Candice Swanepoel was born on October 20, 1988 in Mooi River, South Africa small farming village in the Midlands of KwaZulu- Natal – she was spotted by model scout Kevin Ellise in a Durban flea market at the tender age of 15, and by 16 she was earning 5 000 Euros or R40 000 for a day’s work. Kevin Ellise said, ‘It was like… honestly, like a beautiful flamingo walking past my shop. The way she walked past just did it for me”. She supposedly hit the runway at the nubile age of 16. In 2007 Candice became the first South African model to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. And since then Candice has done every brand’s grand show. She has appeared in numerous catalogs and TV commercials and in 2010, she became one of the company’s signature Angels. Candice Swanepoel’s graced the covers for Vogue (Greece, Portugal, Italy, Brazil), ELLE(Germany), GQ, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan (South Africa), and has done editorials for Industrie, VMagazine, Allure, Harper’s Bazaar (Spain, Turkey, Arg