Adriana Lima
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
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To drexxx
It was meant to disrespect,just like that word creamy in Australia
You’re sure about that TJ ??? Do you think that the term mulatto is an “innocent” term ??
It is not used to mean an animal.
She’s so beautiful !!!!! she looks like a doll, so cute !!
But (i know i’ve already said that before) i don’t like the term mulatto at all. I know it presents the persons who are half black half white, but it’s an old term use by the slave masters to discriminate mixed slaves away from black slaves. (“divide for better power”)
Ithink this term is reducing and pejorative, doesn’t it ??
Mulatto come from mule, a sterile animal which is a mixture of a horse and a donkey !!!!
I can’t accept that human beings can be called by an animal’s name !!!!!