Adriana Lima: Top Celebrities

Adriana Lima: Top Celebrities

AdrianaFrancesca is aBrazilian model, best known as a Victoria'sSecret Angel. She started his career from the "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, at the age of15. She took second place, well that’s not bad because the competition was tough.Lima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beautypageants in elementary school. She entered in that modeling contest becauseof her friend, after sending sponsors the pictures; they were soon called forthe competition because they were selected for it. After three years Adriana FrancescaLima moved to New York City and signed with EliteModel Management. She got famous very quickly and she appeared in numerousinternational editions of Vogueand Marie Claire. She also performs in manycat walks from famous designer include, GiorgioArmani and Valentino. She also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess? , Images.

Adriana Lima ranked in the top five of Forbes' lists of the 20 highest-earning models in theworld. She is married to a basket ball player Marko Jarić. AdrianaLima got her first role of wife in TheFollow, alongside Mickey Rourkeand Forest Whitaker. She alsoappeared in the series How I Met YourMother in November 2007. In 2008, Lima appeared on theAmerican television series UglyBetty, where she played herselfand made friends with the series' title character, Betty.

Lima is probablyparamount known for her vocation with Victoria'sSecret. She has appeared on succeedingshows ever since. Lima has appeared onseveral television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized. FurtherLima hosted a television program “What Is Sexy?”, she hasappeared in campaigns for Anna Sui Jeans,Bebe, Gasoline, Mossimo, Victoria's Secret, BCBG, Keds, and XOXO, and has appeared on the covers ofmagazines such as Vogue and Marie Claire. She has appeared in the Italian TIM mobile Commercials.

Lima is a religiousCatholic who goes to church everySunday. Some time she was noticed reading bible at the backstage. She told GQ that she was a virgin. "Sex is for after marriage,"she explained. "They [men] have torespect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don'twant me.” She also did charitable work for orphanage, "Caminhos da Luz"(Ways of Light), located in herhometown. She gives aids for the orphans,expanded the orphanage and buys clothes for poor children in Salvador. She also went to a hospitalin Istanbul for children fighting leukemia, for helping them.