Four of Katseye’s six members walked the runway at the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 18 in Los Angeles, performing “Pinky Up” and “Animal” in matching pop-punk corsets and miniskirts before closing by walking the show themselves. The four who took the stage were Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel and Yoonchae Jeong.
The four who performed treated the night as a peak. Before the show, Lara called it “our Super Bowl. It’s really the girls’ Super Bowl,” and Megan said they rehearsed at 6 a.m. “because this means so much to us.”
Two of the six weren’t on the runway. In a statement issued February 20, 2026 through the group’s labels, HYBE and Geffen Records, Manon Bannerman has been on “a temporary hiatus from group activities to focus on her health and wellbeing” since then, with no return date.
Sophia went on hiatus August 7 and returns in January 2027. Lara has said of the group, “It’s nothing but love between us.”
Katseye was assembled on HYBE and Geffen’s competition series The Debut: Dream Academy, chosen from more than 120,000 applicants and a final pool of 20 contestants through three elimination missions, fan votes and a live vote in Los Angeles on November 17, 2023. Allure described the turn the contestants took overnight, “from being a team to being each other’s fiercest competition.”
The members have spoken about how little outsiders see of that. Speaking about the Netflix series Pop Star Academy: Katseye, Lara Raj said, “You don’t even know a percentage of it.” Back in June, Sophia Laforteza told Allure, “We’re not faking it… We really are sisters.”
