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
She married a 6ft 7 white guy!
I thought she was only mulatto!
She’s made very Portuguese she’s nothing of African black or Asian
I believe she is Portuguese, African and native american, but not asian. Her hair is naturally curly and her lips and nose has african influncies
No,She’s Nothing African really,the mulatta (african & brazilian portuguese) are dark skin,she is clear skin!
You are stupid. Adriana has recent African heritage.
Angel Syrene, most part Africans have clear skin, they are not dark, most black Brazilians lie to be whiter.
@Angel Syrene
(No,She’s Nothing African really)
So it doesn’t matter to you,that the woman says she part African?
her hair is not nauturally curly, her lips and nose are also seen among the native american groups of Brasil you moron.
jarocho, Adriana straightens her hair, you have heard of flat Iroans, her hair is curly.
I doubt she is part Japanese. Why did she leave out that she is part Portuguese? Where did the name “Lima” come from? It is certainly not Swiss, African, Japanese, or Native American.
It’s an English name. (houseofnames.com)
She denies her Italian and Portuguese side and claims Japanese,this make me want to laugh.
I thought Adriana would be part Portuguese. I mean, her surname is Portuguese, isn’t it?
Why do you think she is lying about being part Japanese?
Previously, she claimed to have Portuguese, Dutch, African and Amerindian ancestry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-race_Brazilian#Famous_mixed-race_Brazilians
I love you, me.
Concentrations of Japanese people in Brazil are Mostly found in the southeast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilian
Adriana Lima is of Bahia, have 0.26% of Asian people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia#Demographics
I wonder why she wouldn’t mention her Portuguese roots? I don’t get it. Is she trying to sound more exotic or something?
Yes, I think she’s trying to sound more exotic.Many brazilians are ashamed of their portuguese roots.
You didn’t consider this possibility me. Her name Lima, could have come from her African or Native Indigenous side. In Latin America, African and Native slaves where force to take the surnames of Portuguese and Spanish, maybe French or other. Your getting your info out of Wikipedia? Do you know how many people have edited stuff there, and information is changed, almost everyday. Another possibility, Japanese are found in the southeast of Brazil you say. Her Japanese relative could have traveled and visited Bahia and given birth there? Or her family could have been of the .26% percent.
Right,many blacks and natives of Latin America have names like Gomes,Mendes,Rodriguez,Rodrigues, Silva, Santos, Lima,Souza.That does not mean that they are from Portuguese, Italian and Spanish descent
YOU ARE STUPID
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BRAZILIAN PEOPLE SPEAK PORTUGUESE
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SHE IS NOT PART -PORTUGUESE
me:you say that of big bullshits !!