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Biography |
Izabel Goulart was born on October 23, 1984, in São Carlos,
Brazil. Blessed with a flawless physique and a fetching
smile, it didn’t take long before she was discovered. “I was
with my mother buying groceries in the center of my city
when a hairdresser suggested that I should become a model,”
she recalls. “So I moved to São Paulo and started modeling.”
Although she’s one of Brazil’s top exports, Izabel’s
professional career got off to an inauspicious start when
she experienced a wardrobe malfunction during her first
runway show.
“For some reason everyone was wearing clothes and they put a
bikini on me,” she says. “They tied up the bikini and put
the top part behind my back and I was like ‘Guys that’s not
going to work out. I’m not feeling comfortable with that.
It’s going to fall.’ They’re like, ‘No you’re fine with
this. Go girl, go!’ And then I started walking down. I was
really nervous, it was my first time and I felt my bikini
top falling down. I felt as I was walking something was
coming down slowly and I was like, ‘Oh my God, oh my God,
help me,' and when I completely got in front of the
photographers it fell. I was just frozen and I saw everyone
around me standing up clapping and laughing.”
The unfortunate incident made many Brazilian newspapers and
remains Izabel’s most embarrassing moment. Luckily, she was
able to put her rocky start behind her and returned to the
runway to model collections for A-list designers such as
Bill Blass, Jill Sander, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren and
Stella McCartney, among many others.
By 2005, Izabel’s success on the catwalk prompted a move to
the Big Apple, where she was instantly signed to a multiyear
contract by Victoria’s Secret and put on the catwalk with
Gisèle Bündchen, Marisa Miller, Adriana Lima, Petra Nemcova,
and Alessandra Ambrosio.
The Brazilian bombshell made her debut for the company later
that year by modeling a bikini made out of candy at the 2005
Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. “It was so delicious,” she
says. “I was like talking to myself. I was like, ‘OK Izabel,
if you be a good girl, don’t let anything fall out, and if
you don’t fall you deserve to eat your outfit later on. And
that’s what I did. It was so sweet. It was so delicious.”
Izabel has since appeared in prominent ads for Cori, Diesel,
Forum, G Series, Osklen, Pollini, Triton, Valfrance, Yohji
Yamamoto, Zoomp, and more. She also made her acting debut in
2007 with a supporting role in the hit HBO series Entourage. |
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