwalk (Picture: Rex/ImagineChina)

‘I do not want to let her wear bikini and then twist the body with a variety of shapes to please the audience.’

And somebody else commented: ‘If I had a daughter, I’d never let her.’

The girls wore underwear and feathers (Picture: Rex/ImagineChina)