INTERVIEW W/ ADRIANA LIMA =)
interview
It's about time for a new face to usurp the throne of supermodel queen - you know who I mean - and my money is on Adriana Lima. This means the reign will remain with Brazil, of course, but what country stands a chance against a gene pool that is simply swimming with beauteous strokes: the ballerina legs, the plump lips, the bold cheekbones, the mesmerizing azure eyes. These are the alluring attributes that keep popping up in Brazilian females with the frequency of Bush votes in a Republican recount.
Usually when I meet a cover model, pre-makeup, I am relieved to find a face that is human, i.e. flawed in some way - a blemish on a cheek, perhaps, or one eyebrow slightly askew - but flawed nonetheless. When I met Adriana, a spunky 19-year-old in blue jeans and a vintage tee, I looked into the magnetic eyes of a first-place finisher in the final heat of the international, gene-pool swim meet. Flawless!
With a French, Portuguese, Native-American, and Caribbean heritage, Adriana has a bedazzling, temptress-meets-angel face and the body to match. Her teeny-tiny calves extend several miles up to tiny thighs, which eventually meet up with a small but shapely Brazilian tush, which swivels with her hips below her fat-free waistline and real breasts, as she checks out the yellow bodysuit into which she has wriggled all those attributes and the deep dark tan which is now even more evident. Well, I don't need to tell you - you can see it in the photos - it's enough to make a 30-something pasty-white Anglo-Saxon girl run screaming for a jar of cellulite cream and some self-tanner.
But I gritted my teeth and stayed put - she had picked up the copy of Tear Sheet that I had plopped on the counter, and I wanted to hear what she had to say about it. "Oh, that's me" , she cried, pointing out her picture on the party page with the genuine excitement of someone who was seeing her picture in a magazine for the first time. She has not only seen her picture in a few magazines - like editorial in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, for example - she also may have caught a glimpse of herself on buses, cabs, and phone booths for French Connection; in magazine ads and on bus shelters for BCBG; in a TV commercial and on a catalog cover for Victoria's Secret; in campaigns for Guess? and Giorgio Armani; in interviews on E! Entertainment and Extra; and on the runways for Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Christian Lacroix, and Anna Sui.
Surely Miss Flawless must be an absolute nightmare - right?... No, her reaction to her picture in the party page is typical of her unpretentious, zestful personality. She has a certain innocence that matches her age and her angelic face
