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Adriana Lima with blue bikni

















Lima never thought about being a model, although she won many beauty contests in the primary [4] But. She has a friend at school who wanted a contest to come in and not only want to go, stood Lima with her. Both sent in pictures and contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for the competition. Shortly thereafter, at the age of 15, she ran and finished in first place in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" model search. She did in the 1996 Ford Supermodel of the World "competition and finished second [5] Three years later. Lima moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After getting advice quickly Lima's modeling portfolio began to expand, and entered into numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire. As a runway model, she walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren and Valentino, among others. Lima has a guess? girl in 2000, this year's fall ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A second decade of thinking? Pictures [3].

Lima continued to build on her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel in 2003 [5] [6] to 2009, the same year she appeared in its first calendar, a limited edition run with Kemp Muhl, Jessica White, Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang [7] Lima. Also noteworthy fashion brands bebe, Mossimo, Armani, Bulgari, De Beers, fcuk, Intimissimi, Keds, Swatch, Versace, and BCBG. She has also appeared on the covers and in editorials of other fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar, Elle, GQ, Arena, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the best selling issue magazine for years [8]. She also appeared in the 2005 Pirelli calendar [3] and face Italy's mobile phone provider, Telecom Italia Mobile, a move that earned her the nickname "the Catherine Zeta-Jones in Italy." [9]

In February 2008, Lima featured on the cover of Esquire, recreate the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson Esquire's cover at 75th birthday with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Selita Ebanks. She only appeared in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair is celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels. [10] In February 2008 she was elected to face Mexico's Liverpool store chain and began its partnership with a news conference, track, and the summer campaign. Lima back to high fashion runway in 2009, running for Givenchy [11] In the same year. After visiting Turkey, Lima signed a contract with Doritos in print will appear in campaigns and ads that began broadcasting in Turkey, in April she was also one of the sides of the Givenchy autumn / winter 2009 season, Maria Carla Boscono and Iris Strubegger. [12]

In 2006, Lima regarded as the fifth highest paid supermodel. In 2007 and 2008. Its position as the world's fourth highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine
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