Girl from Bra-zil, adriana lima

‘Adriana, big smile!” “You look beautiful, Adriana!” “Over here, Adriana, a kiss, a kiss!”
The paparazzi are losing their minds — for 29-year-old supermodel Adriana Lima.
Faced with the most sizzling Victoria’s Secret Angel since Heidi Klum, who can really blame these mere mortals? She is, after all, standing on a street in SoHo in the middle of the day, wearing a jaw-dropping, low-plunging $2 million Fantasy Bra.
And perhaps even more surprising? She comes to it naturally. “I was born bombshell,” confides the Brazilian-born model in an exclusive interview with The Post, before embarking on a whirlwind day of more than 40 appointments and hundreds of swarming, swooning, camera-phone-clicking fans.


“It doesn’t matter what time of day, in the morning, if I’m playing with my daughter. All day, bombshell.”
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She’s frisky, this one. Dabbing herself with the brand’s new line of Bombshell perfume, which she calls one of her favorite things, she gives teasing answers to questions. When asked about her 11-month-old little girl Valentina with former NBA star Marko Jaric, she says — completely deadpan — that her daughter is already fluent in Serbian, gives her fashion advice and dons her own “mini heels and mini wings.” She clarifies with a playful smile, “I’m joking.”
Then, as she emerges from another touch-up in her dressing room for an appearance on “Good Day, New York,” she smacks this reporter right on the bottom.
A vision in a bra covered with 3,000 brilliant cut white diamonds, light blue sapphires and topazes designed by Damiani, she is chauffeured in a classic Rolls-Royce, flanked by three male models and three security guards. She is the most clicked-on Victoria’s Secret Angel on Facebook — and last month she caused such a frenzy at a store in Canada, everyone thought it must be Justin Bieber.
“I’m feeling very expensive,” she laughs in her Brazilian accent, after a Victoria’s Secret camera crew ask her to redo a take for the Nov. 30 runway event. (She struggles to pronounce the special musical guests “Kah-tee Perry” and “Ah-kon.”)
Impeccable in her English, she isn’t, but expensive she most definitely is. Ranked the fourth-highest-earning model, she rakes in $7.5 million a year, according to Forbes.
As she headed back into the store after stopping to pose, one male onlooker, who received a text from a friend that his “celebrity crush” was in the neighborhood, gazes dreamily. As she blows kisses to the crowd, 29-year-old Aaron Harvey struggles to describe just what enchants him about her sultry bedroom eyes, pillow lips and playful smirk. “I think,” he says, struggling to describe the Angel, “it’s the demonic look.”
Lima just curls her white-gloved finger coyly.
“I always had this dream,” she says as her security detail whisks her to safety, “of being like Marilyn for a day.”
Who said blondes have more fun?