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Adriana Lima
View off-the-runway photos- Nationality
- Brazilian
- Birthday
- June 12, 1981
- Born In
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Lives Now
- New York, NY
- Agencies
- Marilyn Agency
- Known For
- Body, Breasts, Lips, Eyes, Virginity
- Status
- Established, sexy girl
- Friends
- Alessandra Ambrosio, Gisele Bündchen, Izabel Goulart, Selita Ebanks, Miranda Kerr, Heidi Klum, Karolina Kurkova, Marisa Miller
- Married
- Marko Jaric
- Interests
- Reading novels, charity work for an orphanage in her hometown
- Model Turned...
- actress
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Quoted
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“You think they'd allow me on a plane with only boy shorts?”
—Esquire magazine -
“Life without a father was confusing at times, I didn't know if I was to blame and I didn't know anything about him...but I love my mother and I have a bond with her that most people don't share with their own mothers. It all worked out.”
—AdrianaLimaFan.net -
“You have to be very secure about yourself, very confident.”
—E! Network
Adriana Lima's Career Highlights
- 12 JUN, 1981
- Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- 1987
- Father leaves Adriana and her mother
- 1992
- Enters the Ford Supermodel of the World contest, wins second place
- 1997
- Moves to New York, signs with Elite Model Management
- SEP 1997
- Debuts at the spring Anna Sui show in New York
- 1997
- Becomes the face of Anna Molinari
- 1999
- Starts modeling for Victoria’s Secret
- 2000
- Models for Victoria's Secret summer catalog
- FEB 2000
- Walks the fall Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, Emporio Armani, Fendi, and Valentino shows in New York, Milan, and Paris
- 2000
- Becomes the face of Guess?
- 2001
- Stars in the short film The Hire: The Follow, directed by Wong Kar-Wai, alongside actors Mickey Rourke and Clive Owen
- NOV 2001
- Walks in the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show
- 2002
- Rumored to have become engaged to Lenny Kravitz
- MAR 2002
- Walks the fall Alexander McQueen and John Galliano shows in Paris
- 2003
- Signs cosmetics contract with Maybelline Video»
- MAR 2003
- Appears on cover of Elle
- JUL 2003
- Closes the fall Versace couture show in Paris
- NOV 2003
- Opens the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show Video»
- 2004
- Co-stars with Bob Dylan in a Victoria’s Secret commercial set in Venice, wearing nothing but lingerie, heels, and a pair of wings Video»
- 2005
- Becomes the face of Italian cell-phone giant Telecom Italia Mobile; becomes known as the “Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy”
- 2006
- Claims she is a virgin
- APR 2006
- Featured on the cover of GQ, becoming the best selling issue of the year Video»
- APR 2007
- Named by People magazine as one of the 100 Most Beautiful People in the World Video»
- 16 JUL, 2007
- Named one of the world’s highest-paid models by Forbes
- SEP 2007
- Appears in Vanity Fair’s style-issue spread “Blame It on Brazil”
- 2 OCT, 2007
- Featured in Vanity Fair's preview of the Victoria's Secret fashion show Video»
- 2008
- Dates basketball star Marko Jaric of the Minnesota Timberwolves Story»
- JAN 2008
- Stars in Victoria's Secret television commercial during the Superbowl Video»
- FEB 2008
- Appears on the cover of Esquire magazine alongside Selita Ebanks, Karolina Kurkova, and Izabel Goulart under the headline "75 Years of Women" Video»
- APR 2008
- Featured on the cover of GQ, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
- 30 APR, 2008
- Named the world’s fourth highest-paid model by Forbes, having made a reported $7 million in the past year Story»
- JUN 2008
- Gets engaged to basketball player Marko Jaric Story»
- SEP 2008
- Featured on the cover of British GQ alongside Victoria's Secret Angels
- SEP 2008
- Leaves DNA Management in New York, and signs with Marilyn Agency
- NOV 2008
- Appears in French Vogue editorial, photographed by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzelle
- FEB 2009
- Makes a runway appearance at the fall Givenchy show in Paris
- 14 FEB, 2009
- Marries NBA player Marko Jaric Story»
- 26 MAR, 2009
- Announces pregnancy with husband Marko Jaric Story»
- MAY 2009
- Featured in Forbes world's highest-paid models, making an estimated $8 million
- 2009
- Becomes one of the faces of Givenchy, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
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