Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is the highest-earning model in the world, according to a list compiled by Forbes.com.
The model has topped the list for the third year running after making $25 million from June 2008 to June 2009, reports contactmusic.com.
Despite raking in a fortune, Bundchen, who married American football star Tom Brady in February, has been hit by the global economic crisis, making $10 million less than in the previous financial year.
But the 28-year-old catwalk queen still has lucrative campaigns with Versace, Dior, True Religion jeans and Ebel watches. She also has her own successful shoe line.
German supermodel Heidi Klum finished in second place with $16 million, earning $2 million more than the previous financial year while British beauty Kate Moss finished at third place with $8.5 million, earning a million dollars more than the previous year.
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has posed in just tiny pants in a photo shoot for Elle magazine to support Aids charity appeal (Red).
In another snap, the 28-year-old Brazilian paints a very pretty picture as she poses in an art-inspired shoot.
Bundchen is keen to emphasise that she is not involved in this campaign just for her image but as it is one close to her heart after growing up in poor conditions.
“I grew up in a country strongly affected by poverty. On street corners you see kids doing things on the wrong side of the law, the Sun quoted Bundchen, as saying.
The face of suffering isn”t an abstract thing for me, and I”ve always said to myself that if I could do something to help, I would.
“Follow your instincts and your heart: if you are able to buy and help others at the same time, why deny yourself the pleasure?” she added.
Money is generated through the charity’’s partners, who design and sell specific products and contribute a share of the profits to invest in African Aids programmes.
After much speculation, it has finally been confirmed that supermodel Gisele Bundchen and American footballer Tom Brady are engaged. The Brazilian beauty said yes to Tom, when he proposed to her with a dazzling solitaire on the 9th of January, according to source.
The couple is said to have informed family and pals, it has emerged. "He asked and she accepted. The couple is discussing a huge fashionista event in the spring or a more intimate and quicker ceremony in Costa Rica, where Gisele has a home," People quoted a source, as saying.
An official announcement, as well as preliminary wedding details, are being planned by Bundchen and her close pals. "The couple is discussing a huge fashionista event in the spring or a more intimate and quicker ceremony in Costa Rica, where Gisele has a home," the source said.
It takes a lot of things to be sexy: An angelic face, well-toned body, smoking hot appearance. Karolina Kurkova has it all and that's what earns her the title "The Sexiest Woman in the World!" She was named by E! entertainment television as being The Sexiest and tops the list beating some of the sexiest women in show business like her fellow Angels Giselle Bundchen, Adriana Lima and Heidi Klum!
I wonder why Megan Fox or Marisa Miller are not on the top 10 list, as they were too given a similar titles.
The Victoria's Secret model was recently ranked by Forbes a one of the world's highest paid models as well. Gorgeous and rich?! Some girls get all the luck!
Anyway, here are the remaining hotties from the complete top 10 list:
1. Karolina Kurkova
2. Bar Rafael
3. Angelina Jolie
4. Gisele Bundchen
5. Scarlett Johansson
6. Adriana Lima
7. Heidi Klum
8. Penelope Cruz
9. Manuela Arcuri
10. Shakira
With an estimated $35 million in earnings, Gisele Bundchen is still the world's top-earning model, according to Forbes dot com's annual list.
In the last 12 months, Bundchen made more than double the $14 million earned by Heidi Klum, who came in second, according to Forbes.
Rounding out the top five are Kate Moss ($7.5 million), Adriana Lima ($7 million) and Doutzen Kroes ($6 million). The latter, a 23-year-old from Holland, was second-to-last on the list last year.
"I wish we had snapped her up a long time ago," Edward Razek, who has been selecting models for Victoria's Secret for a decade, told Forbes. The company gave Kroes a contract this year.
Victoria's Secret made millionaires of two newcomers: Miranda Kerr and Selita Ebanks, ranked at Nos. 10 and 12, respectively.
Brazilian glamazon Gisele Bundchen gets toey and shows off sandals from her very own line at her the “Gisele Bundchen Ipanema Collection” footwear collection launch.
The event took place at Alumbra, Docklands on Wednesday in Melbourne, Australia. Her range of thongs and sandals will distributed in Australia by Melbourne firm Novo Shoe.
“I feel like the president here,” Gisele said as Aussie fashionistas cheered for her.
A percentage of Ipanema Collection sales will be donated to the Pure Xingu Water campaign, aimed at preserving the headwaters of the Xingu River system in Brazil’s Amazon region.
Gisele Bundchen is the world's richest supermodel raking in $33 million a year.
The Brazilian beauty topped Forbes magazine's list of the 10 richest supermodels, earning almost four times more than Kate Moss, who is in second place with an annual income of $9 million.
Gisele - who turns 27 on Friday (20.07.07) - stars in almost 20 campaigns a year and was the lead model for lingerie giants Victoria's Secret.
The model was paid $5 million a year to front their catwalk shows and appear in their catalogues and advertising campaigns. However, their association ended in May of this year, after the company reportedly refused to increase her annual salary.
Gisele also lends her name to a Brazilian shoe company.
Second-placed Kate, 33, was initially dropped from several advertising campaigns after she was photographed in 2005 apparently snorting cocaine. However, her career soon recovered from the scandal and her earnings have now rocketed following deals with Virgin Mobile, Louis Vuitton and Calvin Klein.
She was also paid $6.1 million to design her own range of clothes for British high street chain Topshop.
Victoria's Secret models Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio come third, fourth and fifth in the list with annual earnings ranging between $6 million and $8 million.
The Forbes Magazine's Top 10 richest Supermodels
1. Gisele Bundchen, 26: $33 million
2. Kate Moss, 33: $9 million
3. Heidi Klum, 34: $8 million
4. Adriana Lima, 26: $6 million
5. Alessandra Ambrosio, 26: $6 million
6. Carolyn Murphy, 31: $5 million
7. Natalia Vodianova, 25: $4.5 million
8. Karolina Kurkova, 23: $3.5 million
9. Daria Werbowy, 22: $3.5 million
10. Gemma Ward, 19: $3 million