Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne was too "bloated" to walk at the Victoria's Secret fashion show.

Male catwalk star Robert Konjic has claimed that the 22-year-old beauty wasn't in sufficiently good enough physical shape to represent the lingerie chain.

He explained to the Mail on Sunday newspaper: "They are famously strict - if you let go even a little, then they don't want you.

"So I wasn't surprised that Cara wasn't walking this year. I bumped into her at the British Fashion Awards and she looked very bloated."

Neither Cara nor reality TV star Kendall Jenner walked the runways for Victoria's Secret on Tuesday (02.12.14) in London.

Cara has previously walked for the show in 2012 and 2013, while

Kendall, 19 - who has yet to make her Victoria's

Secret debut - has admitted she would love to strut the runway for the lingerie company, calling it her

"dream".

By contrast, Cara's close friend and fellow British model Jourdan Dunn, 24, returned to the Victoria's Secret fashion show - the third time she has walked for the underwear brand.

A Victoria's Secret spokesperson has refused to comment on claims Cara was not included in the show because she was "bloated".