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Adriana Lima was born there in Salvador da Bahia, the only child of Nelson Torres and Maria Graça Lima. Her father left the family when she was six months old. She has two half-brothers.Adriana Francesca Lima Jaric (* June 12th 1981 in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil ) is a Brazilian model and has mainly modeled for Victoria's Secret earned an international reputation.
Adriana Lima was discovered when she decided with a friend with a competitive model Brazil's Ford Supermodel to take part. At 16 she won a modeling contest, which they to participate in the largest model contest in the world, the Supermodel of the World contest of the modeling agency Ford Models qualified. They kicked the 49 winners of the respective other Ford Supermodel Contest , and was finally, after the Canadian Leanne Spencer second.
1999, at the age of 18, she signed a contract with modeling agency Elite Model Management and moved to New York City . See photos of her appeared in magazines soon as Vogue and Marie Claire , and she walked for designers such as Anna Sui , Vera Wang , Christian Lacroix , Giorgio Armani , Fendi , Ralph Lauren and Valentino .
In 2000, she was also the face of the autumn campaign of the brand of jeans GUESS .
Since 1999 she has worked for the lingerie company Victoria's Secret, both on camera and on the catwalk. It is one of the five Victoria's Secrets Angels, officially representing the brand, such as in the awarding of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . Since November 2010 in Lima, the new chief angel of Victoria's Secret.
Adriana Lima is also the face of cosmetics company Maybelline . In 2001 she starred alongside Clive Owen , Forest Whitaker and Mickey Rourke in the short film The Follow (episodic film of the BMW promotional film series The Hire ) with. In 2005, she was in the Pirelli calendar shown. As the April 2006 to cover the men's magazine Gentlemen's World adorned, was this issue of the best selling of the year.
According to Forbes magazine she is number 4 of the most highly paid models in the world, it is 4.5 million € to earn per year.
Since the 14th February 2009, she with the Serbian basketball star Marko Jaric married. On 15 November 2009 she gave birth to a daughter. It has in addition to the Serbian and Brazilian citizenship, which she received in 2009 by the Serbian Interior Minister Ivica handed Dačić.
