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'Ana Beatriz Barros' (born May 29, 1982) is a Brazilian supermodel. She is one of the most successful Brazilian supermodels. She has done advertisements for Guess?, for Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLo fashion line.^[1]

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Early life and career

Modeling career

Personal life

References

External links

Early life and career

She was born in a small town of Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Later, her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she spent her childhood.^[2] She is of Portuguese and Spanish descent, and is the youngest of three sisters; Patricia and Malu (Maria Luisa).^[3]

Modeling career

Barros and her older sister, Patricia (also a model), were walking on a Rio beach when they were spotted by a representative from Elite Model Management.^[4] Barros went to see Elite office in Rio and Sergio Mattos - art director of 40 Graus. They then encouraged Barros to participate in the Elite Model Look 1996, which she won. She subsequently competed for international Elite Model Look and placed second worldwide. Elite sent her portfolio, along with some recent Polaroid shots, to GUESS? which led her to do the Millennium GUESS? campaign along with her friend and fellow Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio.^[5] She has done advertisements not only for Guess? but also for Christian Dior, Armani jeans, Oakley, L'Oreal, Naf Naf, Diesel, Ermanno Scervino, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLO fashion line, among others. In 2004 Jennifer Lopez selected Barros to be the face of her new lingerie line, JLO Lingerie. Said Lopez, "I wanted someone young, sexy and urban, with a universal appeal." Barros has been in shows for the likes of Valentino, Missoni, Gucci, Christian Dior, Versace, Emporio Armani, BCBG, DKNY, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors and many more prestigious fashion houses.
She has been on numerous covers of magazines such as ''Glamour'', ''Vogue'', ''Marie Claire'', ''Allure''; Brazilian magazines such as ''Capricho'' and ''Audi magazine'', ''W'', ''ELLE'' to name a few. Barros appeared six times on ''Sports Illustrated'' in the Swimsuit Issue (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).

Personal life

She currently lives in New York but is always traveling. She also has an apartment in Brazil and very often visits her family. After a hard day of work, she loves to go bicycle riding or going to the beach. She also likes to read about art, especially about painting.

References

1. " Interviews: Supermodel Ana Beatriz Barros & Olivier Daube - founder of Lumiere Models Management. Sao Paulo, Brazil." Retrieved on 2006-07-29.
2. Yahoo! Model of the Monthaccessed 2007-06-18.
3. "Ana Beatriz Barros". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-21.
4. "Ana Beatriz Barros Bio" Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
5. "Yahoo! Model of the month by Guess?". Yahoo!. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.

External links

★ Official website

★ August 2006 interview