View Full Version : World's 15's Top-Earning Models


ChInKyMeLiSsE08
20th Jun '08 Fri, 23:40
Fame, Beauty and Wealth
what more could they ask for.. darn..
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1. Gisele Bundchen
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$35 Million
The highest-paid model said goodbye to Victoria's Secret in 2007, but still juggles 20 contracts. The 27-year-old continues to bag new contracts, noticeably with Pantene and a cosmetics giant yet to be named.

2. Heidi Klum
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$14 Million
The second highest-paid model in the world is more of a media and retail mogul, with hit shows in two countries and lines of jewelry, jeans and skincare. The 34-year-old model and mother of three (hubby is singer Seal) has renewed her Victoria's Secret contract.

3. Kate Moss
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$7.5 Million
The überwaif lost some important contracts last year, but her fashion line is an international hit. The 34-year-old ended campaigns with Burberry, Stella McCartney, Dior and Versace.

4. Adriana Lima
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$7 Million
The Brazilian beauty remains hugely popular on the Web and in her Victoria's Secret commercials. The blue-eyed beauty, 27, lost her Italian phone company Telecom Italia contract, but holds on to bread-and-butter clients Victoria's Secret and Maybelline, for which she just renegotiated a multiyear deal.

5. Doutzen Kroes
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$6 Million
This honey from Holland, 23, makes the longest leap up the list this year thanks to her contracts with Calvin Klein, L'Oréal and Victoria's Secret.

6. Karolina Kurkova
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$5 Million
The Victoria's Secret babe remains one of the lingerie giant's most important--and highest paid--models. If it seems like this Czech beauty has been around the industry much longer than would it would seem for someone only 23 years old--that is because she hit success young.

7. Natalia Vodianova
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$4.8 Million
This ravishing Russian and mother of three, 26, has been a Calvin Klein muse for longer than any other model, including Kate Moss. Vodianova is the exclusive face of Calvin Klein's Euphoria fragrance.

8. Carolyn Murphy
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$4.5 Million
The face of Estée Lauder has no trouble bagging other clients. If you've been in a department store any time within the past few years, you've seen this ubiquitous 32-year-old.

9. Daria Werbowy
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$3.8 Million
This Canadian may not be a household name, but she's a household face. This striking brunette, 24, is the main visage for beauty behemoth Lancome, but that is far from all.

10. Miranda Kerr
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$3.5 Million
The bewitching babe from Down Under is Victoria's Secret's latest star. Kerr is getting a bit of a late start, breaking through in her delectable Victoria's Secret campaigns at the ripe age of 23.

11. Isabeli Fontana
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$3 Million
This gorgeous Revlon model makes her list debut. Fontana, 24, hasn't been around too much lately, as she took some time off to raise her two children.

11. Gemma Ward
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$3 Million
This doll-faced Australian was in the news this year when she was romantically linked to Heath Ledger shortly before his death in January.

12. Selita Ebanks
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$2.7 Million
This lingerie lovely is the latest Victoria's Secret millionaire. The 25-year-old was born in the Cayman Islands and lived in New York while contemplating a career in law.

13. Valentina Zelyaeva
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$2.3 Million
This classically beautiful Muscovite is the exclusive face of Ralph Lauren and two L'Oréal fragrances. Besides being the face of L'Oréal fragrances Turquoise and Romance, this 25-year-old is sitting pretty with one of the best contracts in the business.

14. Hilary Rhoda
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$2 Million
The new face of Estée Lauder is also hailed as the new face of fashion. The stunning 21-year-old former athlete from Chevy Chase, Md., is the heir to the famous faces of Estée Lauder.

15. Liya Kebede
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$1.5 Million
Estée Lauder's first black model was phased out of the company's ads last year, but she's hardly disappeared. This 30-year-old Ethiopian groundbreaker hangs on by her manicured fingernails to the list by virtue of contracts with H&M, The Gap, Anne Taylor and Givenchy.



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