Brazilian Super Hot Model - Adriana Lima

Brazilian model Adriana Lima - the spokesmodel for Guess?, Victoria's Secret and Armani Jeans becoming one of the world's top fashion models, Adriana later branched out to acting, playing a role in the 2001 short film The Hire: The Follow.

Adriana Francesca Lima was born on June 12, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At the tender age of 13, Adriana entered the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest, where her unique beauty, derived from her Native-Brazilian, African-Brazilian, Portuguese, French, and Caribbean heritage, won her second place. Moving to New York at age 16, Adriana joined the Elite Model Management and further pursued her modeling career, landing a campaign for the fashion designer Anna Molinari's clothing line. However, it was her appearance in several Guess? campaigns that gained her the recognition that catapulted her to her status as one of the world's top fashion models. Since then, she has appeared in campaigns for Anna Sui Jeans, Bebe, Gasoline, Mossimo, Victoria's Secret, BCBG, Keds, and XOXO, and has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Vogue and Marie Claire. She consistently appears in the hyped Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, gaining recognition as one of the Victoria's Secret's Perfect 10. In her spare time, Adriana dedicates her services to help orphans in her native Brazil. She has appeared in the Italian TIM mobile Commercials.

Birth name: Adriana Francesca Lima

Date of birth: June 12, 1981

Place of birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Height: 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Green/Blue

Measurements: 34-23-33 in (86-58-84 cm)

Dress size: 34 (EU); 4 (US)

Shoe size: 9 (US)

Agencies: Viva Models - Paris

DNA Model Management

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Lumière Model Management

Yuli Models

MY Model Management

Famous for: Featured in a Vassarette billboard in Times Square Lumiere Models in Brazil VIVA Models in Europe.

Charity

Lima does charitable work helping with an orphanage, "Caminhos da Luz" (Ways of Light), located in her hometown. She helps with construction to expand the orphanage, and buys clothes for poor children in Salvador, Bahia.

Personal Quotes

"Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls."

"Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings."

"I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry...how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really."

"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. "

"Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself."

"Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. "

"I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous. "

"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."

"Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls."

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*Ethnicity is Native-Brazilian, African-Brazilian, Portuguese, French, Japanese and Caribbean.

*A favorite model of photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, she appears prominently in Von Unwerth's 1998 book "Wicked."

*Her favorite musician is Lenny Kravitz. She has also appeared in one of his music videos,"Yesterday Is Gone".

*She has helped financially and worked with orphaned children in Brazil for several years.

*She was raised by her mother, Maria da Graça Lima (social worker).

*Her father, Nelson Torres, abandoned his wife and Adriana when she was 6 months old.

*Stated that she's of African, Swiss, and Indian ethnicity.

*She lists "West Side Story" and "Central Station" among her favorite movies.