She gave birth to her second son Ariel less than a full month ago.
And Victoria’s Secret Angel Candice Swanepoel has already achieved a spectacularly svelte post baby body, with only the slightest vestige of her bump remaining.
The 29-year-old, who also shares a one-year-old son called Anacan with her fiance Hermann Nicoli, put her figure on display in a peekaboo one-piece as she gamboled across a beach in Victoria, Brazil.
Her black bathing suit offered a generous view of her cleavage and highlighted her sculpted derriere, and she accessorized with a barely-there ankle bracelet.
The modeling sensation, who was born in the small South African town Mooi River and discovered professionally in Durban, was not afraid to get her sumptuous hair drenched.
She swept her sopping wet locks behind her head as she emerged from the water and strode across the sand, eventually tying her hair tightly into a bun.
Once she was up on dry land, Candice wound a charcoal wrap skirt around her waist, keeping it low enough that the midriff-flashing gap in her swimsuit was still partly visible.
Without the wrap on, she spread a towel across a grᴀssy area and lay down on her stomach, checking her phone through a pair of yellow-rimmed sunglᴀsses.
Hermann, who reportedly first met Candice in Paris when she was all of 17 years old, has been with her since 2005 and happens himself to be from Brazil – so she learned Portuguese from him.
Candice gave birth to Anacan, their first child, in October of 2016 and announced on June 19 this year that she had welcomed little Ariel into the world.
The model had to use her Insta Stories to respond to people who lambasted her for some of her post-baby ʙικιɴι pH๏τos
‘This is me 12 days after having my son. If you have something bad to say about it … Check yourself,’ she said.
‘Society can be so cruel to one another. Beauty standards are sometimes impossible for women these days. I am not ashamed to show my post-partum tummy, I am proud actually.’
The mother of two shared: ‘I carried my son for nine months in there, I think I’ve earned the right to have a little tummy.’
She made it clear to her more than 12 million Instagram followers that in spite of being a Victoria’s Secret Angel ‘We are normal people too, so let me enjoy the beach in peace please.’
Said Candice: ‘I don’t have to hide my stomach just because people have unrealistic standards of women. We create life … What can you do?’
She told British Vogue last year that in the wake of new motherhood ‘I can’t watch movies, or even commercials, where kids are in any kind of danger now.’
When little Anacan was still an infant, he was already co-starring with his mother in a Gap pH๏τo-shoot, resulting in what Candice confided was ‘definitely a different dynamic on set to what I’m used to!’