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
Lima is a very common lastname in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, She’s Native Indian with Portuguese = Mestiza. In Latin America is very common to see mixed races like Natives Indians+Spanish/Germans/Frenchs/Italians etc etc it’s called: MESTIZOS!!
she’s also black and japanese
She is also is of African and Asian descent ..
I think it’s a lie that she is descended from Swiss and Japanese, because she is a poor family in the Brazilian state of Bahia (where most blacks in Brazil) and there are no reports of Swiss and Japanese immigration in Bahia. Surely it must be a descendant of Native Americans, Africans and Portuguese.
you fucking RACIST people are sooo fucking insecure its outrages lol. You people remind of the full breds in my school who kept telling me i had to choose which side to be on. full black people ALWAYS wanna take credit for somthing that they only parcially created. im sorry but its true, shes not full black shes half like me. stop telling people what they have to be
hmmm, maybe you shouldn’t stereotype others by using “always” to describe how certain people react to something. and, there is no such thing as “full black” or full anything. after all, it seems counterproductive to stereotype others when you obviously are a victim of stereotypes.
Who are you screaming at and why. I do not see anything where BLACKS are taking all the credit . Calm down not that serious she consider herself Afrolatino aND i AM TIRED of whites like you screaming racism and there isnt any .
I love Adriana Lima! I thought she was Native-Brazilian,African-Brazilian,French,Portuguese,Japanese,and Carribean. but still,she’s so BEAUTIFUL!
Also west indian is a “black” race also, so she’s majorly black. Her race really shouldn’t be an issue.
Now Megan Fox, she’s gorgeous, she’s an example of someone who is mixed with black like most white Americans.
M.Fox=mixed like white Americans
A.Lima=mixed like black Americans
Simple.
Americans will probably never fully understand how things work in other countries. In many countries, a person may be called “white” in a much more literal form as in having white skin, some people are even considered “brown”. America is the main country that labels “white”&”black” by features. Obviously because it has a much more racist history.
Addy, you idiot. West indian is not “Black” at all. Don’t try to force a color on people that are diverse, and different than what people would normally consider people of African ancestry.
West Indian is more often than not, a mixture of African and indigenous blood. Lima is considered “white” in her native Brazil. Only Black and White Americans feel the psychotic need to label people black, even if the black ancestor in question dates back to antiquity.
Since when is Megan Fox black? O_o
Not true at all. True, these labels exist in America, but they also exist all over the world. It’s called demography and census. Else, we wouldn’t know that Brazil has a “black” population of 7.61%, a “brown” population of43%, and a “white” population of 41%. Speaking of Brazil and what Lima would be labeled in her native country, they base their racial classifications off of skin tone. Socially speaking, the darker the skin, the lower the people find themselves on the economic and social ladder. This is not an opinion, but a fact, which is true in most countries with diverse populations. It’s also known that some of these people that you mention with black ancestry that “dates back to antiquity” hide that fact so that they can ascend up that social ladder. So to say that only black and white americans “label people black even when that ancestor in question dates back to antiquity” is way off base because if other countries don’t do the same verbally, they do it subconsciously and ingrain it into their class structure. Just saying.
This is true “Think Big” its off off skin tone which is NOT accurate. In my Carribean country we do not label on skin tone because there are midnight black dravidians from India mixed into the black African descent population who are considered caucasian which makes actual “black” categories alot more diverse. So one can be caucasian and African and still be Alek Wek Sudanese black. Its further not accurate to label a light skinned black person as mullato and a dark skinned black person as just black because they both can have an equal amount of admixture and both can be brother and sister.
@midori29
There are millions of black African Caucasoid .The funny thing about Caucasian,it’s actually just a phenotype( It had nothing to do with skin color).However since people have been taught that white and Caucasian/Caucasoid equal the same thing ,fine..Now as I brought up about the Arabs,your labeled Caucasian even if not Caucasian.That’s the policy that in effect,I don’t know why(well I have a good idea ).I’m pretty sure it’s the same with the Dravidians(although many of them are actually Caucasoid) phenotype wise.
Actually, according to the vast majority of the anthropological/science community, people of african ancestry(no matter how minute it may be) are the most diverse people on the planet genetically and aesthetically because they have been around the longest.