Becoming a sought after Model

The Civil Engineer who turned into Supermodel Michelle Alves…

In Londrina, Brazil, a great artist was born in September 1978 who would later become supermodel Michelle Alves.  She was raised in a family of academic professionals with her father being an engineer, and her mother a proficient lawyer.  With such outstanding background, Michelle was oriented strictly that education should come first before anything else.

Therefore, her desire to join the WWI regalia should be set aside for the moment until she finishes her schooling at Londrina State University.  Michelle took civil engineering which is practically not an easy course, but she excelled in it and became one of the top students in her class.  This tall lady with green eyes amazingly achieved top grades in her studies consistently.

However, in spite of a promising future in her course of engineering, supermodel Michelle Alves believed that academics were not meant for her.  She said that although she’s one of the top students in her class, she felt she didn’t belong there.  She wanted to make tours and earn her own money at an early stage of her life.  True enough, because she didn’t have to wait for too long before she could land in the right direction that she wanted.

Michelle was informed by a model scout that she has a lot of potentials to enter the fashion world, as she is blessed with the appropriate physical aesthetics required for modeling.  She grabbed the opportunity without second thoughts due to her desire to become a model, and partly because of her dream to stay in Sao Paulo.  Endowed with fluency in English, French, Italian and Portuguese, supermodel Michelle Alves was a perfect asset to compete in international modeling competitions.

Her rise in the modeling stardom was quick, and she immediately captured the attention of the public in the South American scene.  She made her way to follow the footsteps of other Brazilian supermodels like Gisele Bundchen, Ana Beatriz Barros and Adriana Lima, because of her obvious resemblance with Bundchen.  In early 2002, the big name, supermodel Michelle Alves bombarded the world of fashion in America.

Just within a year’s time she was already featured several times in Vogue, Glamour and Elle magazine.  She also filled one of the most coveted slots in 16 of the remaining spots for Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show held in 2002.  That show was supposed to be one of the most popular TV fashion events in the whole world.

After a few weeks taping, Michelle was contracted to be a Victoria’s Secret model officially, joining the list of world-famous names in the modeling industry, and making her status as a top-rated supermodel in America.  After 12 months, Michelle’s rise in stardom became unstoppable from being average in popularity on pages of magazines to become one of the highly-recognized faces

In 2003, she was featured in the Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated which was repeated in 2005.  Supermodel Michelle Alves has become the most sought-after spokesmodel designation for Christian Dior and Valentino, and has walked the runways for Stella McCartney, John Galliano and Versace.