Candice Swanepoel, Model

You tin find anything in a flea market place, we've heard. Just don't have our discussion for it – ask Candice Swanepoel. Since being spotted by a model sentinel in a Durban market, this beautiful Southward African has gone from a xv-year-quondam taunted by schoolmates to high-earning supermodel. By the fourth dimension she turned xvi, she was earning R40,000 for a day's piece of work.

Built-in at Mooi River, Natal Province, Candice speaks English and Afrikaans. She was notwithstanding at the all-daughter boarding school of St Anne'due south College when she was discovered at the historic period of fifteen. Now twenty 5, her many shoots have included covers for Faddy (Greece), Elle (Germany), Ocean Drive (United states of america), and the Uk's GQ. She has been involved in advertizement campaigns with Diesel, Nike, Guess? and Versus eyewear.

Nicknamed Flamingo on account of her long legs, Candice has worked for Dolce and Gabbana, Tommy Hilfiger, Sass and Bide, Diane von Fürstenberg, and Betsey Johnson, to name but a few. She walked the runway for Victoria'due south Secret in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and was the first Victoria'south Clandestine Angel from South Africa. She featured in the 2010 Swim catalogue, together with Erin Heatherton, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Lindsay Ellingson, and modelled for Kardashian'southward 2010 swimwear line.

With her lite brown hair and bluish eyes, we're non surprised that she was tenth in Askmen's Superlative 99 Most Desirable Women for 2012. And yet at schoolhouse, she was teased because she was and then thin. She noticed immature women of a like build on television, and said to her mother: "The girls at school are teasing me, only I await like those girls on TV". She needn't have worried – in 2012, she appeared on Forbes' World'due south Tiptop Earning Supermodels listing, with an income of $3.1million. Merely she insists: "I don't go crazy, or buy silly things".

Nosotros realise that remainder is very important on the catwalk, and Candice is aware of this, too. She works out three times a week, enjoying kicking battle, jumping ropes, and building muscles. If she's tired, she practises yoga, which keeps her supple, and in a calm frame of mind.

Her survival tip is to: "Grow a thick skin. It's a really great business if you don't let certain things go to you lot". And her wish is to bring together some other kind of listing, of inspirational people who have made a departure to the world. We think she's in a proficient position to accomplish that!

Candice Swanepoel By Steven Meisel