Victoria’s Secret might be the epitome of glam worldwide, but if that glitzy layer is scratched, all we find is pain, as claimed in a new report by Bloomberg News.

The report shows that cotton used in Victoria’s Secret briefs was actually picked by abused and unpaid children in Africa. Though the label claims ‘fair trade’ and boasts it by calling it good for women and good for the children who depend on them but the Burkina Faso cotton it uses doesn’t meet the labour standards, as thousands of children are exploited and forced to work in fair trade farms which produces it in the area.

According to Bloomberg report fait trade farmers told researchers that they didn’t pay the kids. The report reads, “This category of children is a problem on several levels, in terms of their social vulnerability on the one hand, and in terms of their status at work on the other. These foster children have an employee status,they are clearly asked to work, as expressed in the words of the producers, but they receive no remuneration, regardless of age.”

In return a statement by Victoria’s Secret says that they are taking these allegations very seriously and described such behavior against company’s values and the code of labour.