Adriana Lima (1981- ) is a Brazilian supermodel. Among Brazilian models only Gisele Bundchen makes more money. Lima is best known as a model for Victoria’s Secret. She is one of its “angels”, one of its Perfect 10 models. In 2003 she opened its television show.
In North America she is better known than the president of Brazil or her home city of Salvador in Bahia.
She is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world. She has made the most beautiful lists of the likes of FHM, Maxim, People, AskMen.com and Spike TV. When she appeared on the cover of GQ magazine in April 2006 it became their best-selling issue ever.
She has blue-green eyes, light brown skin, dark brown or black hair, thick lips and great legs. She is 1.79 metres tall (5 foot 10). Her measurements are 86-58-90 cm (34-23-35 inches), giving her more of a figure than most high fashion models, who tend to be unnaturally thin. She is a mix of Portuguese, French, African and native Indian. In Brazil she is seen simply as white.
She looks hot – yet innocent. In 2006 she told GQ that, following her Catholic beliefs, she was still a virgin: “Sex is for after marriage. Men have to respect that this is my choice. If there’s no respect, that means they don’t want me.” She was first kissed at 17.
She has dated the likes of rock star Lenny Kravitz, the prince of Liechtenstein and baseball player Derek Jeter. She wants a man with a heart more than a man with style or money.
She is not only beautiful but rich. She makes about $4.5 million a year (360,000 crowns) – more than most people make in a lifetime.
She helps orphans in her hometown of Salvador. She has given money to clothe them and help extend an orphanage, Caminhos da Luz (“Roads of Light”). Her father had left her when she was little.
When she is not working she wears a T-shirt and blue jeans.
She loves to lie in the sun by the sea and read books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
She was discovered at age 13 while she was shopping in Salvador. She won Ford’s modelling contest for Brazil and in 1996 came in second worldwide. At age 16 she moved to New York and signed up with Elite, a modelling agency.
In the late 1990s she appeared in fashion magazines like Vogue and Marie Claire, but what got her noticed was when she appeared on a billboard for Vassarette in 2000 in Times Square in the middle of New York. She was wearing only black underwear.
That year she became the face of Guess? jeans. That made her name. From there she went on to work for Victoria Secret, Maybelline, Telecom Italia Mobile and Armani.
She has appeared on the runway for many different designers, like Vera Wang, Emanuel Ungaro and Ralph Lauren.
She appeared in “Yesterday is Gone”, a video by Lenny Kravitz.
See also:
- Adriana Lima – a good fan website in Italian. Great pictures.
- The most beautiful Brazilian women
- fashion model
- Maxim magazine
- Brazil
- New York
- Ildi Silva
she’s pretty
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wow! she is hot
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to know more about the activities helping the orphans in Salvador de Bahia.
Você pode escrever também português.
Obrigado e cumprimentos de Alemanha,
lutz pfitzner
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YOU CANNOT BE GET HOTTER WITHOUT AFRICAN DNA HAHA
AFRICAN QUEEN = 2FACE
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THERE NO WAY HOTTER THAN AFRICAN DNA GIRLS
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i agree with the post above, those physical attributes synonymous with black people are adored in Non whites….man black is beautiful.
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oops meant to say adored by whites…ever wondered why the pout is considered a sexy look in white culture? Because it exagerrates their lips, makes them appear fuller ie more ethnic ie very very very sexy people!! : )I’ll say it again people, women of color rule, black women, latina chicks, they are sexy as all get out.
Oh yeah how about the multi dollar tanning industry..all to achieve what naturally comes to anybody of African descent. Is it just me or is the bullsh**t about Euro beauty is exactly that..bull**&t!!
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she is gorgeous, and your list is just about as perfect as can be, brazil race attitudes are very different from the united states, this particular model would not be considered black, or mixed black white race, she would be considered white or very brazilian “of course that is a liitle racist/or eurocentric, just like americans use “all american” to describe a white person with northern eoropean features, very brazilian or natural brazilian would be someone like jennifer lopez/ who is not brazilian, but for americans they can understand what is meant, j lo is not indian, black, etc, but south european mixed with the indian or black, etc.
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I’m brazilian, I’m black, and I think this comment #8 is very racist. Things are not like this in Brazil. Lots of bad jokes to say people has “foot in kitchen” (our ex-president said that! – to describe people who has some black ascendent at family). Even then, this people consider themselves whites. Seems that everybory who’s consider themselves whites notice the black features at others, and discriminate it. If they was not going to notice it, they was not goint to reconize themselves as white (easy test, go to Orkut.com and see how many brazilians reconize themselves as whites. Or better, ask the question straight when you meet them). They seem to have a scale about what is acceptable and what is not, using their owm eyes.
Come to Sao Paulo, biggest city in Brazil, belonging to the state with the largest number of black people, go to the malls, and search for black salespersons.
Could anybody call a coincidence that dark skinned persons are not hired?
Those auto-reconized white Brazilians in Brazil have lots of pride of their european routes. I dont know how they keep this attitude, once they go out and are reconized just as “brazilians mixed”. Maybe they change their attitude a little, but when they comes back, they keep describing and reconizing themselves as whites, and complaining about how people in US are racist!(some told me that I was in paradise here, because I didn’t know how was the treatment there, in US. I told, yes, I know this, because I feel mistreat everyday right here in my mother land. And guess what, all the times I traveled to US, always felt myself respected! By the way, US is giving a lesson to the world with the election of Obama!)
One right attitude is more important than one thousand words.
As for me, it’s time to Brazil show the numbers. Its time to stop to think that Black people are good to pay taxes, but not good enough to have access to goods.
That’s just some points of a big, big and ugly racist brazilian portrait. And it’s time to change it.
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I have never been to Brazil, but what you say makes sense: everyone drawing the line between white and not-white so that they are on the white side. That might help to explain the disagreement over Adriana Lima’s race.
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y can no1 accept that she is a BEAUTIFUL MIXED RACED girl
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Because in America, where most of the commenters here live, there is no solid idea of being mixed: people try to force you into being black or white. There is little room for an in between.
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i think she’s beautiful and way better looking than the other models. even though she’s thin she has a nice figure as well.
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Merry me
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sexciest girl ever
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If you don’t think she’s part African, go on Youtube and look up “adriana fashion tv” and watch the video. She says, from her own mouth, and I quote, “African, Indian, and Swiss.”
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Umm to the ‘brazilian girl’ who wrote comment 9;I also am Brazilian and I have no idea what you are trying to say about us being recist?! are you sure you live here in Brazil.. because you sound more like an american hater. Brazil is full of mixes, black, white, asian .. it’s probably the country where you see the most of couples of different races. thats why the women here are so beautiful because they are a fix of several races. if you could please explain to me why again you think brazilians are racist MORE so then the states? because from what I recall the US was the country long long ago who had the most slaves, and still are full of narrow minded people who think poorly about other races. I’m not trying to down talk the states I just don’t think you really know what you are talking about.
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to annamarie… Brazil received almost ten times as many slaves as America did, as a Brazilian you should know that blacks or people of reasonable black ancestry are a large portion of brazil’s population. In America blacks barely make 13%. And I think the girl was just implying that even with all those people of African ancestry in brazil they are still facing injustices in the workforce, and politics, based on their ethnicity.. Much unlike America were it’s not tolerated
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I’m not really into supermodels but I’d tap that ass. I don’t why but I just love latinas of all races!!!
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Um okay first its true that white people love every thing about our african culture our music, our style, our men and women they try to copy it as much as possible without completely tellin the world that they are big fans lol anyways i would like to reply to comment 17 US did not recieve the most slaves hell they didnt even treat them the worst they only recieved about 7 to 8% of the slaves from the trade the most of the slaves went to south america and the islands but thats for you to look up also there are clear lines in this country about what black and white are but Most people do not care I have so many blood lines in me thats not even funny lol like the fact that she owns her african roots
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If you ask me, few folks in Brazil can make a claim to being pure white. It’s one of the most mixed places in the world, but the fact that some Brazilians want to describe themselves as white means that the designation “white” still carries status and privilege in Brazilian society. All you have to do is to visit the favelas in Rio to know that the residents there are disproportionately dark, meaning disproportionately of African descent. I’ve been there, and trust me I didn’t see a whole lot of folks with light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes in the favelas. If we want to get technical in this discussion, all of us are African. That’s where the first humans walked the earth. I do hope that white Brazilians get over their superiority complex before the 2016 Olympic Games, though. The whole world will be watching, if you know what I mean. The other lens into the race relations of a nation is television, which is a projected reflection of a society. I don’t think I saw one black or African-looking television news anchor on any of the Brazilian television networks while I was there.
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I’ve been there, and trust me I didn’t see a whole lot of folks with light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes in the favelas.
Next time you come, visit the favelas of the south.
I’m not trying to claim racism doesn’t exist in Brazil, nor that it’s not serious. And yes, even in the south, their are a disproportionate number of black and brown people living in favelas.
But if you’re like most gringos, Toro Negro, when you say you’ve “been to Brazil”, that means you’ve been to Rio and Salvador, two cities which are very black and brown in hue.
If you go to the places in Brazil which were mostly colonized by Europeans without large numbers of slaves, you’re going to find plenty of poor white people, believe me.
People forget that Brazil is not a carribean island: it’s a country with near continental dimensions and 180 million people. I have lived her 20 years and I cannot say “I’ve been to Brazil”.
That’s where the first humans walked the earth. I do hope that white Brazilians get over their superiority complex before the 2016 Olympic Games, though. The whole world will be watching, if you know what I mean.
The Olympics will cure our racism, never fear. After all, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics cured the United States’ racism, didn’t it? 😉
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I had no idea Adriana Lima was mixed.
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“If she was fully african she would not be considered pretty, because she has white girl features ( blue eyes, pale skin, and pointy nose) she is called pretty.
Typical white supremacist views of beauty.”
I’m not sure if there’s anything inherently wrong with white people having a preference for white beauty. After all, this website seems heavily geared to promoting black beauty.
White people do generally seem to like their own appearance more than others. Something I’ve noticed though is that what they seem to like best of all is an essentially white phenotype with a little bit of exoticism thrown in. Hence, Angelina Jolie is their favorite actress and Adriana Lima their favorite model.
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She is probabily much more famous abroad than in Brazil.Funny thing:P
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She looks mixed race she doesn’t look Hispanic at all and she isn’t. She proudly declares, French, African and Swiss. Rashida Jones also has light skin, green eyes and auburn hair.
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You think these poore houngry thin girl is one of the prettiest girl in the world??!!… You need to take a look over rio de Janeiro´s 2010 carnival queen, DAM DUDE!! A WILD GIRL!! THAT´S A TRUE WOMAN!!!
SHAYENE CESÁRIO – RAINHA DO CARNAVAL 2010
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“most if not all Brazilians have some degree of African ancestry, minus some “pure” Indians and recently arrived Japanese, both make up a tiny % of the Brazilian population. 86% of Brazil, has African ancestry which surpasses 10%… including most “White” Brazilians. “White” Brazilians are no way in any shape or form 100% European. “
I disagree with your use of quotation marks. Why can’t someone be mixed and white at the same time?
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^ Putting aside the dubiousness of the statistics cited, that is.
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She’s pretty and sexy..very hot!
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In Latin America and Brazil, the population followed a one-drop rule quite different to the one more common in the USA. In that anybody who possessed “European” ancestry could be classified as “White”, depending on their physical appearances.
Wrong. It’s money that lightens in Brazil, not some putative reverse one drop rule.
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“If you have one drop of European blood your automatically “White”, depending on your physical appearance, or at least “mixed”, again depending on your physical appearance, no matter how small the European blood is. ”
This is an incoherent statement. You say there is one drop rule of Euro-ancestry rule, but then you say it’s based on phenotype. It can’t be based on both. In fact, in that country they classify people based on a combination of physical appearance and class standing. They don’t classify people purely based on ancestry.
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Hellesthaeus, the census in Brazil – as in the U.S. – is by self-ascription. The Brazilian government most certainly does not “divide people into two groups”: the people themselves do this. And there is NO agreement on what is, precisely, pardo vs. negro vs. branco. No rule at all.
You do not “automatically become white” if you have “one drop of white blood”. Plenty of mestiços and even a few people who are pheotypically white consider themselves to be black in Brazil.
Furthermore, I’d like to know how you came up with these stats regarding pardos and etc. in the NE. As of yet, we haven’t done a statistically significant DNA mapping of the Brazilian population, so those numbers are at best a guesstimate.
…why doesn’t society consider them Pardo as well?
Because as legions of Brazilian race scholars have pointed out over the decades, race in Brazil is CONTEXTUAL. It does not follow a clear-cut rule. So in a darker community, darker people will be considered “white”.
But one thing is DAMNED clear and has been studied to death: the higher up the class scale one goes, the more Brazilians are liable to consider themselves lighter no matter their phenotype.
Money lightens. This is a common folk phrase in Brazil and has been so since the late 1700s.
…some census include multiple and ludacris classifications…
I wasn’t aware that American rappers were involved in setting up census classifications in Latin America.
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I don’t understand why people think a pointy nose is only a “white” feature. It is not! Black Africans come in all shades, hues, and facial features. I am Black American and my family comes in all shades, on my mother’s side everyone is VERY dark skinned, as dark as ebony wood and we have “pointy” noses. Would you call our features White?? Look at Ethiopians, Somalis, Fulani of West Africa, Tutsi of Rwanda, etc, etc. Don’t forget people that the ENTIRE human race comes from Africa and the only reason we have races is because of our migrations to different parts of the earth.
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I just removed all the comments by Hellestheaeus at his request.
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@ Thad
“I wasn’t aware that American rappers were involved in setting up census classifications in Latin America.”
Too Funny! ! !
@FG
Why can’t someone be mixed and white at the same time?
Good question. I know you posed it in response to somebody else’s comments; however, its been my personal experience that there are A LOT of White people that are mixed. (Especially in Brazil.) Most Americans don’t realize this and it largely goes ignored because of the separatist mindset within American culture. (In contrast, Brazilians are not conditioned the same way as Americans) Many “White” Americans that are mixed are around all the time. (Most passer by’s wouldn’t know ‘said’ whites are ‘mixed’ unless they happened to break out a family album and start divulging details.
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@Color
“Many “White” Americans that are mixed are around all the time. (Most passer by’s wouldn’t know ‘said’ whites are ‘mixed’ unless they happened to break out a family album and start divulging details.”
Well in the US there’s an idea that you have to be purely of European origin to possess white social status. However, it seems that this is not how things have tended to work in practice.
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“Good question. I know you posed it in response to somebody else’s comments; however, its been my personal experience that there are A LOT of White people that are mixed. (Especially in Brazil.) Most Americans don’t realize this and it largely goes ignored because of the separatist mindset within American culture.”
Brazil seems so intriguing. It’s hard to imagine a place where a relatively large chunk of the populace (and the elite) resemble Adriana.
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We call them “white people” here, FG. Or at best, “moreninhas” (slightly brown).
Such a situation is easy to imagine, by the way: imagine black American colorism.
Now image that the color line doesn’t exist, but that the white people are incorporated into the heirarchy, so that you have a continuum from what we call “blue-black” all the way up to what we call “Caspar the ghost”. Now picture that the PEAK of this color heirarchy isn’t Caspar, but slightly golden-brown people like Adriana.
Now you have a picture of Brazilian racism.
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@Thad,
But I thought that they like the blondies most of all down there (which I don’t find objectionable btw).
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Wwhat you have a fetish for and what you claim you are are two different things.
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@ FG & Thad
I like to joke around with the old “blond” thing. There is a phenomenon I’ve touched on in other threads that I have dubbed the “Xuxa Factor”.
I have a saying, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but that don’t make it pretty!” The Xuxa factor is similar: Well, apparently this is ‘sort of’ not true in Brazil. Take the same girl, a photo if you will, and make the only difference blond hair or black hair. I’m willing to bet many men would select the blond hair as being more attractive. (Obviously not me!!! LOL)
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Oh, definitely.
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http://ethnicelebs.com/adriana-lima
Adriana Lima has said herself that she is Black (African), Indian, Swiss and Japanese. I’ve never seen a video or an interview in which she said she was part French or Portuguese.
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I’m a bit late to this party. 😉
Adriana is beautiful, but I’ve never understood the hype. There are prettier girls. I find women who are both slender AND curvy to be most attractive. She is just rail-thin, without any shape or soft curves. She is still gorgeous but not as special as people make her out to be. She simply has what some would call “exotic beauty”.
I agree with FG…there are definitely White Americans of mixed ancestry. My mother’s supervisor is one. He claims to be “pure” Caucasian, but his phenotype indicates that there is something else. Some people have actually wondered whether he is part black.
My husband’s mother claims Native American blood…Cherokee, to be specific. She has thick dark hair and hazel eyes. I’m not sure if her claims are true because so many people claim Native ancestry when they don’t have it.
Anyway, she still considers herself to be white. She has no knowledge of Native American culture.
It’s funny because whites can claim Native blood and still be considered “white”. But if a person has African ancestry, they are immediately considered “black” in the U.S.
That’s the one-drop rule for you! 😉
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I have a similar heritage to Adriana Lima and a similar look, but I’m a little less glamorous and a lot poorer. I’m 1/8 Afro-Jamaican, 1/8 Afro-Cuban, 1/4 Cherokee, 1/8 Choctaw, 1/8 Scotch-Irish Travelers, and 1/4 French Jewish and a practicing Muslim. I don’t see myself as white, but some black sisters do when they see me walking with a black man. On paper the one drop rule might be, but the truth is America IS a three-tiered society in reality, not a two-tiered one. If Barack Obama was any darker, stronger, or less apologetic; he not only would never have been president, he would have been killed but I could have respected him like I respect and admire Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X.) The sad truth in America is still that the darker you are, the harder it is to get up. It is much easier for me to get up than my half-brothers and sister whose mothers were black. But a lot of this is from within the culture, not outside. Anyway, I really don’t care if people consider her white or not. She’s beautiful, and opinions are like a**holes-we all have at least one and they all smell bad.
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I find all these comments interesting about the beautiful people of Brazil. Here’s one for you: I am African-American and most of my roots on both sides of my family are from Mississippi. On my mom’s side: African, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chinese, German. On my father’s side: African, Cherokee, Irish. A whole lot of mixing it up down in the land of cotton – and it went on a lot more than people care to mention in them backwoods. Many folks in America like to say that African Americans with Native blood got it mainly because Native Americans, especially in the South, kept slaves. That may be true, but what is truer, is that they freely intermarried. Many Chinese men lived in the Delta area in the 1800s and took Black and Native American women to wife, that’s where I inherited the Chinese. The point is, when Nature gets down to it, it isn’t exactly looking at color!
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some people say she looks like a castiza but i have seen many castizas but they dont really look like that. she is very pretty but she has that quadroon even more likely octoroon look. i know girls that are a quarter black the only difference is that she is more lighter skin n her black features are not tht apparent.
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she is very attractive….. ..but i don’t get it why people are trying to call her black…..she may have some distance black ancestry but this woman looks white. It just like trying to call someone who has 5-20% black blood black. Most people who are mixed to that extent start looking like the predominately white race.
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So many black racist comments here. Adriana don’t even looks mixed, she is a white women.
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Really, beauty.
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