Candice Swanepoel
Swanepoel in 2011, photo by s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Candice Susan Swanepoel
Place of Birth: Mooi River, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Date of Birth: 20 October, 1988
Ethnicity: Afrikaner, including Belgian [Flemish, Walloon], Dutch, French, and German, with very distant African [Angolan, Ethiopian], English, Malayali Indian, Sumbawa Indonesian, and Norwegian
Candice Swanepoel is a South African model and philanthropist. She is known for her work with Victoria’s Secret. She is 5′10″.
Candice’s resume includes covers for Vogue (Greece), ELLE (Germany), and Ocean Drive (U.S.), and advertisements for Nike, Diesel, Guess?, and Versus Eyewear. She has walked the runway for Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce & Gabbana, Sass and Bide, Betsey Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg, and numerous other designers, as well as for Victoria’s Secret.
Candice is the daughter of Eileen (Green) and Willem Swanepoel. A picture of Candice with her parents can be seen here. She speaks fluent Afrikaans, English, and Portuguese. Candice has two children with her former fiancé, Brazilian model Hermann Nicoli.
Candice’s ancestry includes Afrikaner [Belgian Flemish and Walloon, Dutch, French, German], with distant African [Angolan, Ethiopian], English, Indian, Indonesian, and Norwegian descent on her father’s side, and English on her mother’s side. Some of Candice’s ancestors were African, Indian, and Indonesian slaves.
Candice’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her ninth great-grandfather, Jan Andries Swanepoel.
Candice’s paternal grandfather is Jan Andreas Swanepoel (the son of Johannes Willem Swanepoel and Petronella Johanna Susana Fouché). Jan was born in Delareyville, Ngaka Modiri Molema, North West. Johannes was the son of Jan Andreas Swanepoel and Cornelia Susanna Johanna Meyer. Petronella was the daughter of Louis Joachim Fouché and Aletta Johanna Susana Esterhuizen.
Candice’s paternal grandmother is named Susanna Magdalena Cornelius. Susanna was born in Lichtenburg, Ngaka Modiri Molema, North West.
Candice s a seventh cousin, once removed, of runner Oscar Pistorius.
Sources: Genealogy of Candice Swanepoel (focusing on her father’s side) – http://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Candice’s patrilineal line – https://www.wikitree.com
Oh . . . okay sorry I didn’t know. It’s just that her roots always look darker but I guess she could just be a darker blond.
replying to meg’s comment.
Very few natural blonde’s hair remains blonde into adulthood it almost always turns into a mousey brownish color. It doesn’t make them any less a “natural” blonde” though. Her hair might not be as blonde as it was when she was young but she still is a natural blonde.
Most South Africans of Dutch/Afrikaner descent are at least 10% black genetically. Remember they’ve been in Africa for 400 years!
I like her eyes.
I am certain she is part Goddess as well XD
I am sure she is part black as well.
Look at those lips.
She is also too pretty to be fully white.
wow, that was racist. Obviously, if you think she’s pretty than white girls can be pretty because she is white.
What you say is quite ironic since all the black girls who consider themselves attractive are mulatto (Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry, Alicia keys, Mariah Carey, Zendaya) and White people can also have full lips.
The White South African. smh