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Victoria Secret fashion Show

2008-11-28T10:48:00.000-08:00

Secret models is here. Photos, Bio's, news, videos and all things here

Adriana Lime Hot

2008-11-22T06:43:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima On The Ramp

2008-11-22T06:36:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima And Doutzen Kroes Because They Are Hot

2008-11-22T06:27:00.001-08:00

Here’s Adriana Lime and Doutzen Kroes posing in lingerie for the “Supermodel Obsession” book. I don’t know if these shots are old or new, but they’re damn hot. So hot in fact, that I don’t want to taint them with my filthy writing.

Adriana Lima Gives Good Face ( PHOTOS)

2008-11-22T06:20:00.000-08:00

I don’t what it is, but Adriana Lima’s facial expressions always seem to turn me on. It’s like a porn facial without the mess. Ok, so I know that’s a little dirty but let’s be honest, that’s what you guys think about when you see pictures of Adriana Lima like this, isn’t it? Don’t tell me I’m the only one. Anyway, here she is introducing the latest Victoria’s Secret fragrance.

Adriana Lima Looking Cool

2008-11-22T06:15:00.000-08:00

Adriana at Bar Pitti

2008-11-22T06:12:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima chows down at Bar Pitti in New York's West Village.

Victoria's Secret Catwalk Show.

2008-11-22T06:10:00.000-08:00

Gisele Bundchen and Adriana Lima backstage at the Victoria's Secret catwalk show.

These Boots Were Made For...

2008-11-22T06:08:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima is rocker-chic and smokin' hot. Cool...

Blowing Kisses

2008-11-22T06:06:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima looks even sexier next to those bras.

Adriana Lima and Usher

2008-11-22T06:00:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima and Usher walk the runway at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on November 15, 2008.

Adriana Lima Some Photos

2008-11-22T05:58:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima Modelling Cool Bikinis

2008-11-22T05:42:00.000-08:00

Elegant Peach Tube Dress And White Roses

2008-11-22T05:40:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima Victoria's Secret Extreme Push Up Yellow

2008-11-22T05:37:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima Topless showing a thong

2008-11-22T05:30:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima Topless showing a thong

Victoria's Secret Angels

2008-11-22T04:24:00.000-08:00

The highly coveted “Angel” status is given to very few select models. There are usually only 6 or 7 Victoria’s Secret Angels at any given time. When one Angel retires, Victoria’s Secret will fill their spot by selecting a new Angel. Victoria’s Secret Angels are the focal point of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows, advertising campaings, and are also the faces of select Victoria’s Secret lines and collections. They are also general spokesmodels for Victoria’s Secret.

Gisele Bündchen

2008-11-22T04:23:00.001-08:00

Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen (new name is Paim Beri) (born July 20, 1980) is a Brazilian supermodel who is arguably regarded as the most famous and the highest-paid model in the world. Since her introduction on the fashion scene in the ’90s she appeared in countless billboards and magazine covers, as well as numerous TV and print ads. Gisele is currently the face of more than 20 brands from different countries such as United States, Russia, Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, Korea, Germany and Switzerland. According to Forbes, Gisele made $30 million between June of 2005 and June of 2006. She also appears in Guinness World Records as the “world’s richest supermodel”, with a net worth of $150 million.

Early life and career
Gisele was born in the southern Brazilian town of Três de Maio in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul. Her parents are Valdir and Vânia Bündchen, both of German descent. She has five sisters - Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and her fraternal twin Patrícia (Gisele’s junior by five minutes).

Originally, she wanted to be a professional volleyball player and considered playing for the Brazilian team, Sogipa. While in school, Bündchen was so thin that her friends used to call her “Olívia Palito” (Portuguese for Olive Oyl, Popeye’s skinny girlfriend), and “Saracura” (a type of Brazilian shorebird). An oft-told story of Bündchen’s “discovery” is that she was scouted by a modeling agent at age fourteen while eating a Big Mac at a local McDonald’s.

Prior to that, in 1993, a then-13-year-old Bündchen joined a modeling course with her sisters Patrícia and Gabriela at her mother’s insistence. The course, instructed by Dilson Stein, was designed for teenagers aspiring to become models. The following year, Stein took Bündchen, along with some other girls to São Paulo to give them an opportunity to walk in a big city and to be evaluated by Brazilian Elite agents. She was subsequently selected for a national contest, Elite Look of the Year, in which she placed second – Claudia Menezes, from Bahia, took first place. Bündchen placed fourth in the world contest, held in Ibiza, Spain. In 1996, Bündchen moved to New York City to begin her modeling career, debuting at Fashion Week.

Modeling career
Gisele Bündchen walking the runway at the 2006 Fashion Rio Inverno. Gisele’s debut on the cover the July 1999 edition of Vogue Magazine, and the accompanying editorial entitled, “The Return of the Curve” is widely viewed as marking the end of the”heroin chic” era. She would grace the cover again in November and December on her way to winning the VH1/Vogue Model of the Year for 1999, and a January 2000 cover shot would give her the rare honor of three consecutive Vogue covers in a row. In 2000 she was the fourth model in history to grace the cover of Rolling Stone, when she was named “the most beautiful girl in the world”.

Since her debut, she has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including several seasons of Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Versace, Céline, Givenchy, Bvlgari, Lanvin, Guerlain, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Earl Jean, Zara, Chloé, Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton, and Victoria’s Secret. Bündchen is also the face of several Brazilian brands like Vivo, Brazil’s leading mobile company, Multiplan, Colcci and Credicard. After C&A Brazil hired her and started their television commercials, sales increased by 30%.

In May of 2006, Bündchen signed another multi-million dollar deal, this time with American giant Apple Computer. She starred in an advertising campaign to promote the new Macintosh line through the Get a Mac advertisements.

She has her own line of sandals with shoes company Grendene, called Ipanema Gisele Bündchen, which have sold more than 100 million pairs since 2001. She is also the owner of a hotel in the south of Brazil, the Palladium Executive.

Bündchen consistently works with photographers, like Nino Munoz, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Mert and Marcus, Rankin, Annie Leibovitz, Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Lindbergh, Mario Sorrenti and Patrick Demarchelier, among others.

Bündchen has also been on the covers of most of the main fashion magazines around the globe like, W, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Allure and many international editions of Vogue, as well as style and lifestyle publications like i-D, The Face, Arena, Citizen K, Flair, GQ, Esquire and Marie Claire. She has also been featured in broader market publications such as Time, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Newsweek, Veja.

Film career
Regarding a film career, Bündchen has said “I think it would be interesting,” but counters “I’m young and I like what I do for now and I understand that everything in life happens for the moment.”

She made her movie debut in the 2004 comedy Taxi, alongside Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon. She also made a high-profile appearance in the 2006 comedy The Devil Wears Prada.

Also in 2006, She appeared in one of Apple Incs new “Get a Mac” advertisements. In it, she is the personification of a home movie created using an Apple Mac Computer.

Gisele is rumored to be the front runner for the role of Vittoria Vetra in the upcoming Angels & Demons adaptation, the sequel to the 2006 International smash The Da Vinci Code.

Personal life
When she is not working or traveling the world, Bündchen enjoys spending time with her family, friends and her dog Vida (meaning “life” in Portuguese), a Yorkshire Terrier. Her first boyfriend in the United States was model Scott Barnhill, but they dated for only six months. After Scott she was also linked with hotel tycoon Vikram Chatwal and Josh Hartnett, but she never confirmed the rumors about these two.

Bündchen’s most famous romance was her on/off relationship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. They met in 2000 during a fashion party in Los Angeles. On the next day DiCaprio sent flowers to Bündchen and invited her to dinner, but she refused. A month later he finally had the opportunity to take her on a date, but their first public appearance did not occur until in 2005 at the 77th Annual Academy Awards. In November 2005, they broke up.

Bündchen began dating surfer Kelly Slater soon after her breakup with DiCaprio, but the two broke up by July 2006. Bündchen was briefly linked to actor Chris Evans of Fantastic Four fame. She started to date New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady before Christmas of 2006. The couple were first seen in public in NYC leaving Bündchen’s apartment in late January.

Controversy

John Casablancas
Bündchen’s rise to fame has not come without controversy. Like Heidi Klum and several other models, she moved from her original agency Elite Model Management to IMG. John Casablancas, head of Elite, accused Bündchen of being a stoner who slept her way to the top, though he has now stated that he was misquoted. Casablancas also filed a $15 million lawsuit against her.

Miranda Kerr Photos Gallery

2008-11-21T11:04:00.000-08:00

Heidi Klum in Miami

2008-11-21T11:02:00.000-08:00

Heidi Klum shares her favorite holiday gift picks at a Victoria's Secret store in Miami Beach, Florida on November 13, 2008.

Doutzen Kroes in Miami

2008-11-21T11:00:00.000-08:00

Doutzen Kroes shares her favorite holiday gift picks at a Victoria's Secret store in Miami Beach, Florida on November 13, 2008.

Adriana Lima in Miami

2008-11-21T10:58:00.000-08:00

Adriana Lima shares her favorite holiday gift picks at a Victoria's Secret store in Miami Beach, Florida on November 13, 2008.

Victorias Secret Angels in Miami

2008-11-21T10:57:00.000-08:00

The Victoria's Secret Angels share their favorite holiday gift picks at a Victoria's Secret store in Miami Beach, Florida on November 13, 2008.

Doutzen Kroes

2008-11-21T10:56:00.001-08:00

Doutzen Kroes now makes about $6 million, thanks to her deals with Calvin Klein, L'Oréal, and most recently, Victoria's Secret.

Adriana Lima

2008-11-21T10:54:00.001-08:00

Adriana Lima is one of the faces of Victoria's Secret and makes about $7 million each year.

Miranda Kerr in a White Hot Bikini

2008-11-21T10:50:00.000-08:00

Miranda Kerr was part of the recent Victoria’s Secret show that occurred this past weekend

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

2008-11-21T10:45:00.000-08:00

Models at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on November 15, 2008.

The Links Get Into My Car Heidi Klum

2008-11-21T10:44:00.001-08:00

Sexy supermodel Heidi Klum showed off her legs in a super-short dress as she filmed a commercial on the streets of Beverly Hills. The blonde Victoria's Secret beauty emerged from her trailer to shoot behind the wheel of a white Bentley, smiling between takes as a stylist touched up her hair...

Heidi Klum Is Flying the Coop

2008-11-21T03:08:00.000-08:00

Heidi Klum, get back here! Where do you think you're going, young lady?

Yes, Project Runway looks to be sliding into a bin full of sticky legal red tape, but jumping ship when the going gets tough is so very un-fabelhaft of you.

Well, okay, it's probably unfair to insinuate the good friend of John Mayer would be up to anything shady. She was actually just attending a Los Angeles Victoria's Secret party celebrating The Heidi Klum Collection for Very Sexy Makeup.

Hey, Carrot Top might have learned a thing or two by attending this shindig!

Anyway, hang in there, Heidi; even though showbiz is a delicate song and dance, this whole Runway mess will surely get straightened out.

Heidi Klum Is an Angel With Sequined Wings

2008-11-21T03:06:00.000-08:00

The brand-new Fontainebleu Hotel in Miami was the place to be this weekend. Not only did it hold a spectacular, star-studded opening on Friday night—it held a Victoria's Secret lingerie fashion show headed up by supermodel Heidi Klum!

Klum led the model assault on the runway, along with Alessandria Ambrosia, Miranda Kerr, and Karolina Kurkova all clad in the latest sexy wear, accented by wings, head dresses and a runway unfortunately covered in broken glass.

Was the glass on purpose? Does the model union know about this?

"I already cut my foot once in rehearsal!" Kurkova told E!.

After the show, celebrities partied at LIV. Actor Terrence Howard reportedly had a VIP table on stage. The rest of the stars had to make do with tables stocked with Belvedere vodka on the main floor.

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian reportedly had tables across from each other. Kim seems to have won the "how many stars like me better" contest. Paris just had her reality show buddies, and Kim had Mario Lopez and Kristen Cavallari.

LIV wasn't the only hopping club that night. Perhaps finding LIV not big enough for her angel wings, the accidentally Hindu-baiting Heidi Klum and husband Seal drank champagne with Lenny Kravitz, Usher and a late-arriving Alex Rodriguez at Blade.

Elle Macpherson

2008-11-21T02:59:00.000-08:00

They call her 'The Body' -- and that's because she is just so darn good at math. Not. Six-foot-tall Sports Illustrated cover girl Elle Macpherson is just that -- fierce. She had just entered her twenties when she ascended to supermodel status in the late '80s. Born on March 29, 1963, in Sydney, Australia, Elle was discovered in Aspen, Colorado. The renowned mannequin dabbled in acting in the '90s, including parts on Batman & Robin (1997) and Friends (1999). The public figure's personal life includes one marriage -- to fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon from 1985 to 1989 -- and two sons with richy rich boyfriend Arpad Busson, with whom she split in 2005. Said to have been hooking up with Diving Bell and Butterfly director Julian Schanabel's 21-year-old son in early 2008, this 40-something cougar is on the prowl. Meow!

Tricia Helfer

2008-11-21T02:57:00.000-08:00

Tricia Helfer played Cylon Number Six, the sexy cyborg, in both the 2003 TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica and the TV series that followed. Helfer got her start as a model, winning the 1992 Ford Supermodel of the World contest and then appearing on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Elle, Health and other magazines. She has been featured prominently in advertising for Oil of Olay and Victoria's Secret clothing. Helfer also played Farrah Fawcett in the 2004 TV movie Behind the Camera: the Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels. In Battlestar her character is responsible for the success of the cylon attack on the human planet Caprica, but goes on to become the first cylon to experience human emotions. A regular cast member, she also co-starred in the 2007 TV movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor.

Extra: The original Battlestar Galactica premiered in 1978; the cast included Lorne Greene and Jane Seymour.

Estella Warren

2008-11-21T02:54:00.000-08:00

Estella Warren was a hit wearing next to nothing for a series of ads for Perry Ellis fashions; later she became the key model for Chanel No. 5 perfume. Warren was a synchronized swimming champion in Canada before moving to New York in 1996 to become a fashion model. She has appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog and in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and is sometimes compared with fellow models Kate Moss and James King. In 2001 Warren was Sylvester Stallone's love interest in the auto racing film Driven; the same year she starred as Daena in the remake of Planet of the Apes, directed by Tim Burton and co-starring Mark Wahlberg.

Tyra Banks

2008-11-21T02:48:00.000-08:00

Tyra Banks is the hot version of Oprah. Tyra has come up a long way since her December 4, 1973, debut in Los Angeles, California. She hosts her own talk show, is a super famous ex-model and is the domineering mistress of America's Next Top Model. Banks was blasted for gaining weight after she retired from modeling, but struck back with vengeance and a bikini. Train wreck and self-proclaimed supermodel Janice Dickinson was forced to eat her words after calling Tyra fat. For anyone less infatuated with Tyra than she is, the chunky-trunk icon is probably pretty boring, being a teetotaler and having a dating history that hits its wild spot with 'oh so serious' director John Singleton. My advice? If Tyra invites you to dinner, bring a book!

Helena Christensen

2008-11-21T02:47:00.000-08:00

Forget Kierkegaard and LEGO blocks-former Victoria's Secret model Helena Christensen is Denmark's greatest export. Her December 25, 1968 birth was surely a Christmas present to the world, but one that remained largely unrecognized until 1986, when she won the Miss Denmark competition at 18. Most Americans became aware of the dark-haired beauty via the 1991 Chris Isaak video 'Wicked Game,' in which she rolled nude in the surf and made Isaak's yodeling melodrama tolerable. As comfortable behind the camera as in front of it, Christensen has shot photos for Marie Claire and Elle, and co-founded Nylon magazine. Can Hans Christian Andersen say that? We thought not.

Laetitia Casta

2008-11-21T02:43:00.000-08:00

Supermodel Laetita Casta was reportedly spotted by a photographer while lying on a beach with her family at age 15. Modelling work led to a contract with Guess? clothing, and with the internet boom of the 1990s underway, Casta became one of the Web's most popular pinup girls. She also appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog, in Sports Illustrated, and in the usual top-flight fashion magazines. Her popularity was so great in 1999 that she was chosen by a vote of French mayors as the model for new busts of Marianne, the revolutionary symbol of France who appears in sculpted form in French town halls. Casta has also more than dabbled in acting, debuting in the 1999 French comedy Astérix et Obélix contre César (Astérix and Obélix vs. Caesar, with Roberto Benigni) and starring in Les Ames fortes (Savage Souls, 1991, with John Malkovich) and Errance (2003).

Extra: Casta has a brown belt in judo... Her daughter Sahteene was born in 2001; the father is photographer Stephane Sednaoui... Other famous Guess? models include Anna Nicole Smith, Eva Herzigova and Claudia Schiffer.

Selita Ebanks

2008-11-21T02:40:00.000-08:00

Selita Ebanks is something of a rarity: a supermodel born not in Brazil or Germany but in the Cayman Islands. Ebanks grew up on Walker's Road in the capital city of George Town. She began modelling at age 17 and has since appeared in fashion magazines from Glamour and Marie Claire to Vogue and Nylon. She has also appeared in advertising campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren and Levis Jeans. In 2005 her career took another step upwards when she was chosen to appear alongside established models like Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show television special.

Extra: Banks, who was retiring from modelling, symbolically passed her Victoria's Secret wings to Ebanks on a November 2005 edition of The Tyra Banks Show... According to a 2005 CBS press release for the Victoria's Secret TV special, Ebanks "was discovered at the age of 17 at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure by Women Model Management" and is "of Caymanian, Jamaican, Irish, Indian, and African heritage."

Jill Goodacre

2008-11-21T02:38:00.000-08:00

Jill Goodacre was the first model to become a celebrity simply by appearing in the Victoria's Secret catalog. Her auburn-haired good looks made her a favorite with readers of the lingerie catalog in the early 1990s. That led to appearances on the David Letterman show and elsewhere, including a 1994 guest spot on the sitcom Friends in which she was trapped with Chandler (Matthew Perry) in an ATM vestibule. She married the singer and actor Harry Connick, Jr. in 1994.

Extra: She is also known as Jill Connick and Jill Goodacre-Connick... Her mother Glenna Goodacre is the sculptor who created the Vietnam Women's Memorial statue for the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., as well as the portrait of Sacagawea for the U.S. dollar coin.

Karen Mulder

2008-11-21T02:34:00.000-08:00

Karen Mulder is a big blonde with Marlene Dietrich cheekbones. She's modelled around the world; in the United States she's best known for her appearances in Calvin Klein and Guess clothing ads and in the Victoria's Secret catalog. In 2001 Mulder became embroiled in controversy after she filed a rape complaint in France against Prince Albert of Monaco. She made a similar accusation during a taping of a television show, but the producers deemed her emotionally unstable and did not broadcast the interview. Later a rumor spread that Mulder had been committed to a psychiatric clinic, and in January of 2002 Mulder announced that she had been sexually abused as a child. Her father publicly blamed her troubles on drugs. Later in 2002 it was reported that she had attempted suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Rebecca Romijn

2008-11-20T23:58:00.000-08:00

In the growing field of models-turned-actresses, Rebecca Romijn stands out because of the little bit of 'mystique' she brings to every role. Rebecca Alie Romijn was born on November 6, 1972 in Berkeley, California. She studied music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, but during her freshman year became restless and hooked up with a friend who got her involved with fashion modeling. She moved to Paris and worked there for more than two years posing for the covers of magazines such as French Elle.

Once she returned to the US, Rebecca didn't have to wait long to find work. She was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and modeled for Christian Dior and Victoria's Secret. She made her TV debut on an episode of Friends and went on to a recurring guest spot on Just Shoot Me. She also joined fellow models such as Shalom Harlow, Cindy Crawford and Molly Sims as a host of MTV's House of Style from 1998 to 2000.

After meeting at a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 1994, she began dating actor John Stamos, and the pair were wed on September 19, 1998. During her marriage, she went by the name Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in both her personal and professional life. The couple announced their separation on April 12, 2004 and divorced on March 1, 2005.

Rebecca landed her first film role as the scantily-clad 'Mystique' in the blockbuster 2000 film X-Men. She worked with well-known director Brain De Palma for her first leading role, in the critically-panned 2002 film Femme Fatale with Antonio Banderas. She returned to the body paint and latex to reprise her role as 'Mystique' for 2003's X2:X-Men United, and again for X-Men:The Last Stand in 2006. She also appeared in the superhero flick The Punisher.

Rebecca got the opportunity to showcase her talent for comedy and singing on the short-lived WB series Pepper Dennis in 2006, then joined the cast of the ABC series Ugly Betty in January 2007, playing 'Alexis Meade,' a male-to-female transsexual. In April 2008, it was reported that she would only be appearing as a recurring character in the show's third season due to a change in direction by the writing staff. On September 19, 2005, Rebecca announced her engagement to actor Jerry O'Connell and the two were married on July 14, 2007. With her increasingly growing resume, Rebecca Romijn's career prospects are looking quite beautiful.

Gisele Bundchen

2008-11-20T23:54:00.000-08:00

Hailing from Brazil, Gisele Bundchen is, without a doubt, one of the world's most beautiful supermodels. Here are some fun facts about this hottie with a body:

• Rumor has it that Gisele was discovered at the age of 13 while chowing down on a hamburger at McDonalds.

• She was named "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by Rolling Stone Magazine at age 19.

• Gisele makes a cameo appearance in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada.

• She topped Forbe's Magazine's list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels in 2007, making an estimated $33 million.

Eva Herzigova

2008-11-20T23:52:00.000-08:00

Eva Herzigova succeeded Claudia Schiffer as the key model for Guess? Jeans in the early 1990s. She's better known for starring in a famous series of va-va-voom Wonderbra ads, including one with the tag line, "Look me in the eyes." Herzigova has also been featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalog. Herzigova has acted in a few films, including Guardian Angels (1998) and Just For the Time Being (2000).

Extra : Herzigova married Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres in 1996....

Daniela Pestova

2008-11-20T23:48:00.000-08:00

A lanky blonde from Czechoslovakia, Daniela Pestova has gotten her greatest American exposure as a regular in the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She has also modelled for the Victoria's Secret catalog and under contract for the cosmetics and perfume company L'Oreal.

Pestova's fellow Sports Illustrated models include Elsa Benitez, Heidi Klum, Molly Sims and Yamila Diaz.

Vendela

2008-11-20T23:25:00.000-08:00

A multi-talented Swede, Vendela Kirsebom joined the Ford modelling agency while still a teenager. She modelled in Europe and the United States for Revlon, Elizabeth Arden and many other products, gaining extra fame in 1993 by appearing on the cover of the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. As her fame grew she branched out into TV, guest-starring on Murphy Brown and Muppets Tonight! On film she made brief appearances in Batman and Robin (1997, as the wife of villainous Mr. Freeze, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and in The Parent Trap (1998, as a bridal gown model). Her 2002 book Model Mommy is a guide to nutrition and exercise for new mothers.

Carmen Kass

2008-11-20T23:22:00.000-08:00

Carmen Kass was born in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia (formerly in the Soviet Union). After the fall of the USSR she began modelling in Italy as a teenager and eventually reached international stardom. Like Gisele Bundchen before her, Kass was named the VH1/Vogue model of the year (in 2000) and has posed for Victoria's Secret. She has appeared in high-profile campaigns for The Gap and Christian Dior, among other fashion lines. (One popular Dior ad featured Kass starred wading through a pool of golden water.) Kass stands 5'11" and is sometimes considered part of the "big model" movement which followed the popularity of waiflike models such as Kate Moss and James King.

Megan Ewing

2008-11-20T23:11:00.000-08:00

Megan Ewing's youth, raven hair and hazel eyes made her a breakout model in 2001. She was in eighth grade when she made her first modelling trip to Tokyo, and within a few years she had made appearances in Harper's Bazaar, Maxim, Gear, and Elle magazines. In 2001 she became a regular model for Guess clothing, and the next year she appeared in the popular Victoria's Secret catalog.

Molly Sims

2008-11-20T23:09:00.000-08:00

Supermodel Molly Sims was first known for her saucy TV ads for Old Navy clothing, in which she delivered the tag line "You gotta get this look!" She then became one of the most-seen American models of the early 2000's. Sims gave up law school at Vanderbilt University to try modelling in Europe, where she made the covers of Spanish Vogue and French Cosmopolitan. In 2001 she began hosting MTV's House of Style, following in the footsteps of models Cindy Crawford and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. She also appeared in ads for Victoria's Secret and in the 2001 and 2002 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, sharing space with cover models Elsa Benitez and Yamila Diaz. In 2003 she joined the cast of the NBC drama Las Vegas in the role of Delinda Deline.

Sims is 5'10" tall. Sims posed in a 150-carat diamond bikini reportedly worth $30 million for the 2006 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue...

Adriana Karembeu

2008-11-20T23:04:00.000-08:00

Name at birth: Adriana Sklenarikova

Model Adriana Karembeu is a superstar in Europe, where she's best known for her ads for Peroni Beer and for Wonderbra. Also famous is her length: she is reportedly 6'1" tall, and her legs (at 49.5 inches/126 centimeters) once were listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest supermodel legs in the world. (Brazilian model Ana Hickmann has been listed by Guinness for the same trait.) She married the French football (soccer) player Christian Karembeu in December of 1998. Since then she has been known both by her original name of Sklenarikova and as Adriana Karembeu.

Stephanie Seymour

2008-11-20T22:58:00.000-08:00

Stephanie Seymour was a leading supermodel of the 1990s, a classical brunette of the pensive, look-of-longing school. She has appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, on the cover of Vogue and other high-fashion magazines, and perhaps most famously in the Victoria's Secret catalogs. Seymour dated rock star Axl Rose of the band Guns 'N Roses for several years; the two became engaged before breaking up. In 1995 she married businessman Peter Brant.

Extra credit: Seymour formerly dated rock star Axl Rose. In 1995 she married businessman Peter Brant.

Heidi Klum

2008-11-20T22:53:00.000-08:00

Perhaps the only thing more impressive than German-born clotheshorse Heidi Klum's beauty is her bank account. The world's third-biggest-earning supermodel according to Forbes magazine, Klum (born June 1, 1973) broke into modeling via a German late-night talk-show contest in 1992. Since then, Klum has branched into clothing design, jewelry design, perfumery and media mogul-dom. Klum's hit Bravo series Project Runway—for which she serves as host, judge and executive producer—has garnered a Peabody Award, the first time a reality show has received such an honor. About the only thing that might hold her back are accusations of pilfering—the model was hit with a lawsuit in December 2007 for allegedly swiping another jeweler's design. Seems plausible to us; after stealing so many hearts, what's a little intellectual property?

Claudia Schiffer

2008-11-20T22:51:00.000-08:00

After all these years, Claudia Schiffer is still smokin', Brigitte Bardot-esque H-O-T. To prove it, she did a sexy, age-defying spread in GQ in the spring of '08. She was born on August 25, 1970, in Rheinberg, Germany, and at the tender age of 17 an agent spotted her at a nightclub. Within two years of being discovered, she was the face of Guess? Jeans and launched into '90s supermodel-dom. She was engaged, for, like, ever to magician-slash-dork David Copperfield - a relationship that ended in 1999. She married film producer Matthew Vaughn in 2002 and has two children with him.

Petra Nemcova

2008-11-20T22:47:00.000-08:00

Model Petra Němcová has truly earned the title of 'supermodel' - overcome a terrible tragedy and using her beauty to help those in need. Petra was born on June 24, 1979 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic. At the age of 16, she was discovered at a modeling talent search and turned her attention towards a career in modeling. As soon as she completed school, she began modeling full time and eventually moved to Paris. She was soon appearing in European ad campaigns for Max Factor, Lancaster & La Perla and appearing in runway shows for Valentino and Armani.

Petra got her big break in the US when she was chosen to grace the cover of the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has gone on to model for Victoria's Secret and other designers. Tragedy struck on December 26, 2004 when Petra and her fiancé, photographer Simon Atlee, were at a Thailand resort when the infamous tsunami that resulted from an earthquake in the Indian Ocean struck. Initially, Atlee was presumed missing, but his body was found and identified on March 3, 2005. During the tsunami, Petra was able to hang on to the top of a palm tree until she was rescued and airlifted to a hospital. She suffered a broken pelvis and serious internal injuries, spent three weeks in a Thai hospital, and then flew home to the Czech Republic, where she spent an additional three weeks in the hospital.

Her heroism was recognized by Glamor magazine, which awarded her a 'Survivor Award' in 2005. She wrote an autobiography, Love Always, Petra, which was published in December of 2005 and went back to modeling, appearing in the 2006 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and the 2007 British FHM calendar as Miss May. She also hosted the TLC reality series A Model Life in 2007 and was romantically linked to singer James Blunt. In 2005, she founded the Happy Hearts Fund, a charity for disadvantaged children. Forget those people you see every year on the televised reality competition, Petra is a true survivor.

Alessandra Ambrosio

2008-11-20T22:43:00.000-08:00

Alessandra Ambrosio was born in the small Brazilian town of Erechim on April 11, 1981. Trying to prove that models aren't born perfect, she's been extremely vocal about having plastic surgery to pin back her ears, the complications that arose from the surgery and why plastic surgery is bad. Honey, you're stunning, so shut up! Let the ugly fatties have whatever surgery they want, and you keep being a Victoria's Secret Angel. She continued to model in lingerie and bikinis during her 2008 pregnancy.

Karolina Kurkova's Novel Navel

2008-11-20T22:41:00.001-08:00

Karolina Kurkova can rest easily—and sexily—tonight. Her secret shame has finally been revealed, and a great weight has been lifted off her shoulders. Or, more accurately, her midsection.

Splash News Online reveals that the 24-year-old Czech hottie doesn't have a belly button, but rather a smooth dimple where her navel should be.

The anomaly was discovered at last weekend's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. An eagle-eyed observer noticed that something was amiss with the blonde undies-shiller as she strutted across the catwalk.

According to Splash, reps at Victoria's Secret have confirmed the missing belly button and say that a navel is installed via photo editing whenever Kurkova's midsection is photographed (which, given her profession, is a fairly regular occurrence).

Not that the imperfection has hurt Karolina's career any. This year, Forbes listed her as the sixth highest-paid model in the world, with annual earnings of about $5 million.

With that kind of dough, she should be able to buy herself a belly button. Made of canary diamonds and 24-carat gold.

Karolina Kurkova

2008-11-20T22:05:00.000-08:00

Karolina Kurkova became famous in America when she appeared on the cover of Vogue in February 2001 at the tender age of 17. The daughter of a Czech basketball player, Kurkova stood out at 5' 11" with a golden-blonde head of hair. By 2002 she had become the newest "hot" face, winning the Model of the Year at the Vogue Fashion Awards. She has modelled extensively for Victoria's Secret (appearing in the company's annual television specials from 2001-2007) and for Chanel, Rolex, Christian Dior, Versace and many other brands.

Extra credit: Kurkova is 5' 11" tall and her nicknames are Kinka, KK, and Koka Kola, according to the CBS website for the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Miranda Kerr

2008-11-20T21:50:00.000-08:00

Heaven must be missing an angel - and her name is Miranda Kerr. This Australian-born (on April 20, 1983) beauty has risen to fame as one of lingerie giant Victoria's Secret's models, known as Angels, after their most popular line of intimate apparel. At 13, she won a nationwide modeling contest in Australia and soon after began modeling throughout Australia and Japan, making a splash modeling swim wear for such high-profile surf brands as Billabong and Roxy.

She moved to New York and signed a contract with Next modeling agency in 2004. It took her no time at all to get gigs and was soon modeling on the runway and in print ads for such labels as Betsey Johnson, L.A.M.B. and Roberto Cavalli. In 2006, she appeared in a campaign for cosmetic giant Maybelline, which led her to being signed as Victoria's Secret's first Australian Angel, with prominent appearances on the company's web site and on the famous televised runway shows.

Recently, she has modeled for retail chain Arden B. and appeared in ads for Clinque's fragrance Happy. In 2008, Miranda became a household name as she began a romantic relationship with Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom. With a high-profile romance and her angelic features, America's got a standing date with this angel.

Adriana Lima

2008-11-20T21:26:00.000-08:00

Adriana Francesca Lima: (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics. At age 15, Lima finished first place 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.

Lima was born in the northeastern coastal town of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on June 12, 1981, to African, Native Brazilian, and Swiss heritage. Her father, from whom she was estranged for most of her life, is Nelson Torres, and her mother, Maria da Graça Lima, was a social worker who gave birth to Lima at the age of 18. Lima revealed that her father walked out on her family when she was six months old, but has been making recent attempts to reconcile. In late 2007, Lima revealed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that although she is her mother's only child, she has two half brothers, aged 7 and 11, from her father's second marriage. Coming from a poor family, her first time leaving her country and first time on a plane was when she was 15. She was raised mainly by her mother and grandmother.

Modeling

Lima never thought about being a model. However, she had a friend at school who wanted to enter a modeling contest and didn't 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. Three years later, Lima moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After acquiring representation, Lima's modeling portfolio began to expand by leaps and bounds, and she appeared in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire. As for fashion shows, she has walked the catwalks for big-name designers such as Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren and Valentino, among others. Lima then became a GUESS? girl, appearing in their Fall 2000 ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A second decade of Guess? Images.

Lima continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, as well as bebe, Mossimo, Armani, Bulgari, De Beers, FCUK, Intimissimi, Keds, Swatch, Versace, and BCBG. She also appeared on the covers and in the editorials of other fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, Vogue, GQ, Marie Claire, Arena, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and many more. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue that magazine for the year. She also appeared in the 2005 Pirelli Calendar 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."

In February 2008 she was featured on the cover of Esquire magazine, re-creating the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson cover on Esquire's 75th anniversary along with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Selita Ebanks. Model.com featured her at No.3 on the list of the hottest models today. She graced the cover of GQ Magazine April 2008 issue (which brought a record number of web hits for GQ online) and appeared only in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels. Lima was chosen to be a part of People magazine's 100 most beautiful people in the world, sharing that space with her fellow Angels, with whom she also received a star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame" prior to the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. 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.

Victoria's Secret

Lima is probably best known for her work with Victoria's Secret, beginning in 1998. Her first fashion show for the company came a year later, and since being contracted as an Angel in 2000, she has appeared on subsequent shows ever since, with her most notable walk in 2003 as the show opener. Lima has appeared on several television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized "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. 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, with stops in Long Island, Boston, and Miami Beach. She will also be the face of the famous Miracle Bra scheduled to launch in November. To top the year off, Lima will wear the "Fantasy Bra" for the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, In early 2008 Lima renewed her contract with Victoria's Secret, along with Maybelline for 5 more years.

Acting

Lima has always had an interest in acting, but knows she has to study quite a bit before booking any major spots. She plans to take lessons and act full time after her modeling contracts are up, several years from now.

Her first acting role was the wife, alongside Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker in The Follow, one of BMW's short films series titled The Hire, starring Clive Owen.

Lima 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 made her second television acting appearance, appearing on the American television series "Ugly Betty," where she played herself and made friends with the series' title character, played by America Ferrera. According to her publicist, Liza Anderson, "Adriana has always been a huge fan of Ugly Betty and is thrilled for the opportunity to make a guest star appearance."

Endorsements

Lima is also a spokesperson for cosmetics giant Maybelline New York. She is the world's fourth highest paid model as of 2007.

Personal life

Lima is fluent in Portuguese, English, and French, and also speaks a bit of Italian. In her free time, she loves reading novels. Although she has appeared in a few commercials with cars, she has admitted that she has yet to learn how to drive and receive her driver's license.

Lima was shy around boys when she was younger, not receiving her first kiss until she was 17 years old. They were watching a movie during the kiss. Afterwards, he went directly to her mother to ask if he could marry her. In an interview with GQ in the April 2006 issue, Lima told the magazine that she is a devoted Catholic who attends church every Sunday and is a virgin. "Sex is for after marriage," she explained. "They [men] have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't want me." US GQ dubbed her as "The World's Most Voluptuous Virgin." When she was younger, she studied to become a nun and often takes a Bible backstage to read.

She works out regularly. She jumps rope, does cardio, and has a custom-tailored boxing routine. Although she admits to eating healthfully and in the past being on low carb diets, her weakness is meat.

She has been romantically linked to rocker Lenny Kravitz, Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein, and Denny of Timbalada. She is currently engaged to Marko Jarić. They will wed in Brazil in June of 2009. Lima said she wishes to have four children some day.

Lima enjoys listening to classical music; she cites Beethoven as her favorite composer and the piano sonata as her favorite sound. She also enjoys watching black and white films, and cites Bettie Page, Marilyn Monroe, and Sophia Loren as inspirations.