Carolyn Murphy

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CM’s career kicked into high-gear when she bleached her hair platinum blonde for a photo shoot, ruining her hair and causing it to fall out. Because of this she had to get a short hair cut which made her popular with many top photographers and soon she was in major magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and was named VH1/Vogue’s “Model of the Year” at the 1998 Fashion Awards. Murphy is featured on the cover of the 2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, as well as the 1999 cover of Vogue’s “Models of the Millennium.” She has also posed for the 2002 Playboy calendar. In 2001, she became the face of Estée Lauder cosmetics. She also started an acting career with the role of “Dubbie the Blonde” in Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights in 1999.Her estimated earning of USD 3 million.

Miranda Kerr

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Following her success with Maybelline, Kerr became the first Australian model to be offered a contract with Victoria’s Secret and upon her acceptance, the first ever Australian Victoria’s Secret Angel,joining the stable of models already signed to the lingerie giant, including Gisele Bündchen, Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolína Kurková, Adriana Lima, Selita Ebanks, Izabel Goulart, and Heidi Klum. Kerr’s popularity continued to increase as one of the globally recognized Angels when she appeared in the Victoria’s Secret 2006, 2007 and 2008 televised runway shows, which aired on four continents.
Actor Orlando Bloom’s girlfriend Miranda Kerr ranked ninth, with an estimated income of USD 3.5 million.

Daria Werbowy

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Werbowy had never seriously considered modeling, but found herself launched into the business after meeting a schoolmate’s mother who headed Toronto’s Susan J. Model & Talent Management. Though she relinquished the world’s No.1 runway model status to new “it girls”, Werbowy holds the record for opening and closing the most shows in one season. To date, Werbowy’s clients have included Lancôme, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, Pepe Jeans, Roberto Cavalli, Gucci, Hermès, Valentino, David Yurman, Missoni, Versace, Louis Vuitton and Chanel.
Polish-born Daria Werbowy, with an annual earning of USD 4.5 million, is the eighth model on the list.

Natalia Vodianova
07nv Worlds Hottest and Highest paid modelsAt age 15, Vodianova enrolled in a modelling academy, was told she would need to learn English to succeed, and mastered the language in three months.By age 17, Vodianova had moved to Paris, France and signed with Viva Model Management Paris.Vodianova has achieved considerable success as a runway, editorial and advertising campaign model. To date, Vodianova has walked in more 175 runway shows for U.S. and European based designers’ ready-to-wear and haute couture collections.
NV was raised in an impoverished family in Russia has cornered the seventh place with earnings to the tune of USD 5.5 million.

Alessandra Ambrosio
06aa Worlds Hottest and Highest paid modelsAA’s best known collaboration is with American lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret. She appeared in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the first time in 2000, and continues to be a participant in the subsequent shows. Her most notable walk down the runway was in 2005 wearing lingerie made entirely out of candy.In 2004, she was selected as the first spokesmodel for Victoria’s Secret PINK line. She is currently a contract ‘Angel’ and spokesmodel for Victoria’s Secret.Her ‘Angel’ status has brought her to the public’s attention being cited by the popular media as one of the world’s sexiest women.
Twenty eight-year-old Alessandra Ambrosio of Brazil is also ranked fifth alongside Kroes, with her earnings tallying at around USD 6 million.

Doutzen Kroes
05dk Worlds Hottest and Highest paid modelsKroes has made the covers of Time, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Seventeen, Elle, marie claire, glamour, W, Avantgarde, Dazed & Confused and Numéro. She also appears regularly in the Victoria’s Secret catalog and walked the runway of the company’s fashion show in 2005, 2006 and 2008. Kroes’ campaigns include Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Escada, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Versace, Hugo Boss, Guerlain,Botegga Venetta, De Beers, Escada, GAP, Gianfranco Ferre, and Neiman Marcus. In August 2005, she was named spokesmodel for the Calvin Klein “Eternity” fragrance campaign, replacing American actress Scarlett Johansson, and, in April 2006, she signed a three-year contract with L’Oréal Paris.
At the fifth position is Dutch looker Doutzen Kroes, the face of cosmetic company L’Oreal, and she raked in USD six million.

Adriana Lima
04al Worlds Hottest and Highest paid modelsLima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school.Lima however continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from 2003 until 2009, the same year she appeared in the company’s first calendar, a limited edition run also featuring Kemp Muhl, Jessica White, Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang. Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Mossimo, Armani, Bulgari, De Beers, FCUK, Intimissimi, Keds, Swatch, Versace, and BCBG. Lima’s first acting role was the wife, alongside Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker, in The Follow (2001), a short film in BMW’s series The Hire, starring Clive Owen. She also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the series How I Met Your Mother in November 2007.
AL has earned USD eight million in the last year and made it to Forbes’ list at Number Four.

Kate Moss

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Brit Moss was discovered in 1988 at the age of 14 by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm Model Management, at JFK Airport in New York City,after a holiday in Jamaica. Moss’s career began when Corinne Day shot black-and-white photographs of her, styled by Melanie Ward, for British magazine The Face when she was 15, in a photo shoot titled “The Third Summer of Love”. Moss was voted 8th in Celebrity Sleuth’s “25 Sexiest Women of 2004″, 8th in Maxim’s “50 Sexiest Women of 1999″ and 22nd in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women of 1995″. Men’s magazine Arena named her as their Sexiest Woman in their 150th issue. In March 2007, Moss won the Sexiest Woman NME Award. She made her first appearance in the British women’s Sunday Times Rich List in 2007, where she was estimated to be worth £45 million.
Thirty five-year-old icon Kate Moss placed on the third spot with an earning of USD 8.5 million.

Heidi Klum

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Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum was voted the winner on April 29, 1992 and offered a modeling contract worth US$300,000 by Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York.In December 2004, she became the host, judge and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo, in which fashion designers compete for the opportunity to show their line at New York Fashion Week and receive money to launch their own fashion line.Klum has two fragrances, called “Heidi Klum” and “Me”. She designed makeup for Victoria’s Secret as part of their “Very Sexy Makeup Collection”, titled “The Heidi Klum Collection”. The first run debuted in Fall 2007. A second run was released in Fall 2008.
35-year-old Heidi Klum of Germany, with an estimated earning of USD 16 million. The majority of Klum’s earnings are driven by her TV and endorsement career. The model has endorsement deals with Diet Coke, Volkswagen, McDonald’s and LG, the report said.

And the Hottest and the Highest-paid is ….

Gisele Bündchen
01jb Worlds Hottest and Highest paid modelsIn 1993, a then-13-year-old Bündchen joined a modeling course with her sisters Patrícia and Gabriela at her mother’s insistence. The following year, Bündchen went to São Paulo on a school excursion to give them an opportunity to walk in a big city. In a shopping mall, while eating at McDonald’s with her friends, Bündchen was discovered by a modeling agency. She was subsequently selected for a national contest, Elite Look of the Year, in which she placed second — Claudia Menezes, from Bahia, took first place. Bündchen placed fourth in the world contest, held in Ibiza, Spain. In 1996, Bündchen moved to New York City to begin her modeling career, debuting at Fashion Week.She won the VH1/Vogue Model of the Year for 1999, and a January 2000 cover gave her the rare honor of three consecutive Vogue covers. In 2000, she became the fourth model to appear on the cover of the music magazine Rolling Stone, when she was named “the most beautiful girl in the world.”Bündchen has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including W, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Allure, international editions of Vogue, as well as style and lifestyle publications such as i-D, The Face, Arena, Citizen K, Flair, GQ, Esquire, and Marie Claire.
Brazilian beauty Bündchen has topped the list of top-earning models. At 28, she has earnings to the tune of USD 25 million from numerous campaigns, including those for brands like Versace, True Religion jeans and Dior.

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