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 is black, white & yellow.
She is black, white and yellow.
Be mixed doesn’t make someone beautiful, and Adriana has obvious African features, which makes her a mulatto,not mestiza.
People can compare her with this brazilian mestiza:
http://www.cinema10.com.br/upload/personalidades/personalidades_2484_Dira%20Paes.jpg
Adriana is not a mulatto woman like Halle Berry and Paula Patton. Other mixtures make Adriana become “exotic”, I think in Brazil she is not so exotic. I found photos of other Brazilian women with similar ethnicity:
http://mdemulher.abril.com.br/imagem/beleza/interna-slideshow/paloma-bernardi-maquiagem-6201.jpg
http://www.mulher360.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/772.jpg
they have unique beauty, I think the term “brazilian”should be also a ethnicity like Puerto Rican.
Japanese? smh NO. Native American? (NO. she is from Bahia so how is she native american?) ummm how is she brazilian and you havent mentioned PORTUGUESE?
So far the only thing up there that is correct is African. (she has said numerous times, her grandmother is black as night.)
I have to admitt i can’t see African, Japanese in her but i can see the rest and she looks Brazilian but she’s got such a beautiful mix!
Victoria, you must be white or non-black, its soo very odd to me that other races cannot see African. The African in her is clear as day, mouth in particular and cheeks. Then her hair is big and curly bushy , she straightens her hair.
@midori29
(Then her hair is big and curly bushy , she straightens her hair.)
Actually saw a picture of her hair like that,it surprised me.