Adriana Lima is a very successful Brazilian model who is best known as the Victoria Secret’s Angel. She has also dabbled in acting and show hosting, but without a doubt most of her success has come from working on runways and appearing on magazine covers and spreads. Regarded as one of the New Supers in the fashion industry, she makes so much money for the work that she seems to be very passionate. To learn more about the beauty, read below.
Adriana Lima’s Bio (Age)
Adriana Lima was born on June 12, 1981 to parents Nelson Torres and Maria das Graças Lima. She was raised only by her mother after her father abandoned her when she was only six months old. She hadn’t initially considered becoming a model, but was discovered at a young age, which halted her educational endeavors. She was forced into the world of modeling by a friend who wanted to enter a modeling competition but didn’t want to do it alone.
The two therefore sent their pictures and Adriana Lima was selected for the competition. Adriana Lima took first place in Ford’s “Supermodel of Brazil” model search. In 1996, she followed that win when she competed in the Ford Models Supermodel of the World competition, finishing second at the time.
While not seeking a strictly formal education, Adriana Lima speaks four languages including English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. In 1998, the model moved to New York City, where she signed with Elite Model Management, who expanded her model portfolio to appear in numerous international editions of Marie Claire and Vogue. Her first cover magazine was in September 1998 in Marie Claire Brazil. In 2000 she appeared in GUESS? fall advertising campaign, they make a guess? Girl. She has also done print work for Maybelline and served as their voice model from 2003-2009.
She began working for many notable fashion brands and was an increasing favorite for many fashion magazine editorials and covers. Adriana Lima is still best known for her work with Victoria Secret with her numerous runway appearances, covers and ads over the years. She is the longest running Victoria Secret model and walked her first Victoria’s Secret runway in 1999. In 2000 she was signed as Angel and has since appeared on the following shows. Lima was also named the Most Valuable Victoria’s Secret Angel in 2017.
In 2008, Adriana Lima’s solo Victoria’s Secret Super Bowl XLII commercial was seen by 103.7 million viewers, making it the game’s most-watched commercial. The model branched out into acting, appearing in her first acting role in The Following (2001). The short film from the BMW series The Hire used to see her appear alongside Forest Whitaker and Mickey Rourke.She has also appeared as herself in a number of series guest spots, including comedy series How I Met Your Mother in 2007 and American television series Ugly Betty Adriana Lima is also the host and executive producer of American Beauty Stars, an American reality competition show that premiered on Lifetime on September 23, 2017.
The model has been ranked as the second highest paid model in the world since 2014 and she keeps strutting and appearing on covers and in editorials doing exactly what she loves and doing it well.
Children, Husband, Divorce
Adriana Lima has been married almost once and has also taken the leap into marriage once. In 2002, she became engaged to American singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz, with whom she has been dating since 2001. However, their engagement was called off and their relationship ended in 2003.
It was in 2009 that she finally settled with Serbian NBA player Marko Jaric, who she has been dating since 2006. They married on Valentine’s Day 2009 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Together they have two children – Valentina Lima Jarić was born on November 15, 2009 and Sienna Lima Jarić was born on September 12, 2012. After 5 years of marriage, the two announced their separation in 2014 and their divorce from each other was finalized in March 2016.
dating friend
As a woman who represents most peoples notions of beauty, Adriana Lima doesn’t have to look too far to find a partner. She has previously said that as a Christian she believes in sex only within marriage, but that didn’t seem to stop men wanting to date her. Since her divorce, she has dated men like boxing trainer Joe Thomas and German footballer Sami Khedira. However, she has been dating Turkish author Metin Hara since 2017.
Body stats – height, weight
Adriana Lima stands at 5 feet 10 inches or 178 cm and weighs 60 kg. She does a ton of work to stay in shape, revealing in a 2011 interview with The Daily Telegraph that she only drinks protein shakes nine days before the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and no at all for the last 12 hours before the show Liquids. She had claimed it’s possible to lose up to eight pounds from this final stretch of dry fasting. She also revealed that she has been working out twice a day for the last three weeks leading up to the show.
Her views expressed in the interview were heavily criticized, although the diet itself became so popular that it was among the top five most searched diets on the internet in 2012, according to Google data. The model fought back the criticism, noting that the diet was special for the show and that it went back to normal for the rest of the time.
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