Adriana Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian model and actress who is best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, and as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009. At the age of 15, Lima finished first in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City. Since 2005, Lima has ranked in the top five of Forbes' lists of the 20 highest-earning models in the world, and in 2006 ranked No.99 on the Forbes Celebrity 100. She is married to Serbian basketball player Marko Jarić.
Lima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school.[3] However, she 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, 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 finished in second place.[4] Three years later, Lima moved to New York City 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, she has walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang, Giorgio Armani and Valentino, among others. Lima became a GUESS? girl in 2000, appearing in that year's fall ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess? Images.[5]
Lima continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from 2003[4][6] until 2009, the same year she appeared in the company's first calendar.[7] Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Armani, Versace, BCBG and Louis Vuitton. She 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 April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue that magazine for the year.[8] She also appeared in the 2005 Pirelli Calendar[5] 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."[9]
In February 2008, Lima was featured on the cover of Esquire, re-creating the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson cover on Esquire's 75th anniversary. She appeared only in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels.[10] 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.[citation needed] Lima returned to the high fashion runway in 2009, walking for Givenchy.[11] 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.[citation needed] She was also one of the faces of Givenchy for the Fall/Winter 2009 season.[12] Lima is one of the two faces of Blumarine's Fall/Winter 2011 season.[13]
In 2011, Lima signed a deal as a spokeswoman for Megacity by Votsu, a Brazilian social gaming company, to appear in their commercials.[14] She also became the face of Brazilian luxury brand, Forum for their F/W and S/S seasons.[15] 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.[citation needed] She became the face of Donna Karan's spring 2012 ad campaign.[citation needed]
In 2006, Lima ranked as the fifth highest paid supermodel. In 2007 and 2008, she ranked as the world's fourth highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine.[8][16][17][18]
Lima starred in Super Bowl XLVI commercials for online flower service Teleflora and Kia Motors in early 2012 which was watched by more than 200 million viewers.[19][20]
Adriana Lima with the 2010 Fantasy Bra.
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.[citation needed] In 2004, she was part of the five Angels promoting Victoria's Secret nationwide in the so-called "Angels Across America"-Tour alongside Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum, Gisele Bündchen and Alessandra Ambrosio.[21] She missed the 2009 show due to her pregnancy.[22] Lima has appeared on several television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized[23][24] "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.[25] 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. She was also featured in November's Miracle Bra relaunch.[26] 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).[27]
Lima's first 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.[citation needed] She also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the series How I Met Your Mother in November 2007.
In 2008, Lima appeared on the American television series Ugly Betty, where she played herself and made friends with the series' title character, Betty.[28]
Lima was listed in the 2005 Forbes' edition of The World's Best-Paid Celebrities Under 25.[29] Also, she ranked No.99th in the 2006 Forbes' edition of The Celebrity 100 (Forbes' Highest Paid and Powerful Celebrities in the World).[30] In 2012 she was again listed in forbes Celebrity 100, this time ranking NO.100th.[31] 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 the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.[citation needed] That same year, she ranked 7th on FHMs "100 Sexiest Women 2007" list[32] and was awarded as the "Hottest Girl on the Planet" at the first Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards, although the category was not mentioned in the actual broadcast.[citation needed] Lima was also voted on Maxim's "Hot 100" 2007 at the No.53 spot.[citation needed] She was voted No.1 as the Most Desirable Woman in 2005 by visitors of the men's lifestyle website, Askmen.com (she placed 4th in 2006 and 2007, 10th in 2008, and 19th in 2009).[citation needed] Since November 2008, Models.com has featured her at number one on the list of the "Sexiest Models."[33] As of July 2011, she is also ranked No. 4 in the website's "Money Girls" list.[34] In 2010, she was voted eighth in "FHM's Sexiest Women In The World".[35] FHM ranked her at No. 6 in 2009, No. 21 in 2008 and No. 4 in 2007.[36] In 2010, Lima was ranked #46 on the 50 most popular women on the Web according to Google search results.[37]
Lima was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.[5] She is a devout Roman Catholic who attends mass every Sunday.[38][39]
On St. Valentine's Day 2009, Lima married Serbian NBA star Marko Jaric. [17][40][41] In May 2009, it was reported that Lima applied for Serbian citizenship.[42] The couple's daughter, Valentina Lima Jarić (Serbian Cyrillic: Валентина Лима Јарић), 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.[43] In March 2012, Lima confirmed that she and her husband are expecting their second child.[44]
Lima does charitable work helping with an orphanage, "Caminhos da Luz" (Ways of Light), located in Salvador. She helps with construction to expand the orphanage, and buys clothes for poor children in Salvador, Bahia.[45] She appeared on Var mısın? Yok musun?, the Turkish version of Deal or No Deal, where her prize money went to a hospital in Istanbul for children fighting leukemia.[46]
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- ^ "Adriana Lima: rica, linda e poderosa". Correio da Bahia (December 8, 2008).
- ^ a b "Adriana Lima". Maybelline. Archive as of 2008-01-15, via archive.org.
- ^ a b c Adriana Lima Profile in the FMD database. Accessed 2007-06-23.
- ^ Mod-TV video 1:02–1:09
- ^ Mod-TV video 0:51–1:04
- ^ a b Forbes Top Fifteen Models Forbes. Accessed 2007-06-16.
- ^ "Adriana Lima, Forbes Top Celebrities", Forbes. Accessed 2007-05-21.
- ^ Vanity Fair[dead link]
- ^ StyleFrizz Accessed 2009-03-19
- ^ Givenchy fw09. Models.com. Accessed 2011-08-10.
- ^ Blumarine F/W 11. Models.com. Accessed 2011-08-10.
- ^ "MegaCity - Comercial estrelado pela supermodelo Adriana Lima!" Video on YouTube (in Portuguese)
- ^ Profile at Celeb Net Worth
- ^ Forbes Top Fifteen Models. Accessed 2007-06-16.
- ^ a b Top 100 Celebrities 2006 Forbes. July 26, 2007.
- ^ ''Forbes'' Top-Earning Models Profile Forbes.com. April 30, 2008. Accessed 2011-08-10.
- ^ Super Bowl ads: Super model Adriana Lima in demand
- ^ Model Adriana Lima Stars in Two Super Hot Super Bowl Commercials
- ^ Victoria Secrets has made some of these Super Models Really Rich. thereallyrich.com. Retrieved on 2012-04-11.
- ^ 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Showfashion-style.becomegorgeous.com. Retrieved on 2012-04-11.
- ^ Dylan appearing in Victoria's Secret ad. Accessed 2007-09-19.
- ^ 'Lovesick' and Attired. Accessed 2007-09-19.
- ^ Close Super Bowl puts even more eyes on late-airing ads. Accessed 2008-08-07.
- ^ Adriana shoots Miracle Bra. Accessed 2007-09-19.[unreliable source?]
- ^ "Victoria's Secret unveils 2008 'Fantasy Bra'" "National Jeweler", October 20, 2008.
- ^ Bridget Daly (September 5, 2008). Adriana Lima to join cast of Ugly Betty tv.hollyscoop.com. Accessed 2010-10-10.
- ^ The World's Best-Paid Celebrities Under 25. msn.com. Accessed 2010-10-10.
- ^ Lea Goldman; Kiri Blakely (June 15, 2006). The Celebrity 100. Forbes. Accessed 2010-10-10.
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- ^ [http://models.com/rankings/sexiest/list.html?model_id=1545#1545 No.1 Sexiest model[. Models.com. Accessed 2011-08-10.
- ^ Money Girls List Models.com
- ^ FHM Ranking. FHM.com. Accessed 2010-08-10.
- ^ Adriana Lima. fhm.com. Accessedate 2011-08-10.
- ^ The 50 Most Popular Women on the Web According to Google search results" April 15, 2010, COED Magavine
- ^ "Adriana Lima: Our favorite... virgin?" GQ (April 2006)
- ^ "Tom Cruise Proposes to Katie Holmes; Angelina Jolie's Personal Life Full of Drama; Picks and Pans of New Movies". Showbiz Tonight. (June 17, 2005).
- ^ Adriana Lima Got Married. Accessed 2009-12-16.
- ^ Adriana Lima elopes!. People.com (February 29, 2009). Accessed 2009-04-22.
- ^ Adrijana Lima želi državljanstvo Srbije May 27, 2009
- ^ First Photo: Meet Adriana Lima’s Daughter Valentina! May 5, 2010,
- ^ Adriana Lima Expecting Second Child. People. March 20, 2012. Accessed 2012-03-20.
- ^ Adriana helping her charity. Superiorpics.com. Accessed 2011-08-10.
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