Adriana Francesca Lima was born on June 12, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At the tender age of 13, Adriana entered the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest, where her unique beauty, derived from her Native-Brazilian, African-Brazilian, Portuguese, French, and Caribbean heritage, won her second place. Moving to New York at age 16, Adriana joined the Elite Model Management and further pursued her modeling career, landing a campaign for the fashion designer Anna Molinari's clothing line. However, it was her appearance in several Guess? campaigns that gained her the recognition that catapulted her to her status as one of the world's top fashion models. Since then, she has appeared in campaigns for Anna Sui Jeans, Bebe, Gasoline, Mossimo, Victoria's Secret, BCBG, Keds, and XOXO, and has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Vogue and Marie Claire. She consistently appears in the hyped Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, gaining recognition as one of the Victoria's Secret's Perfect 10. In her spare time, Adriana dedicates her services to help orphans in her native Brazil. She has appeared in the Italian TIM mobile Commercials.
Biography Update / From: kara
adriana lima was born june 12 1981 in brazil in her spare time she liked to play with the orphans she was spotted at a shopping mall when she was 13 when she was 15 she entered ford model of the world contest and placed number 2 she appeared on a billboard for guess and her career took off from there she is an extreme roman catholic she keeps her good body for capoeira a martial arts she is in her 20s and still a virgin and from adriana lima herself she was never ingaged to lenny kravits they are just friends in her spare time she loves to read she drops by and helps build part of the orphanage she also buys clothes for the children
