Victoria’s Secret Model with Lesbian Mom, Gay Dad Talks About Her Family

It’s turning into a video week around here, but I can’t help but share Victoria’s Secret model Josephine Skriver’s new video about standing up for her family—and how her lesbian mom had put out an ad seeking a gay dad to have a baby together.

Skriver recorded the video for Harper’s Bazaar’s new One Take series. Her activism on behalf of LGBTQ families started early, she explains, telling us, “At the age of four, I was the one dragging my family to the gay parade because I wanted to yell loud and proud.”

Skriver has been vocal about her family in the past, and is a member of Family Equality Council’s Outspoken Generation Program, which empowers those with LGBTQ parents to speak out for their families.

As a lesbian mom, I’ve often gained insight reading stories by children of other LGBTQ parents. Abigail Garner’s 2004 book, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, with its plethora of voices, is one I frequently recommend to new and prospective LGBQ parents. It was where I first encountered the idea that our kids must go through their own coming out process about their families, regardless of their own sexual orientation or gender identity. On an ongoing basis, COLAGE’s KidSafe blog, featuring the posts of older and adult children of LGBTQ parents, is on my must-read list.

Watch Skriver talk about her own story.