A tall and athletic South African model, Candice has recently joined the Angels of Victoria's Secret,? has appeared in leading magazines and walked runways ?all around the world. Like her friends Behati, Adriana, Lily, Erin and Rosie
Born on October 20, 1988 in Mooi River,
South Africa, Candice Swanepoel
is one of the Angels of Victoria’s Secret and walks the runway for the biggest fashion houses. She started his career in modeling very early, at 15, after being scouted at a flea market in Durban. Following various castings between London and New York, the South African beauty in just one year became the face of Fornarina and Top Shop, and graced the cover of Vogue Italia. She has walked the runway for all the big brands: Fendi, Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Versace, Prada. In 2013 she made Forbes’ top ten of the world’s best-paid models, having earned 3.3 million dollars. The real turning point in her career came in 2007, when she started doing runway shows for Victoria’s Secret.
In 2010 she joined the “Angels”
of the well-known lingerie brand and became popular with a wider audience. Everybody wants her and loves her, but her heart belongs to Brazilian model Hermann Nicoli, since she was 17. The two met in Paris and are still together, despite the difficulties of handling their rising careers. For love, the blonde angel has even learnt Portuguese and often visits Brazil, that she considers her second home after New York. A girl next door, ready to make sacrifices to defend her love and protect her private life from gossip and the paparazzi. Only in 2014 Candice started appearing in public with her stunning boyfriend, on the red carpet, but especially on her Instagram profile,
@angelcandices
. She likes to share with her fans (5.7 millions) private shots, funny and often very sexy.
It took her some time, however, to become aware of her body and to be confident about it. ≪I know it may sound strange, but I am very shy and it wasn’t easy for me to start doing runway shows≫ she said. As a young girl she was teased for being so tall (5’10) and thin. We wonder what her former classmates think of her today! She loves her work because it enables her to travel to wonderful places and stay in luxury hotels. She complains, despite being an early riser, about having to wake up at 4.30am. She has been the face of several fragrances and has fronted numerous ad campaigns, for Miu Miu, Tom Ford, Max Factor and others, she has worked on bizarre and dangerous shoots, with wild and poisonous animal, or on the verge of a precipice, but maybe the toughest challenge is carrying around her heavy angel wings. In particular in 2013, when she had the honor of wearing the ?Fantasy Bra: the super-precious bra scattered with ?diamond, rubies and sapphires. The bra donned by Candice was worth 10 million dollars.
Luckily
the blonde top loves to do sports and keeps fit doing boxing 4 times a week
. In the fashion world she has found not only love, but also lots of friends: fellow models ?Erin Heatherton, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Lily Aldridge, Behati Prinsloo with whom she likes to joke and laugh on set, backstage and in her private life.
Her role model, though, are the 90s supermodels like Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford
. Despite her brilliant career Candice has still many dreams: setting up a charitable association to defend abused animals, studying interior design, learning to surf, having children. ≪I am often unaware of all the things I do? she revealed in an interview -? because after a while you get used to it, but when one day I will tell my children what I did for a living, I am sure it will sound amazing!≫. In the meantime, she keeps on living her glamorous life, and she cannot do without: fruits, Coco Pops and pain au chocolat.
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Giovanna Errore
Published:
07/31/2015 - 06:30
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