Adriana Lima

Adrianna Lima, who is this beautiful creature, and why is she famous ?

As a spokeswoman for Victoria's Secret, Guess and Armani, Adriana Lima has become one of the most in-demand runway models in the world. She has also walked the catwalk for designers Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, and Ralph Lauren. When she's not making men throughout the world drool, she's helping Brazilian orphans in her native land and dabbling in acting. It's also rumored that Adriana married NBA player Marko Jaric in a secret ceremony on Valentine's Day in 2009.

Adriana Francesca Lima was born on June 12, 1981, in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The blue/gray-eyed Brazilian beauty can attribute her exotic good looks to her French, Portuguese, Native American, and Caribbean heritage.

The 27-year-old beauty, who has been a Victoria's Secret ''Angel'' for eight years, is planning to marry Serbian basketball player Marko Jaric, who plays for U.S. team the Memphis Grizzlies, next June, reports The Daily Telegraph.

The stunner's first fashion show for Victoria's Secret was in 1998 and since being contracted as an Angel in 2000, she has appeared on subsequent shows ever since.
She starred alongside Mickey Rourke in 2001 film The Follow and played herself in an episode of Ugly Betty this year.
Meanwhile, Adriana was also in news for being the face of world's most expensive bra costing 5 million dollar. It wasn't Adriana Lima's IQ score that caught the attention of Victoria's Secret's talent scouts. That drop-dead gorgeous body of hers seems like a gift from the heavens. Sexy? Most definitely, yes.

Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue of the year. She ranked No. 7 on FHM's 100 Sexiest Women 2007 and was chosen as one of People magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful People in the World in May 2007. In June 2007, she was named the Hottest Girl on the Planet at the first Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards.

Adriana Lima's not just another "hot chick" from Brazil, she's so much more.

Adriana Lima may not have wanted to be a supermodel when she was growing up, but lo and behold, she's strutting her stuff for magazines and fashion shows that are seen by millions. Paris, Milan and New York are very different from her hometown of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, but Adriana seems to take it all in stride.
She was voted AskMen's Most Desirable Woman in 2005, ranked No. 4 in 2006, No. 4 in 2007, and No. 19 in 2008. Despite all the accolades for her sexiness, the devout Catholic has always insisted that she's saving sex for marriage and was even cheekily named "The World's Most Voluptuous Virgin" by GQ. In some messed up way, that makes us all the more interested.
Adriana Lima has landed major campaigns for GUESS, Victoria's Secret, Maybelline, and Fendi. Still, it shouldn't be that surprising; after all, we've been experiencing an incredible Brazilian invasion of models like Gisele Bundchen, Ana Beatriz Barros and Alessandra Ambrosio for years now.

Her climb from obscurity to glam girl occurred after placing second in the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest at the age of 13. Three years later, she headed to one of the fashion centers of the world, New York, and signed with Elite Model Management. Once there, her modeling portfolio began to expand exponentially after appearing in Vogue Italy, as well as in Vogue UK, I-D UK, and Marie Claire Brazil. Adriana also appeared in Vogue U.S., Germany and UK, and in Marie Claire Italy in 1999.

As for fashion shows, the Vogue girl has walked down the runway for the following designers: Cynthia Rowley, Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Betsey Johnson, Girls Rule, Richard Tyler, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Randolph Duke, Ralph Lauren, and Valentino, just to name a few.
But one of Adriana Lima's most notable catwalk appearances was in the Victoria's Secret summer 2000 swimwear catalog (shot in Cannes), where the Brazilian beauty shared the spotlight with a bevy of supermodels such as Heidi Klum and Laetitia Casta.

Those who have not had the pleasure of seeing Adriana Lima in a fashion spread may have caught her in advertisements for Anna Sui Jeans, bebe, Gasoline, Mossimo, BCBG, Keds, GUESS, and XOXO.

But it's her job as a Victoria's Secret Angel that has fueled her fame the most, especially after appearing in network television's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2001 and 2003.

In 2001, she also appeared in the short film The Follow with Mickey Rourke.
Before her modeling days, Adriana Lima always hoped to help children, and thanks to her popularity, she has been able to work with orphans in Brazil.

Whether you have seen her in an ad, on the runway or photographed by some of the world's greatest photographers -- such as Steven Meisel, Peter Lindbergh or Ellen von Unwerth -- Adriana Lima's beauty speaks volumes, which is why Adriana topped AskMen.com's list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women in the world in 2005 and stayed on that list for three straight years. She ranked at No. 4 on the Top 99 Most Desirable Women in 2007.
adriana lima is named no. 10 in 2008 top 99
In 2008, Adriana Lima starred in a 30-second Super Bowl ad, and the Brazilian babe was also voted No. 10 on AskMen.com's Top 99 of 2008. She also appeared on the cover of Esquire, as well as renewed her contracts with Victoria's Secret and Maybelline and guest-starring on the hit show Ugly Betty.