Adriana Lima
Lima in 2010, Anton Oparin / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Date of Birth: 12 June, 1981
Ethnicity: Brazilian [Portuguese, some Indigenous, Swiss, African, and Japanese]
Adriana Lima is a Brazilian model and actress. She was a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 1999 to 2018. She has also worked for Maybelline cosmetics, clothing brand Desigual, the Beachwear collection of Italian brand Calzedonia, the ready-to-wear collection of Italian brand Sportmax, IWC, Puma, and Chopard. She has been the world’s second highest-paid model. She is 5′10″.
Adriana is the daughter of Maria das Graças Lima, a social worker, and Nelson Torres, a carpenter. She was raised in Castelo Branco, Salvador, by her mother. She speaks Portuguese, English, Italian, and Spanish. A picture of Adriana’s father can be seen here. A picture of Adriana’s mother can be seen here.
She stated on Fashion television that she is of Swiss, African, and Indigenous heritage. She has also said:
I’m [an] Afro-Brazilian… and my family [is also] mixed with Japanese, Black… and West Indian.
Her surname, Lima, is Portuguese. Brazil has a large Japanese community, established there since the early 1900s. Some sites say that Adriana also has French ancestry.
Adriana has two children with her former husband, Serbian professional basketball player Marko Jarić; and a son with her partner, film producer Andre Lemmers.
Adriana’s maternal grandfather was named Bertoldo Fontes Lima.
One of Adriana’s grandmothers is named Julia.
A DNA test that Adriana appeared to post on her Instagram stated that her genetic ancestry includes:
*63.5% European
——–*30.6% Spanish & Portuguese
——–*24.8% Broadly Southern European
——–*2.9% Broadly European
——–*2.2% Broadly Northwestern European
——–*1.8% British & Irish
——–*0.6% Italian
——–*0.5% Ashkenazi Jewish
——–*0.1% Greek & Balkan
beauty!
Some brazilians claim to be biracial, tri-racial or so when it might not be accurate. Probably because – generally speaking – many tend to ignore their actual origins.
I do believe that she is mixed, but I severely doubt about the japanese part (if I’m allowed to doubt about somebody else’s ancestry…). Same for Marlon Teixeira.
Apart from that, they are both stunning. ;)
Of course. Most of the time when Japanese mix with other races for example with caucasian or of hispanic descent, because that is what I am (Japanese and Cuban), the child either looks like both parent or one of the parent. Some times the Asian features washes out all together. With adrienne Lima one of her parent or grand parent was probably hapa, one white and asian mix who probably intermingled with another race. That is why she is so beautiful because she has all those cultures in her.
Her father looks very European, he’s who Adriana got her light eyes from. He’s also the one i believe has the distant African heritage based on other pictures, but in this picture European is the only thing i see.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJGUWjHguv_/
And he actually looks like he has Swiss heritage like she said, not just European ancestry from the Iberian region.
As for Adriana’s mother, it’s believable she could be part Japanese. She looks mestiza but the monogloid influence could be mixed with the Japanese as well.
https://www.instagram.com/p/_zZhHvs6pv/
are you sure this person (https://www.instagram.com/p/BJGUWjHguv_/) is a man? I don’t think so. There are other pics of Adriana’s father on Google Images, and they show a thin and very tanned man with Caucasian features.
It says ”Happy Father’s Day” in Portuguese. I doubt she would put a photo of her aunt under that caption.
Andrew, that was when his father his young. He changed drastically when he grew up.
Anyways, I think Adriana is like 75% European, then probably 25% native/black. I read the Swiss blood comes from her father, I kind of doubt that as her area is not known for Swiss descendants. She passes as “exotic” white unless she wears her hair naturally curly then you kind of see it.
I am white with curly hair, so the end of your comment makes no sense.
When she was young she dont looked white.
she still doesn’t.. she still looks beautifully mixed.
I remember seeing her in an old picture she had with her grandmother. She was very very dark African woman. I admit when she was much younger you could see the African in her a lot better
Her mother:
http://www.serinsesler.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ad.jpg
father:
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p199/ms310/211471.jpg
I’d say her mother looks mestiza while her father looks mostly white with some black ancestry.
thats what I wrote time ago
are you serious? Both her parents look just white now I’m wondering how much non-European ancestry she really has it has must be less than 10%
When She Was Younger You Could See The Black And Native American In Her. She Just Looks White With A Tan Now.