Victoria's Secret Angel Martha Hunt, who is also a spokesperson for Free People, adds her western woman brand of sexy sizzle in a country where women have been caned in the last few years for adultery. L'Officiel Malaysia has always intrigued us with their provocations in this deeply Muslim country where activists from a coalition of eight organizations have formed the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality. Earlier this month, the coalition denounced the government's claim that child brides are rare in the country.

Citing statistic from United Nations’ reports, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) said there were as many as 15,000 Malaysians who were married off before the age of 19, contrary to the low figures given by the prime minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor at a function in the US yesterday.

The group highlighted that there is an even more worrying trend in the country, especially in poorer states, to marry off young girls to their rapists.

These facts are interesting because -- like Chinese women -- female entrepreneurship runs high in Malaysia.

Malaysia to Free People

Checking for a status pdate on last week's PETA action against Free People for refusing to stop the sale of angora after brutal videos of harvesting angora from rabbits were revealed, we note that the conflict was settled in the last 24 hours. Writing about the action last week, we didn't even think to look and see if Martha was the model behind the campaign. Woops!

Some 67,000 members sent emails to Free People, PETA said. Initially, Free People responded to the emails by claiming that the angora it purchases meets its cruelty-free standards, the the NY Post writes today that Free People will be out of the angora business by 2016.

Back to Martha, she is her gorgeous, sexy VS Angel self in Jack Waterlot studio shots, styled by Jumius Wong & Jack Wang. / Hair by Fernando Torrent; makeup by Yumi Lee