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
Adriana Lima’s mother looks like a mestizo, while her father looks mainly European but I believe he also has African too. I Don’t know where the Japanese comes into play, but Adriana states she is also part Japanese and I wouldn’t just dismiss it. She is also Portuguese. So: African, Native American, Swiss, Portuguese, and Japanese. She definitely has an exotic look to her. My favorite Victoria’s secret model.
In one interview she’s saying Japanese, in the other she’s saying African. I think she’s claiming these ethnicities so she can be seen as ‘exotic’.
She does look like a classical European and native Indian mix (just those) if anything. So do her parents – I don’t see any African or Japanese in them (lol, come on)…
The sites that claim her to be Portuguese have to be true. I’ve seen so many Portuguese women that resemble her.
I thought she was a full Spaniard before though…
@theropod
(I think she’s claiming these ethnicities so she can be seen as ‘exotic’.)
Seriously doubt that,she comes from a country known to have African mixed up in the pot.Also why lie about the Japanese,there is no point.If you learn anything from this site,learn that your outside appearance,doesn’t always tell the full story.
Brazil is very multi ethnic. She looks exotic by the mixes for sure, although her European is very apparent yes.
Adriana Lima was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on June 12, 1981. Salvador is a center of Afro-Brazilian culture in Brazil, including the African-originated religion of candomblé:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador,_Bahia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candomblé
Candomblé’s counterpart in Cuba is santería, also known as la religión, regla de ocha, la regla lucumí or lukumi, one of several neo-African religions which exist in Cuba (e.g., abakua/abakuá, palo monte/palo mayombe, arará). Candomblé and santería heavily derived from the traditional religion of the Yorùbá people in Nigeria and Dahomey, with its many orishas (sprits or deities).
In Brazil, mixing between different peoples – Amerindians, Europeans, Africans, and since the early 1900s, Japanese – have been going on for centuries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-race_Brazilian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilian#Integration_and_intermarriage
Most Brazilian people today are a product of the mixing of these peoples:
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
On-line version ISSN 1414-431X
Braz J Med Biol Res vol.42 no.10 Ribeirão Preto Oct. 2009 Epub Sep 11, 2009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-879X2009005000026
Braz J Med Biol Res, October 2009, Volume 42(10) 870-876
DNA tests probe the genomic ancestry of Brazilians
“Studies with autosomal biparental markers reveal very elevated levels of genetic admixture between the three ancestral roots. However, it is also evident that there was an important population effect of the program of “whitening” of Brazil promoted through the immigration of circa six million Europeans in the roughly 100-year period after 1872. This manifests itself both in a predominant (>70%) European genomic ancestry in Brazilian Whites regardless of geographical region and in a high average European genomic ancestry (37.1%) in Brazilian Blacks.
The correlation between color and genomic ancestry is imperfect: at the individual level one cannot safely predict the skin color of a person from his/her level of European, African and Amerindian ancestry nor the opposite. Regardless of their skin color, the overwhelming majority of Brazilians have a high degree of European ancestry. Also, regardless of their skin color, the overwhelming majority of Brazilians have a significant degree of African ancestry. Finally, most Brazilians have a significant and very uniform degree of Amerindian ancestry!
The high ancestral variability observed in Whites and Blacks suggests that each Brazilian has a singular and quite individual proportion of European, African and Amerindian ancestry in his/her mosaic genomes. Thus, the only possible basis to deal with genetic variation in Brazilians is not by considering them as members of color groups, but on a person-by-person basis, as 190 million human beings,with singular genome and life histories.”
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-879X2009005000026&script=sci_arttext#Abstract
Unless one can prove that she is lying about her mixed heritage, then Adriana Lima is what she says what she says.
Most Brazilians are mixed, with white European ancestry predominating in the Brazilian population as a whole. African ancestry is very high – maybe the highest in Brazil – in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where Adriana Lima hails from.
her mom has euro (mainly) and amerindian ancestry, her dad heritage is more complicated, but he shows European traits too. In the end I think Adriana is first of Portuguese descent with some other degrees of amerindian and black ancestry
@andrew
Okay I’m not saying your theory is wrong ,because honestly I don’t know myself.I would just like to know what you’re basing your theory on?Did you see a video or something,about them stating this?Is your theory solely based on these pictures you provided?
my “theory” is solely based on these pictures I provided, yes
@andrew
Ok that’s what I thought.Well like I said,I don’t know myself,so I’m not going to debate about it.
Adriana Lima
mom: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1x2T5slR7jI/UD3-sLeT4OI/AAAAAAAAJnE/hWhZ9J3Q3y0/s1600/adriana.jpg
http://i33.tinypic.com/282nvbm.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9643/imagemaj2.jpg
dad: http://i31.tinypic.com/faby3l.jpg
I’m a mix too. My mom is russian and my dad born in Portugal but her mom is african and her dad is chinese. And I really like my blue chinese eyes rsrs
“blue chinese eyes”
probably that guy has blue almond eyes, result of his mixed heritage
Narkissa18
Congrats! yet another Russian on dis website)) Do u really speak Russian?