Gisele Bundchen ($45 Million)
This ex victoria secret’s angel tops our list of most expensive models of the world.The curvy 5′11″ Brazilian is highest-paid model in fashion industry. She started her modeling career back in 1997 from Alexander McQueen’s memorable spring 1998 “rain” ready-to-wear show.Bündchen is credited for pioneering the “horse walk”, a stomping movement created when a model picks her knees up high and kicks her feet out in front.
During her whooping modeling career she won many titles like “model of the millennium,”, “The return of the sexy model”, “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” and “And God Created Gisele…,”.Forbes ranked her, for the fifth consecutive time, as the world’s top-earning model with an estimated $45 million over the past 12 months (2010–2011).She is also ranked as 60th Most powerful woman of the world.
Heidi Klum ($20 Million)
Born in 1973 Heidi Klum is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, and a fashion designer.In 1992 she participated in a modeling contest called Model 92 and out of 25,000 she was voted winner as a result of which Metropolitan Models hired her for US $300,000. Till 2010 she worked as an angel of victoria secret.It was reported in May 2011 that Klum trails far behind Gisele Bündchen at No. 2 with estimated earnings of $20 million on Forbes’ list of the World’s Top-Earning Models (2010-2011).
Klum also designed clothing lines, shoes,jewellery and swim suites for men and women. She was one of the designers of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie line “The Body”.
Kate Moss($14 Million)
This English beauty started her career in 1990 at the age of 16 from a black-and-white shoot for British magazine The Face , titled as “The 3rd Summer of Love”.Moss was voted 9th in Maxim’s “50 Sexiest Women of 1999″ and 22nd in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women of 1995″. Arena named her as their Sexiest Woman.She also won the Sexiest Woman NME Award.
Moss is also known for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use.In 2005, the Daily Mirror ran front page and inside photos that seemed to show Moss snorting several lines of a white powder that was presumed to be cocaine.
Adriana Lima ($8 Million)
This Brazilian beauty if well know as a victoria secret’s angel since 2000.At the age of 15, she entered and finished in first place in Ford’s “Supermodel of Brazil” model search. Lime was ranked No.99th in the 2006 Forbes’ edition of The Celebrity 100 ,People magazine’s 100 most beautiful people in the world list, 7th on FHMs “100 Sexiest Women 2007″ list and was awarded as the “Hottest Girl on the Planet” at the first Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards, Lima was also voted on Maxim’s “Hot 100″ 2007 at the No.53 spot.
Alessandra Ambrosio ($5 Million)
Another Brazilian in our list. She is best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret. Ambrosio is currently one of the Victoria’s Secret Angels and has modeled for brands such as Next, Armani Exchange, Christian Dior, and Ralph Lauren.Ambrosio enrolled at a modelling class at the age of 12 and at the age of 14 she was one of 20 finalists for an elite modelling competition in Brazil. She was ranked No. 5 on Forbes’ The World’s Top-Earning Models list, with an estimated earnings of $5 million over the past 12 months (2010–2011).
