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
Im brazillian.
A genetic study of the population of Salvador confirmed that the largest genetic contribution to the city’s African (49.2%), followed by Europe (36.3%) and Indian (14.5%). The study also concluded that individuals who own surname with religious overtones tend to have higher degree of African ancestry (54.9%) and belong to the lower social classes.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_(Bahia)
White people famous in Salvador:
Ivete Sangalo (99.2% European, 0.4% Indigenous and 0.4% African), Marcos Palmeira (93% European, 5.5% Indigenous and African remainder), Luiza Brunet (80% of European ancestry, 15 5% of the African and Amerindian ancestry rest) and Zeca Camargo (96.5% European, 2.6% and only 0.9% indigenous African).
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Ciencia/0,,MUL43530-5603,00.html
Fixing:
Ivete Sangalo (99.2% European, 0.4% Indigenous and 0.4% African), Marcos Palmeira (93% European, 5.5% Indigenous and African remainder), Luiza Brunet (80% of European ancestry, 15 , 5% Amerindian) and Zeca Camargo (96.5% European, 2.6% indigenous and 0.9% African).
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Ciencia/0,,MUL43530-5603,00.html
Marcos Palmeira and Luiza Brunet are white? LOL your link not work,liar
young Adriana Lima
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she looks what she is,mixed
She looks fully white and I often get her confused with Iryna Shayk.
to ShawntheGod
(She looks fully white and I often get her confused
with Iryna Shayk)
iryna shayk is not fully white either. she is half Tatar
they belongs to turanik race/ethnicity. they are central Asian
they look like Asian and are mostly Muslim.
lookinto it.
none of them are white
She is white passing, honestly her native, Japanese, and african ancestry is probably very distant