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
I’ve read she was partially Jewish. I guess it was a lie.
Candice Swanepoel has just dutch blood but was born in south africa she also said this in an interview:
We go straight to the beach, and spend the whole day there. Meet friends, have a beer, get a tan. I have Dutch blood, and Dutch South Africans can get really dark. But I always have sunscreen on my face. ( she never talked about french ore german )
http://www.mrblasberg.com/2012/12/18/a-candid-conversation-with-the-impossibly-beautiful-candice/
the first time I saw her I thought she was dutch she looked dutch and she had a dutch sounding surname ( I am dutch ) she looks a bit look doutzen kroes ( dutch model ) I think http://milabyc.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/candice-swanepoel-and-doutzen-kroes-at-opening-of-victorias-secret-store-01.jpg
and like another south african model http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Sasha+Pieterse+Victoria+Secret+Sexy+Photoshoot+IvuG2MYudDjl.jpg
who is according to this site also just dutch and not german ore french
and a lot like Ymre Stiekema ( also dutch model )
http://jackieonline.nl/wp-content/uploads//2012/08/ymre.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__UQSIjH59iA/TCAGGJjjxUI/AAAAAAAAEZ8/LEXVc5gQ8PQ/s320/Candice_Swanepoel_Beautiful_Face_320x320_Pixels.jpg
when I saw charlize theron I thought she was maybe a mix of dutch and german and I was a almost right about that according to this site but she also has french blood. in candice however I don’t really see it. the pictures of her with no till little make up not the photoshop and 10 layers of make up of victoria secret the eye shape, face shape nose, she looks like the average dutch girl/women I see walking down the street
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CTMYfz6aWss/UJ_mXJDGvbI/AAAAAAAALGY/BcSQEf9puDc/s640/Candice+Without+Makeup.jpg
http://insearchofsadie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/03_rag_bone_candice_swanepoel_27.jpg
http://www.bilderse.com/images/candice-swanepoel-no-makeup-1/Candice-Swanepoel-no-makeup3021.jpg
It already says she is Dutch?
I know but people keep saying she is part german and french and I said in Charlize Theron I see it and it is also stated in her ethnicity on this site ( that is she is part german, french ) in Candice I don’t see it.
I was showing with pictures what I was trying to say
It doesn’t matter what you see or don’t see in her. You can’t dispute facts and history of what makes up an Afrikaner ethnically. Every single Afrikaner is a descendant of the 3 main European groups that migrated to South Africa in the 1600s (Dutch, German and French). Candice is not Dutch, culturally she’s an Afrikaner and ethnically she’s got Dutch, French and German in her and some other minor ethnicities that have already been mentioned.
what is with Jody Foster and James Cameron.
Just Dutch?
No Swedish, Norwegian, Finn, Dannish? She has an exotic Northern European look to her.
the average Afrikaner is 1/3 Dutch 1/3 German 1/3 French Huguenot and it’s very nordic looking
They can have some distant indigenous South African or South Asian (from India) heritage too.
Because (most) Dutch people aren’t blonde & blue eyed?
They look pretty similar to Scandinavians.
she looks at least octoroon