She's sweet and beautiful. We think her nickname of Candy is quite fitting for this blue-eyed, blonde bombshell. Don't you?
Candice Swanepoel is from South Africa, having grown up on a dairy farm with her parents and brother. She was discovered at the age of 15 while at a flea market. How does that happen? Seriously, we've always wonder how someone is "discovered" in Africa, of all places. The model who discovered her, Kevin Elise, reflects upon that fateful moment: "It was like a beautiful flamingo walking past my shop. The way she walked past just did it for me." We can only imagine.
A year later, at 16, she was earning up to $7,500 for a day's work. Not bad a for a farm girl raised in South Africa, eh?
She has since traveled the world and in fact, traveling, has become a passion of hers. It's a rarity for her to stay in any one place longer than week before she up in the air again.
Candice has walked the runways of countless designers, including Tommy Hilfiger, D&G, Shiatzy Chen, Sass and Bide, Diane von Fürstenberg, and Betsey Johnson. She has already graced the covers of Vogue, ELLE, and Ocean Drive. She's always been featured on FHM.com.
However, she is perhaps best known for being a Victoria's Secret Angel, a title she deservingly earned in 2010. She has walked the always anticipated annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show since 2007. Candice is the first South African ever chosen as a contract angel by Victoria’s Secret.
Here are some fast factoids:
- She speaks fluent English and Portuguese.
- She doesn't appear to know all the lyrics to We Wish You a Merry Christmas. That's okay. Not a deal breaker for us.
- She has four piercing up one ear.
- Plus, she has a nipple piercing.
- She listens to the Scorpions, UB40, and Pink Floyd.
Candice currently lives in Manhattan. Her favortie places in the city include Central Park, ABC Carpet and Home, and Silk Day Spa.
To keep her bodacious bod, Candice says she's addicted to exercise. She exercises on a daily basis and cuts out most salt and carbohydrates from her diet.
In 2011, Candice made Forbes' list of The World's Top-Earning Models, coming in at 10 with estimated earnings of $2.5 to $3 million.
So, she's successful, beautiful, young, and loaded. The question all the guys are waiting for. What does she look for in a man? Here's what Candice has to say about that: "A smile, independence, a sense of humor, a loving nature and being well-travelled are very important to me. An open mind, ambition, intelligence... Someone relaxed and laid-back, who can tell me to take a seat and chill out (I get really wound up with work and try to do too much at once). Someone who'll remind me to keep my feet on the ground."
Candice is represented by the following modeling agencies: Ice Model Management, IMG Models, Why Not Model Agency, and Modelwerk.
Well, there you have it. Ms. Candice Swanepoel.
