Candice Swanepoel went topless in her latest Instagram post, sharing a short clip of herself sitting on a table while Etta James’ “At Last” played in the background. She wore only bikini bottoms in the video, and her wet hair suggested she had just taken a swim.
The bottoms were from Tropic of C, the bathing suit brand Swanepoel launched in 2018. In her caption, she wrote, “A little past, a little present.”
The post fits neatly into the arc of a career that has moved between runway fame and swimwear design. Swanepoel became a Victoria’s Secret Angel in 2010, most recently walked in the October 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and appeared at the “A Night of Extra” Beauty Evening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on March 20, 2026.
That mix of old and new is exactly what the caption points to. Swanepoel is still drawing attention as a model, but she is also fronting her own label, using a social media post to tie the Victoria’s Secret era to the brand she built for herself.
What the clip makes clear is that Swanepoel is not treating those parts of her career as separate chapters. She is presenting them as one continuing story, with Tropic of C at the center of the present and the Victoria’s Secret years still part of the frame.
