Valentina Sampaio announces she will be Victoria's Secret's first openly transgender model

Model Valentina Sampaio has announced she's making history as the first transgender model to be featured in a Victoria's Secret campaign.

Sampaio, 22, will be featured in Victoria Secret's new Pink campaign, which will be released later this month, her agent Erio Zanon told USA TODAY.

USA TODAY has reached out to Victoria's Secret for comment.

The model recently shared a photo of herself in a bathrobe, teasing she was "backstage" with Victoria's Secret Pink brand using the hashtags "#new #vspink #campaign."

"Never stop dreaming," she added in a separate Instagram caption. "#representatividade #diversity... ?????"

Sampaio previously made history as the first transgender model to pose for Vogue on the cover of Vogue Paris in 2017.

“The world has taken huge steps for transgender people in recent years,” Sampaio told BuzzFeed News at the time. “My cover is another small step — an important step that shows we have the force to be Vogue cover girls. The fashion industry is an instrument to raise flags promoting diversity, where things are more fluid and beauty evolves. Fashion is a world that’s freer.”

She also called on industry professionals to create more opportunities for transgender people.

“It’s not the gender of a person that determines your character or whether you’re good at something or not," she added in the interview. "Many times transgender women find the doors are already closed for them professionally, which only marginalizes us further — but everyone has something to show.”

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"Orange is the New Black" actress Laverne Cox cheered Sampaio on in her Instagram post comments: "Wow finally!"

"Stunning ????????????" wrote fellow model Lily Aldridge.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Victoria's Secret books first openly trans model, Valentina Sampaio