Adriana Lima

The US Trends | Adriana Lima | Adriana Lima is a Brazilian model, best known as a Victoria//'s Secret Angel since2000,and as a spokes-model forMaybelline cosmetics from2003 to2009. Adriana Lima was born in Salvador,Bahia,Brazil onJune 12,1981.At the age of 15, Lima finished 1st in Ford//'s "\\Supermodel of Brazil" competition,and took 2nd place the following year in the Ford "\\Super-model of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in NewYork City.Since2005, Adriana Lima has ranked in the top 5 of Forbes//' lists of the 20 highest-earning models in the world,and in2006 ranked No. 99 on the Forbes Celebrity100. Adriana Lima is married toSerbian basketball player MarkoJarić.

Adriana Lima never thought about being a model,although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school.However, Lima had a friend at school who wanted to enter a modeling contest and did not want to enter alone,so Lima entered with her.Both sent in pictures,and the contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for the competition.Soon after,at the age of 15, Lima entered and finished in 1st place in Ford//'s "\\Supermodel of Brazil" model search. Lima subsequently entered the1996 Ford "\\Supermodel of the World" contest and finished in 2nd place.Three years later, she moved to NewYorkCity and signed with Elite Model Management.After acquiring representation, Lima//'s modeling portfolio quickly began to expand,and she appeared in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire.As a runway model, Lima has walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang,Giorgio Armani and Valentino,among others. Adriana Lima became a GUESS??? girl in2000,appearing in that year's fall ad campaign. Lima also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess??? Images.

Adriana Lima continued to build upon her portfolio,doing more print work for Maybelline,for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from2003 until2009,the same year she appeared in the company//'s 1st calendar,a limited edition run also featuring Kemp Muhl,Jessica White,Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang.Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Armani, Versace, BCBG and Louis Vuitton. Lima also appeared on the covers and in the editorials of other fashion magazines such as Harper//'s Bazaar, ELLE, GQ, Arena, Vogue, V, Esquire and French Revue des Modes.Her April2006 GQ cover was the highest selling issue that magazine for the year. Lima also appeared in the2005 Pirelli Calendarand became the face of Italy//'s cellphone carrier, Telecom Italia Mobile,a move that earned her the nickname,"\\the Catherine Zeta-Jones ofItaly."

InFebruary2008, Adriana Lima was featured on the cover of Esquire, re-creating the classic1966 Angie Dickinson cover on Esquire's 75th anniversary along with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Selita Ebanks. Lima appeared only in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels. In February 2008, she was chosen to be the face of Mexico's Liverpool department store chain and launched the partnership with a press conference, runway show, and summer campaign. Lima returned to the high fashion runway in 2009, walking for Givenchy. That same year, after visiting Turkey, Lima signed a contract with Doritos to appear in print campaigns and commercials which began airing in Turkey that April. Lima was also one of the faces of Givenchy for the Fall/Winter 2009 season, alongside Mariacarla Boscono and Iris Strubegger. Lima is one of the 2 faces of Blumarine's Fall/Winter 2011 season.

In2011, Adriana Lima signed a deal as a spokeswoman for Megacity by Votsu,a Brazilian social gaming company, to appear in their commercials. Lima also became the face of Brazilian luxury brand, Forum for there F/W and S/S seasons. Adriana Lima has worked with the most established photographers in fashion such as Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matidin, Vincent Peters, Mario Sorrenti, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and David Sims.

In2006, Adriana Lima ranked as the fifth highest paid supermodel.In 2007and 2008,she ranked as the world//'s 4th highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine.

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, opening the show in 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2010. Lima has appeared on several television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized "Angel in Venice" commercial of 2003 with Bob Dylan and her solo Victoria's Secret's Super Bowl XLII ad, the single most-seen ad of the game, watched by 103.7 million viewers. 2008 continued for Lima with hosting the What Is Sexy? program for the E! Entertainment Network and a July tour for the BioFit Uplift Bra launch. Lima was also featured in November's Miracle Bra relaunch. Topping the year off, Lima wore the "Fantasy Bra" for the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The bra, created by American jewelry designer Martin Katz, was set with 3,575 black diamonds, 117 certified 1 carat (200 mg) white round diamonds, 34 rubies, and two black diamond drops totaling 100 carats (20 g). Valued at over $5 million, the bra carried more than 1,500 carats (300 g).

Lima//'s 1st acting role was the wife,alongside Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker,in The Follow (2001), a short film in BMW//'s series The Hire, starring Clive Owen and directed by Wong Kar-wai.Lima also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the series How I Met Your Mother inNovember2007.

In2008, Adriana Lima appeared on the American television series Ugly Betty, where she played herself and made friends with the series' title character, Betty.Lima is a devout Catholic who attends church every Sunday. In April 2006, she told GQ that she was a virgin.

OnSt. Valentine's Day 2009, Adriana Lima married Serbian basketball player Marko Jarić in a small private civil ceremony in Jackson, Wyoming In May 2009, it was reported that Lima applied for Serbian citizenship. The couple's daughter, Valentina Lima Jarić, was born on November 15, 2009. Valentina was born at 34 weeks gestation, weighing just 4.4 lb (2.0 kg), due to Lima'//s suffering from preeclampsia.

Adriana Lima was listed in the2005 Forbes//' edition of The World//'s Best-Paid Celebrities Under25.Also, Lima ranked No.99th in the2006 Forbes//' edition of TheCelebrity 100(Forbes//' Highest Paid and Powerful Celebrities in the World).Lima was chosen to be a part of People magazine//'s 100 most beautiful people in the world list,sharing that space with the Angels,with whom she also received a star on the Hollywood "\\Walk of Fame"prior to the2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.That same year,she ranked 7th on FHMs "\\100Sexiest Women2007"list and was awarded as the"\\Hottest Girl on the Planet"at the 1st Spike TV Guys//' Choice Awards,although the category was not mentioned in the actual broadcast.Lima was also voted on Maxim's "Hot 100" 2007 at the No.53 spot. Lima was voted No.1 as the Most Desirable Woman in 2005 by visitors of the men's lifestyle website, Askmen.com(she placed 4th in2006 and2007,10th in2008, and 19th in2009).Since November2008,Models.com has featured her at number #1 on the list of the "\\Sexiest Models."As of July2011, Lima is also ranked No.#4 in the website//'s "\\Money Girls"list.In 2010, Lima was voted 8th in "\\FHM's Sexiest Women In The World".Previously to this,FHM ranked her at No.#6 in2009, No.#21 in2008 and No.#4 in2007.In an interview about beauty,celebrity photographer and Victoria's Secret main photographer, RussellJames says Adriana is 1st of the most beautiful women he//'s ever worked with in the course of his career.

Adriana Lima does charitable work helping with an orphanage,"\\Caminhos da Luz"(Ways ofLight),located inSalvador.Lima helps with construction to expand the orphanage,and buys clothes for poor children in Salvador,Bahia.She appeared on Var mısın ?Yok musun ?,the Turkish version of Deal or NoDeal,where her prize money went to a hospital in Istanbul for children fighting leukemia.

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