Candice Swanepoel has been crowned the most influential model on Instagram.
According to a report done by lingerie brand Bluebella, she earns $70,000 for each post, The Sun reported.
Swanepoel sH๏τ to fame after being becoming a Victoria’s Secret Angel in 2010. Today, she has 11.8 million followers on Instagram and is one of the highest paid Angels, earning $7 million in 2016.
Take a look at how her career unfolded:
Swanepoel was born in the small farming village of Mooi River, South Africa in 1988.
She says that as a child she was a “tomboy” who did chores on her family’s dairy farm, not far from a Zulu village.
A modeling scout discovered Swanepoel when she was 15 and shopping at a local flea market.
By age 16, she had moved to Paris and quickly became one of the most sought-after runway models.
She met her current partner, Hermann Nicoli, in Paris when she was 17. He’s also a model.
This is what she looks like with and without her make-up on. In an interview, she said she is shy and reserved when she isn’t modeling.
Her biggest break-through came in 2010, when she was appointed a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
The next year, Swanepoel sH๏τ a Vogue Italia cover.She also posed for a Sєxy pictorial with GQ in 2012, where she said that men are always trying to impress her with their wealth.