1. Before she signed for the Victoria’s Secret, she was considering quitting modeling career and go back to South Africa.
2. She moved to New York, after 2 years of modeling in Paris, Milan, London and South Africa, where she was discovered by Victoria’s Secret.
3. She ranked #1 in the Maxim’s list of “Hot 100” in the year 2014.
4. Her first ramp walk was Ready to Wear – Spring / Summer 2006 fashion show for Tommy Hilfiger, and Dolce & Gabbana.
5. She believes the career of modeling is “an incredible blessing for someone with such a sheltered upbringing.
6. At the age of 15, she caught the eyes of Kevin Ellise, model scout in a Durban flea market. It was reportedly a long time before the agency was convinced in signing her.
7. She did her schooling in an all-girls boarding St. Anne’s College. She once said that what she had in childhood was so perfect that she couldn’t find the right words to describe it.
8. Within a period of a year, she had more major designers signing her on more and more modeling contracts, from all over the Europe.
9. Candice Susan Swanepoel was born on 20 October 1988 in a village of Mooi River, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
10. Her first magazine cover was the Italian edition for Vogue, when she was just 16. Later, she graced the covers of other Vogue editions including Australian, Brazilian, Mexican, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.