Adriana Lima: In Her Summer Bikini Out Fit
Adriana Francesca Lima was born on June 12, 1981, a Brazilian supermodel and known to be “The World’s Most Voluptuous Virgin” by US GQ magazine.
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Adriana Francesca Lima Biography
Adriana Francesca Lima is a Brazilian model like Alessandra Corine Ambrosio who was born in Salvador, Bahia with the height of 5’10. In addition to her native Portuguese, she speaks English, French and a little bit of Italian and Spanish. Adriana is shy when she’s surrounded by boys when she was younger, not receiving her first kiss at the age of 17. She is a devout Catholic who goes to church every Sunday. This hottie girl is best known as Victoria’s Secret Angel since the year 2000. She is also an endorser of Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009.
At a young age Adriana Francesca Lima never thought of being a model although she had won many beauty pageants in her elementary years. However, she had a friend at school that wanted to enter a modelin g contest and did not want to enter alone, so Lima accompanied her. Both sent their pictures, and the contest sponsor soon asked Adriana to come out for competition. Soon after, at the age of 15, she entered and finished in first place in Ford’s “Supermodel of Brazil” model search. She subsequently entered the 1996 Ford “Supermodel of the World” contest and won in second place. Three years later, she moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After acquiring representation, Adriana Lima’s modeling portfolio quickly began to expand, and she appea red in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire.
As a runway model, Adriana Francesca Lima walked the catwalks for designers like Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton and Valentino. She also worked for notable fashion brands such as Bebe, Mossimo, Bulgari, De Beers, FCUK, Keds, Swatch, Versace and among others. Furthermore, she appeared in editorials of other fashion magazine such as Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, GQ, Arena, Cosmopolitan , and Esquire. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue that magazine for the year. She also modeled the 2005 Pirelli calendar and became the face of Italy’s cell phone carrier, Telecom Italia Mobile, a move that earned her the nickname; “the Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy.”
Adriana Lima is probably best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret. Her first fashion show for the company came in 1999, and since being contracted as an Angel in 2000, she has appeared on subsequent shows ever since. She is also seen in television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized. “Angel in Venice” comme rcial of 2003 with Bob Dylan and her solo Victoria’s Secret’s Super Bowl XLII ad, the single most-seen ad game, watched by 103.7 million viewers and in 2008 continued for her with hosting the “What is Sexy?” program for the E! Entertainment Network and a July tour for the BioFit UpLift Bra Launch, with stops in Long Island, Boston and Miami Beach. Topping the year off, Lima wore the “Fantasy Bra” for the 2008 Victoria’s Secrets fashion show. Lima skipped the 2009 Fashion Show due of her pregnancy and once again she’s back in 2010 wearing “The Bombshell Fantasy Bra” valued $2 million.
Adriana Francesca Lima has been romantically linked to musician/ singer Lenny Kravitz and Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein. In November 2007, it was confirmed that she was dating a Serbian basketball player Marko Jaric and planned on a large wedding in Salvador. Eventually, they eloped in a private civil ceremony in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on St. Valentine’s Day in February 2009 with plans for two separate weddings in their respective hometowns at the end of 2009 and applied for Siberian citizenship.
Adriana Francesca Lima does charitable work helping orphanage, “Caminhos da Luz” (Ways of Light) which is located in her hometown. She helps for the construction of the expansion of the orphanage and buys clothes to the little children. She is a girl who is being admire by most people who has the look, the attitude to help and inspired many people as we live in this kind of world, she’s simply a blessing!
Alessandra Corine Ambrosio
Alessandra Corine Ambrosio is a Brazilian model. She was born in Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on April 11, 1981. Both of her parents are of Italian and Polish descent. She was just eight years when she decided that she wanted to be a model, after seeing a picture of top cover girl- Karen Mulder in a magazine. At age 11, she had a cosmetic surgery to get her ears pinned back because she was always insecure of her large ears. Though two years later she suffered complications and it discourages her from getting plastic surgery again. As an early teen she enrolled at a modeling class and subsequently was entered into an elite modeling competition in Brazil and was offered an Elite contract after a year.
Her modeling job was the cover of the Brazilian magazine Marie Claire, and she followed other editorial work, but it was not long after that the Marcianos at Guess signed Ambrosio for their fall Millennium campaign in 2000. Not only this, she also worked with brands including Revlon, Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Rolex, Oscar de la Renta, Gucci, Escada, Rocco Barocco, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, as well as the Pirelli Calendar. She has walked catwalks for designers such as Prada, Laura Biagotti, Dolce and Gabbana, Fendi, Marc Jacobs and a lot more. Aside from this, she also appeared in numerous international magazine covers including Cosmopolitan, Elle, GQ, Marie Claire, Ocean Drive, Vogue and the only model to appear on the cover of Glamour in the United States in 2006.
Ambrosio’s best known collaboration is with American lingerie brand Victoria’s secret. She appeared in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion as well as she was the one selected as the first spokes model for Victoria’s Secret “PINK” line and became a contracted “Angel”. In 2005, she notably walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway wearing lingerie made entirely out of candy. She then garnered attention in the 2008 edition of the Fashion Show, walking down the runway with a gorgeous body only three months after giving birth to her first child- Anja Louise Ambrosio Mazur.
Alessandra Ambrosio’s angel status has brought her to the public’s attention, often being cited by the popular media as one of the world’s sexiest women. She was chosen as one of People magazine’s annual “100 Most Beautiful People in the World” with fellow Angels. Additionally, she is among the world’s top earning models.
She has made several television appearances notably a cameo as herself on HBO’s entourage along with Izabel Goulart; as guest judge on Project Runway season 2: Team Lingerie, and The Tyra Banks Show which she was a guest twice. In 2006, she had a cameo on the box office hit movie, Casino Royale.
The proud owner of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Alessandra Ambrosio would like to parlay her incredible modeling success into other areas, with entertainment being one major possibility. She would also like climbing the acting ranks until she’s able to work with her favorite directors Quentin Tarantino, and Tim Burton and her acting crush Johnny Depp. If the whole acting thing doesn’t work out, then she preferred to go to medical school. She also aspires to be a cardiologist.
Currently she is the National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, helping raise awareness for the unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system and raise funds for the ongoing research for its cure.