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
Adriana’s maternal grandfather was named Bertoldo Fontes Lima.
https://www.correio24horas.com.br/noticia/nid/coluna-vip-livro-com-cartas-de-jorge-amado-para-gattai-sera-lancado-em-2012/
she considers herself afro brazilian
https://youtu.be/sXZdkNAx6sE
Looking at her parents, she is mostly European. Not that “exotic” and not a pardo, in Brazil she is white.
I’d say she is 70% European 10% African, 8% Native + other.
Her father name is Nelson Torres.
In Brasil are 10 or 15 millions people who are spanish decendents ,in Sao Paulo 1 of 4 people have spanish ancestry.
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/06/04/actualidad/1401910096_876304.html
Interesting article
According to the city of São Paulo’s official website, it currently has the largest Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese (I really thought it was Rio) communities outside their own countries, as well as the third-largest Italian and Lebanese communities outside of Italy and Lebanon.
“Torres” is a tipically Spanish (Castillan) surname, it’s not Portuguese.
Torres can be Portuguese.
https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3ATorres~%20%2Bbirth_place%3APortugal~
Yes, but much more common in Spain.
Adriana Lima is the most beautiful woman in the world. Devon Aoki and Kristin Kreuk tie for second. This proves that mixed-race women are the best.
Spanish surnames generally end with Z, Portuguese end with S.
Almost, but Sao Paulo has the largest Portuguese, Italian, Lebanese, and Japanese communities outside Portugal, Italy, Lebanon, and Japan. I don’t think your source is correct or it didn’t translate properly. People of Spanish descent exist all over Latin America so that doesn’t make since to me. But all those ethncities exist in Brazil overall.
She is the prettiest Brazilian model ever so much better than Giselle Bundchen and she should have walked to represent Brazil in the Olympics that’s how you can tell Brazil is racist and has a colorism problem when they choose Giselle who has a horse face over this stunning model likely due to the fact that Giselle is German.
I was shocked when I heard that Giselle was going to do the walk on the opening. It should’ve been Adriana
Yes, so true. Gisele is the most overated model ever if you don’t include instagram models like Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, and Bella Hadid. She does have a horse face which is ironic since she supposedly pioneered the horse walk.