Barbara Palvin’s Post-Baby Victoria’s Secret Return Came With a Stroller, a Sheer Pink Mini and Zero Chill
Six weeks after welcoming daughter Sylvie with Dylan Sprouse, the model stepped back onto the Victoria’s Secret runway—and her husband was apparently on diaper duty.
Barbara Palvin did not ease back into the spotlight. She walked straight into it wearing a sheer pale-pink mini, matching lingerie and the kind of gold hoops that announce themselves before the person wearing them does.
The occasion was the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Los Angeles, where the 33-year-old model returned to the runway just six weeks after giving birth to her first child, daughter Sylvie. In other words: while most new parents are still negotiating sleep in forty-minute installments, Palvin was backstage getting glam for one of fashion’s most conspicuous catwalks.
Call it a comeback, call it a scheduling flex, call it Mother Angel. Whatever the label, the timing gave her appearance a jolt of celebrity drama that a standard runway return simply would not have had.
The runway return was a full-circle fashion moment
Palvin has been part of the Victoria’s Secret orbit for years. She made her debut for the brand in 2012, returned to the show in 2018 and was officially named an Angel the following year. She also walked in the 2024 and 2025 shows, making this latest appearance less of a surprise career pivot and more of a very high-glamour continuation.
Still, the six-week mark changed the temperature. Palvin’s look was designed for maximum Victoria’s Secret drama: a translucent pink dress over a coordinated bra-and-panty set, loose waves and oversized hoops bearing the lingerie label’s logo. It was soft, sugary and unmistakably on brand—the runway equivalent of putting a satin bow on a major life update.
She told Page Six Style backstage, “I tell everyone: This is normal. Maternity leave is six to eight weeks; I’m six weeks tomorrow, so I’m just doing what everyone [else] is doing. And I only need to walk down a runway!”
That line has the breezy confidence of someone who understands exactly how absurdly glamorous the situation sounds and is choosing not to over-explain it. Yes, the runway is technically just a walk. It is also a global fashion spectacle involving lights, cameras, lingerie, elaborate styling and the sort of professional polish that does not usually happen between newborn feedings.
Dylan Sprouse had the supporting-role assignment
Palvin did not make the return alone. Husband Dylan Sprouse was on hand, with the model telling Page Six Style that he was responsible for baby duty while she prepared for the show.
“My wonderful husband will be here tonight,” she said ahead of the event. “I don’t know what he’s planning — hopefully nothing, because he has to be taking care of our baby girl right now!”
Sprouse, naturally, offered a little public enthusiasm of his own. “Proud of my missus, jumping right into the vs fashion show post-birth. Built different. I don’t know where you find the energy but damn!” he wrote on Instagram.
He has already established himself as a committed member of the Palvin support team. Page Six notes that the former Disney Channel star previously brought cutouts of the couple’s pets to the pink carpet and delivered hamburgers directly to his wife at the show. This is not the discreet, stand-three-feet-back-and-clap school of celebrity marriage. This is the “I have arrived with props and possibly snacks” school.
For this runway appearance, though, his most important accessory was apparently a stroller. Victoria’s Secret teased Palvin’s participation with a video of her pushing one, captioned, “Motherhood looks good on you, @realbarbarapalvin. So does the runway—see you in LA.” The brand understood the assignment: take the new-mom update, give it a pink filter and send it down the catwalk.
Palvin has made the family chapter part of the fashion story
Palvin and Sprouse announced in May that they were starting a family, and she debuted her baby bump at the Cannes Film Festival in a feather-trimmed light-blue Miu Miu gown. That was a very different kind of fashion entrance—red carpet rather than runway, couture rather than lingerie—but the message was similarly clear. Her personal life was not arriving in the background; it was walking into the frame with her.
Sylvie was born on Sept. 7, with Palvin announcing the news alongside a joke about the timing: “We took Labor Day literally this year.” The couple’s ability to fold major milestones into a polished public narrative has been consistent without feeling overly solemn. Even the birth announcement came with a wink. The Victoria’s Secret return simply extended that tone into a much louder room.
There is also a long fashion history behind the moment. Palvin made her Prada runway debut at 17, then became one of the recognizable faces in Victoria’s Secret’s modern revival. Her return is part of a larger pattern of the brand placing established women and model mothers back at the center of its spectacle.
Jasmine Tookes walked last year while nine months pregnant. Heidi Klum returned eight weeks after giving birth to her son Henry in 2005 and five weeks after welcoming daughter Lou Samuel in 2009. Adriana Lima made her first post-baby runway appearance eight weeks after daughter Valentina was born in 2008, then returned two months after her second child in 2012.
Those examples turn Palvin’s appearance into more than a single glamorous night. They make it part of Victoria’s Secret’s ongoing fascination with the collision between motherhood and performance: the baby arrives, the model arrives, and somehow the wings are still on schedule.
The most 2026 detail was not the lingerie—it was the logistics
The image that lingers is not only Palvin in pink. It is the contrast around her: a new mother stepping onto a fantasy runway while her husband handles the practical assignment offstage. The glamour works because the ordinary details are visible at the edges.
Palvin even admitted she was nervous, saying, “I’m happy. I’m excited. I hope I don’t fall!” That is the kind of line that punctures the polished Angel mythology just enough. Behind the waves, hoops and carefully lit entrance is a person hoping not to trip in front of an audience.
And then she did what the show asked her to do: she walked. Not quietly, not apologetically and not as a footnote to her own family news. Six weeks after welcoming Sylvie, Barbara Palvin returned to Victoria’s Secret in a look that was part lingerie fantasy, part new-mom headline and entirely aware of the camera.
Motherhood did not replace the fashion story. At this show, it became the fashion story.
Kylie Jenner Just Stole the Victoria’s Secret Show in a $50 Million Fantasy Bra
The beauty mogul made her surprise Angel debut with the priciest Fantasy Bra in Victoria’s Secret history — while Timothée Chalamet watched from the audience beside Kris Jenner.
Kylie Jenner has spent years perfecting the art of the entrance, but Sunday night’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show moment still managed to arrive with a little shock value. The beauty mogul appeared on the runway for the first time in the brand’s most loaded piece of lingerie history: a Fantasy Bra valued at $50 million.
Because apparently a regular runway debut would have been too quiet.
Jenner’s surprise walk instantly turned the annual lingerie spectacle into a full Kardashian-Jenner family event. In the audience, watching from a prime seat, were her boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet, her mother and professional spectacle architect Kris Jenner, and Kris’ longtime beau, Corey Gamble. The visual was almost aggressively on-brand: Kylie in diamonds, Timothée looking on, and Kris positioned close enough to take in every camera flash.
The bra was less accessory, more infrastructure
The Fantasy Bra is not a costume detail you casually throw on before heading out the door. This year’s version is the first Victoria’s Secret Fantasy Bra since 2018, and according to Vogue and jeweler Jacob Arabo of Jacob & Co., it is the most expensive one ever made.
The centerpiece is a yellow diamond valued at $22 million. Around it: more than 4,400 additional diamonds, arranged in nearly every cut imaginable, including pear, heart, round, oval and marquise. The design comes from Jacob & Co.’s Rare Touch Jewelry Collection, which is built around the idea that precious metal can move with the body like fabric.
That is a very elegant way of saying the bra was engineered to sparkle from every possible angle.
Jenner paired the diamond-heavy look with a peekaboo thong, keeping the overall styling firmly in Victoria’s Secret’s familiar language of glitter, skin and theatrical confidence. But the real headline was the scale of the jewel itself. At $50 million, it makes the traditional “statement accessory” feel almost quaint. This was not a finishing touch. This was the plot.
Kylie is not a runway regular — which made the reveal land harder
Jenner is no stranger to cameras, campaigns or a strategically timed glam moment, but she has never been the most consistent runway presence in the family. Her first runway appearance came in 2011 for Avril Lavigne’s former label, Abbey Dawn. Two years later, she walked alongside Kendall Jenner for Sherri Hill and The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection.
Her more recent runway appearance was a considerably more polished affair: Jenner closed Coperni’s spring 2025 show at Disneyland Paris in an elegant strapless ballgown. That appearance played like a fashion-world cameo. Sunday night felt more like a coronation.
There is also a neat little family loop here. Kendall has walked in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show three times — in 2015, 2016 and 2018 — though she was absent from this year’s glitter-heavy lineup. Kylie, meanwhile, had already flirted with the Angel fantasy long before she wore the real thing.
Back in 2015, the Kardashian-Jenner sisters dressed as Victoria’s Secret models for Halloween. Kylie borrowed Candice Swanepoel’s cutout catsuit, while Kim Kardashian posted a thank-you to the brand for sending “actual runway looks and real wings” for the occasion. A decade later, Kylie got the actual runway, the actual wings and, naturally, the most expensive bra in the room.
From Halloween fantasy to luxury lingerie crossover
The timing also makes sense for Jenner’s current fashion orbit. She has become increasingly comfortable moving between beauty mogul, campaign star and high-glamour fashion fixture. In February, she starred in a Skims campaign, putting her in the visual universe of Kim Kardashian’s lingerie and shapewear empire.
Now she has added Victoria’s Secret to the résumé, which gives the moment a pleasingly competitive family undertone without requiring anyone to say the quiet part out loud. Kim has Skims. Kendall has the established Victoria’s Secret runway history. Kylie arrived wearing $50 million in diamonds and made sure her debut could not be mistaken for a casual guest appearance.
That is the Jenner method at its most efficient: show up less often, but make the appearance impossible to discuss as merely normal.
Jenner’s presence also helped make the 2026 show feel like the kind of pop-culture collision Victoria’s Secret has been chasing in its newer era. The runway included surprise appearances from major names including Gisele Bündchen, alongside returning favorites such as Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima. Bella Hadid opened the show, while the wider event leaned into the old-school Angel spectacle with a modern celebrity ecosystem attached.
In that lineup, Kylie was not just another famous person in a famous outfit. She was the surprise package — the person whose name was held back until the runway lights were already on.
And yes, Timothée was watching
Chalamet’s presence gave the moment its inevitable social-media subplot. Page Six reported that he was seated beside Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble as Kylie made her debut, placing the actor directly inside one of the most photographed family audiences imaginable.
The relationship has already made the pair a favorite subject of the internet’s celebrity analysis department, and a front-row appearance at a $50 million Fantasy Bra reveal is unlikely to reduce the attention. It is a particularly glossy kind of couple sighting: no dramatic red-carpet pose required, just Timothée in the audience while Kylie turns a runway into a family viewing party.
Neither the setting nor the styling suggested a low-key night. Kylie’s look was designed to be seen from the back row, the cheap seats and every phone held above the crowd. Timothée’s place beside Kris only sharpened the sense that this was not simply a modeling booking; it was a major Kylie Jenner event, complete with boyfriend cameos and momager proximity.
The Fantasy Bra has previously been worn by Victoria’s Secret royalty including Gisele Bündchen, Heidi Klum and Adriana Lima. Claudia Schiffer introduced the “Million Dollar Miracle Bra” in a 1996 ad campaign, while Klum became the first model to wear a bejeweled bra on the televised runway in 2001. Bündchen’s $15 million “Red Hot Fantasy Bra” held the record for the most expensive version until this year.
Now Kylie has entered that very sparkly lineage without spending years as an Angel first. She skipped the slow build and went straight to the diamond-clad headline.
Some runway debuts ask the audience to remember a new face. Kylie’s asked everyone to remember the number: $50 million, four thousand-plus diamonds, one very familiar family, and a boyfriend watching from the dark as she made the whole thing look almost effortless.
Jason Sudeikis Finally Names the Thing He’d Change About Olivia Wilde Split
Five years after their nine-year relationship ended, the Ted Lasso star says the lesson was painfully simple: stop expecting people to read your mind.
Jason Sudeikis has offered the rarest kind of breakup postmortem: one that does not require a subtweet, a revenge dress or a suspiciously timed vacation photo. His big lesson from the end of his nine-year relationship with Olivia Wilde? He should have communicated better.
That may sound almost aggressively reasonable for a celebrity breakup that has lived in the public imagination for years, but there is something striking about hearing Sudeikis say it out loud. During Sunday’s episode of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, the Ted Lasso star was asked what he would have done differently in the relationship. His answer was immediate and blunt: “I think it’s just flat-out communication.”
Then he made it more personal. “I could have communicated better with how I felt, how things were making me feel [and] how things make me feel,” Sudeikis said. Translation: feelings do not become less real because you leave them sitting in the drafts.
The breakup lesson is painfully unglamorous
Sudeikis, 51, went on to explain that keeping quiet does not make an uncomfortable feeling disappear. It simply turns the feeling into a future problem, preferably one that arrives at the worst possible moment and with a much larger invoice.
“If I’m feeling a certain way and I don’t talk about it, that doesn’t make it go away,” he said. He also called it “unfair” to assume another person should be able to read your mind, whether that person is a partner, a boss at Saturday Night Live or a line producer on a television show.
That widening of the lesson is very Sudeikis: take the intimate relationship autopsy and turn it into a workplace seminar. But it also makes his point more interesting. He was not presenting communication as a magic trick that would have saved the relationship. He was talking about a habit he wishes he had developed sooner — saying what was happening internally before everyone else had to guess.
“How do you convey those ideas quicker?” he asked. It is less a grand romantic revelation than a brutally practical one. The kind of sentence people say after years of realizing that “I’m fine” is not a communication strategy.
Five years later, the emotional math has changed
Sudeikis and Wilde began dating in 2011 after meeting at a Saturday Night Live party. They became engaged in 2013 and welcomed two children: son Otis Alexander in 2014 and daughter Daisy Josephine in 2016. They parted ways in 2020 after nearly a decade together.
In the interview, Sudeikis was asked whether he understands the breakup differently now than he did at the time. His answer came wrapped in a very specific piece of heartbreak arithmetic: the idea that getting over something takes half as long as the relationship itself. For a 10-year relationship, he said, five years would be “20/20.”
It is an extremely dad-joke-adjacent way to describe emotional distance, but the timing is notable. The relationship ended in 2020, meaning Sudeikis is now speaking from roughly the point he described — far enough away to see the shape of what happened, but not so far away that the experience has become irrelevant.
That is the difference between a fresh breakup statement and a later reflection. In the early aftermath, everyone wants a villain, a timeline and a single moment when the romance supposedly went off the rails. Years later, the story can become less cinematic and more recognizable: two people who shared a life, failed to say some things clearly enough, and had to learn how to remain connected as parents after no longer being partners.
He is not dragging Wilde — which is almost the twist
Sudeikis did not use the conversation to take a swipe at Wilde, who directed Don’t Worry Darling and has continued working in film. Instead, he spoke warmly about her career and said he was “thrilled for her.” He also called her “very good” at her job.
That praise matters because celebrity exes are often expected to perform one of two roles: the wounded innocent or the enlightened best friend. Sudeikis lands somewhere less satisfying and more human. He acknowledges his own shortcomings without turning the relationship into a self-help brand, and he speaks positively about Wilde without pretending the split was a cute little chapter everyone giggled through.
“I feel very fortunate doing what I’m supposed to be doing,” he said. “But going through all that has allowed me to see when other folks are going through something similar.”
There is a quiet shift in that sentence. The relationship is no longer just something that happened to him. It has become a lens he uses to recognize pain in other people. That is not exactly an apology, and it is not a reunion announcement. It is the more complicated middle ground celebrities rarely offer because it does not fit neatly into a headline.
The public has had plenty to track since the split. Sudeikis was romantically linked to Keeley Hazell from 2021 to 2022. Wilde dated Harry Styles from 2021 to 2022 and was later linked to actor and former basketball player Dane DiLiegro in 2025. She has since moved on with Casper Jopling, according to Page Six.
But Sudeikis’ interview is not really about who came next. It is about what remains after the glamorous part of a breakup has burned off: co-parenting, professional respect, old patterns and the uncomfortable realization that silence is not the same thing as peace.
For all the chaos that tends to surround famous former couples, his conclusion is almost offensively sensible. Say what you feel. Say it sooner. Do not assume the person beside you has a psychic subscription. And if you fail at that, at least have the humility to learn the lesson without making your ex carry the entire story.