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
Wow. First time I see her I joke to my aunt “she looks like she got black in her”. I joke but now I was accurate. She is a example of how beautiful the mixing of races can be (Excuse my english).
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN!
SHE’S NOT A BRAZILIAN PARDO!
80% of the people from her city – Salvador – are blacks. There are many blacks (light and dark) with blue or green eyes. I’m 100% that both her parents are mixed, and very probably, one of them are mulatto. She’s a model, she use a lot of make up and skin treatments, that makes her skin lighter. She’s pardo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo). An example: http://img717.imageshack.us/i/camilapitanga291008g.jpg/
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check how dark she looks on ugly betty episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoZGipp1fxg
But Adriana doesn’t seem to be black. She looks WHITE. Her skin is white, and she has light eyes.
In case you haven’t noticed, in this country people who have any measurable amount of African ancestry are considered black. I don’t think it should be that way but she is not white either.