Adriana Lima was born on June 12, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Her father left the family when she was six months old, and Lima was raised by her mother, who at a very young age wanted to work quickly to earn money and lighten the burden for her mother.
With Portuguese, Indigenous Brazilian, African, Japanese, Swiss, and West Indian ancestry, Lima's blue eyes make her exotic.
The gifted Lima speaks four languages: her native language, Portuguese, English, Italian and Spanish.
Although Lima won several beauty pageants in elementary school, she never wanted to become a model. When she was 13 years old, she was spotted by talent scouts while shopping at a large casual shopping mall in her hometown of Bahia, Brazil. Once a friend from school wanted to participate in a modeling contest and didn't want to do it alone, so Lima joined her. Both sent photos, and the tournament organizers only invited Lima to participate in the tournament.
At the age of 15, she participated in Ford's "Brazilian Supermodel" model contest and won first place. Subsequently, she competed in the 1996 Ford Model World Super Model Contest and won second place. At this time, Lima discovered his talent in the modeling industry, she was 1.78 tall, mixed race, exotic looks, and unique looks, so a year later, Lima moved to New York City and signed with an elite modeling agency.
Lima于1997年9月在Anna Sui的纽约时装周秀场上首次亮相，从此一炮而红，她曾为Rosa Cha、Blue man、Fendi , Giles Deacon , Carmen Marc Valvo , Emanuel Ungaro , Baby Phat , Giorgio Armani , Balmain , Bottega Veneta , Sportmax , Vera Wang , Valentino , Miu Miu , Givenchy , Versace , Cividini , Alexandre Herchcovitch , Jason Wu , Marc Jacobs , Christian Dior , Paco Rabanne等奢侈品牌产品走秀。
In September 1998, Lima photographed Marie Claire Brazil's first magazine cover. Her first Vogue cover was the 20th anniversary issue of Vogue Gioiello Italia in September 2000 and the Brazilian edition of Vogue Brazil in October.
The April 2006 cover of GQ was the magazine's best-selling issue of the year, and Lima was the cover girl for this issue, which was one of the best-selling periodicals of the publication's history. GQ called her "the sexiest beauty in the world."
Lima's perfect facial features, height of 1.78, wild and uninhibited temperament, in one fell swoop, she has become the most famous model in the world, she has been in the United States, Spain, the United Kingdom, France and many other countries of some of the most famous international magazine cover person, such as: "Vogue", "Harper's Bazaar", "ELLE", "Grazia", "GQ", "Numero", "Playboy", "Cosmopolitan", "Esquire".
In 2006, Lima ranked fifth among the world's highest-paid supermodels. From 2007 to 2008, she was named the fourth highest-paid supermodel in the world by Forbes magazine.
In 2008, she was on the cover of GQ again, this time with a record number of visits to the publication's website.
In February 2008, Lima appeared on the cover of Esquire, recreating the iconic cover of Angie Dickinson from 1966 on the occasion of Esquire's 75th anniversary. She appeared in the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair wearing only shoes, diamonds, and gloves to celebrate her 20th anniversary as a supermodel with her fellow Victoria's Secret Angels.
In 2009, Lima returned to the haute couture runway for Givenchy. In the same year, after a visit to Turkey, she signed a contract with Doritos, which appeared in print and television commercials that began airing in Turkey in April of the same year. She was also the face of Givenchy's Fall/Winter 2009 collection.
She became the face of Donna Karan's spring 2012 advertising campaign, but the promotional photo at the time, which was a photo of Lima posing in front of a crowded crowd of local Haitians, came out and was accused of being racist.
Artist Richard Phillips on the pavement of Brazil's famous Copacabana for the Visionaire no. Photographs of Lima were taken. In an interview, Phillips said of Lima: "You meet her and she has a generous spirit and a very friendly, relaxed attitude, and then all of a sudden, the lights come on and you realize that you are working with this absolutely extraordinary person who has the power to create these powerful photographs. ”
She made her second appearance in the Pirelli Calendar, setting the record for the first pregnant woman in the 2013 edition of the Calendar.
In July 2013, Spanish fashion house Desigual announced that Lima would be the brand's face during the spring/summer '14 Barcelona Fashion Week, following Bar Refaeli's role in the same role in January 2013. In April 2014, Lima was selected as the first brand ambassador for the 30th anniversary of the Desigual brand. She was appointed "la vida es Chula ambassador", which is Desigual's motto "Life is cool". Borja Castresana, Desigual's Director of Marketing, said Adriana "embodies our values and represents the confident, optimistic, energetic women of Desigual." The campaign was launched on April 20, 2014, with TV commercials in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Belgium.
In 2013, she was the third-highest-paid supermodel on Forbes with a revenue of $6 million. In 2014, she became the world's second-highest-paid supermodel with a revenue of $8 million.
In June 2014, she returned to her role as Maybelline New York Spokesperson. She was the face of the brand from 2003 to 2009. Lima was also selected as the new face of Wu Jigang's Fall/Winter 2014 campaign. Jason Wu said of Lima: "She's sexy and has a feline strength that feels like a good fit for these clothes. And she's got eyes! She's like our very own Bianca Jagger. Adriana is the new interpretation of a supermodel – she hails from a different country. "At the end of the day, these ads are about women and sexiness, and I will continue to choose the women who inspire me. ”
In 2015, she became the face of Vogue Eyewear and Marc Jacobs perfume Decadence. In the same year, she was named the second-highest-paid supermodel in the world with a revenue of $9 million.
Lima is probably best known for her collaboration with Victoria's Secret. She made her Victoria's Secret show in 1999 at the age of 17 and has been on Victoria's catwalk since signing as an angel in 2000. Lima opened fashion shows in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2010, and in 2012, less than two months after giving birth to her second child, she became Victoria's opener model for the fifth time.
In 2004, she was one of five angels to promote Victoria's Secret across the country on the "Angels Across America" tour, the other four being Tyra Banks, Heidi Crumb, Gisele Bundchen and Alexandre Ambrosio.
In 2008, she appeared in the Miracle Bra, which was relaunched in November. Lima capped off the year with a "Fantasy Bra" at the 2008 Victoria's Secret fashion show. Created by American jewelry designer Martin Katz, this bra features 3,575 black diamonds, 117 certified 1 carat (200 mg) round white diamonds, 34 rubies, and two droplets of black diamonds totaling 100 carats (20 grams). The bra is valued at over $5 million and weighs over 1,500 carats (300 grams).
In 2010, she wore the Fantasy Bra again, known as Victoria's Secret Bombshell Fantasy Bra. Weighing 142 carats, this bra is set with 60 carats of white diamonds, 82 carats of topaz and sapphires and is valued at $2 million. In 2014, she wore the dream bra again with Alessandra Ambrosio, each worth $2 million.
In July 2016, Victoria's Secret launched its own sports bra line, Victoria Sport, with Lima filming an ad with models Elsa Hosk, Romee Strijd, Jasmine Tookes and Josephine Skriver.
In November 2018, Lima participated in the last Victoria's Secret fashion show after attending his 18th fashion show for the brand.
Voted one of the 100 most beautiful people in the world by People magazine, Lima shares this location with the angels and received a star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame" with the angels before the 2007 Victoria's Secret fashion show. In the same year, she reached No. 7 on the "Gangs of Men's 100 Sexiest Women of 2007" list.
Lima was also named to Maxim's "Hot 100" in 2007, ranking 53rd. In 2005, she was voted number one by visitors to the men's lifestyle website AskMen.com, and in 2006 and 2007 she was ranked 4th, in 2008 she was ranked 10th, in 2009 she was named "Sexiest Girl on Earth" in the Spike Guys Choice Awards. Since November 2008, Models.com has ranked her number one on the list of "Sexiest Models". In July 2011, she reached fourth place on the site's "Money Girl" list. The site also included her on the "super sexy" list. With only 8 supermodels, the list is about supermodels who transcend the boundaries of the fashion industry and gain public recognition both inside and outside of fashion. In 2010, she was voted the eighth sexiest woman in the world by FHM. FHM ranked her 6th in 2009, 21st in 2008 and 4th in 2007.
From 2001 to 2003, Lima dated the American singer Lenny Kravitz. They moved in together and got engaged, but the age difference between the two was 17 years, and Lima was a devout believer and did not accept prenuptial**, and eventually the two divorced.
On Valentine's Day 2009, Lima married Serbian NBA player Marko Jaric in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In May 2009, it was reported that Lima had applied for Serbian citizenship but had never been approved, and that Jaric and Lima had two daughters. Because of the gap between the identities of the two, one is the world's No. 1 model, the other is an NBA role player, and there is also a huge difference in income, and finally on May 2, 2014, Lima and Jaric announced their separation after five years of marriage, and completed their divorce in March 2016.
In 2021, Lima began dating filmmaker Andrea Lemmers. On February 18, 2022, Lima announced on TikTok that she was about to welcome her third child and her first with Lemmers. She shared an ultrasound video and wrote that her baby "will be born in the fall of 2022." In August 2022, Lima gave birth to a son.
After retiring from the modeling industry, when the 42-year-old Lima returned to people's attention in November 2023, she could no longer see the shadow of the sexiest model in the world, and her puffy face and horizontally expanded body made her attract a lot of criticism on social platforms.
While it is normal for women to gain weight during pregnancy, Adriana is known for her amazing figure, and with the birth of her first two children, her figure quickly returned to normal.
Dr. Jennifer Levine, a plastic surgeon in New York, said Lima may have taken some surgeries that could cause Adriana's appearance to be "swollen," including fillers and brow lift surgeries — though she noted that the alleged swelling could also be caused by medications or health problems caused by medications. "Her face looked particularly swollen, around her eyes and mouth, her eyes looked smaller, her eyebrows were angled unnaturally and her smile wasn't very sincere," she explained. "As she ages, there may be some changes in her face," Dr. Levine continued, adding, "Some of these changes can also be caused by medications or health issues."
"She may have used fillers, threads, and some neuromodulators at the same time. "It's also possible that she had brow lift surgery," she continued, mentioning the extreme tilt on one side of Adriana's eyebrows. This, she explains, "can be achieved with PDO threads, which are placed under the skin and have barbs that help lift and reposition the tissue." ”
Dr. Rahi Sarbaziha, a cosmetic doctor in Beverly Hills, California, agrees that Adriana may have undergone PDO thread surgery, a procedure that uses dissolvable sutures to lift the skin, before opting for other procedures. "It looks like she may have escalated to eyebrow surgery to create sharp, angled eyebrows," Dr. Rahi said. "It's also likely that the surgery was performed recently, and the swelling hasn't subsided." He added, "It can take up to a year for the swelling to subside." ”
Dr. Rahi explained that she appeared to have "significant fillers on her lips and cheeks, and some sort of neurotoxin in the forehead and eyebrow area". The aesthetic expert continued: "In my opinion, she has had a lot of surgeries, but all of them are of high quality. ”
"She doesn't have any visible pores or scars, so I think she underwent some skin rejuvenation surgery, such as microneedling, to keep her skin plump and hydrated," Dr Rahi said. He was referring to minimally invasive procedures that stimulate collagen to stay alive and make the skin look youthful.
But she eventually responded. Adriana said, "Highlight your motherly sensuality and embrace your transformed look". She captioned a photo in which she looked sexy in a gold dress. The supermodel simply wrote: "And just like that, she's back".