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.


Spokesmodel of Guess?. Ranked #57 in Maxim's Hot 100 2003, ahead of Naomi Watts and behind Salma Hayek. Ranked #1 on Askmen.com's Most Desirable Women (2004). Ranked #75 on Askmen.com's Most Desirable Women (2003). A favorite model of photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, she appears prominently in Von Unwerth's 1998 book "Wicked." Her favorite musician is Lenny Kravitz. She has also appeared in one of his music videos, "Yesterday Is Gone". Ranked #1 on Askmen.com's 99 Most Desirable Women (2005). Ranked and Voted #4 by AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006 Named #27 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006). She was raised by her mother, Maria da Graça Lima (social worker). Ranked #53 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list. She lists West Side Story (1961) and Central do Brasil (1998) (aka "Central Station"), among her favorite movies. According to People.com, Lima secretly married NBA player Marko Jaric in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Valentine's Day, 2009. [2010] Represented in New York City and Paris by Marilyn Agency. Married Serbian basketball player, Marko Jaric in a private ceremony in 2009.