After reports surfaced that Ambrosio was recovering from a medical procedure at Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center, a rep told PEOPLE that the model’s condition wasn’t serious. Alessandra went in for a medical visit, scheduled prior to her attendance at Coachella Music Festival, and is in good health,” her rep said.
The Brazilian model showed off her long legs on Sunday in a retro-style outfit of short overalls and a loose pink blouse paired with round sunglasses while shopping at the Brentwood Country Mart in L.A.
Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model. Ambrosio is best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret and was chosen as the first spokesmodel for the company’s “PINK” line. Ambrosio is currently one of the Victoria’s Secret Angels and has modeled for brands such as Next, Armani Exchange, Christian Dior, and Ralph Lauren.
Ambrosio serves as an ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Ambrosio was also selected by AskMen.com as Number 2 out of the “Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2008”. In 2012, she came in 6th on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $6.6 million in one year. Ambrosio was born in Erechim, Brazil on April 11, 1981. Her parents own a petrol station.
She has Italian and Polish ancestry. She enrolled at a modelling class at the age of 12, and at the age of 14, she was one of 20 finalists for the 1996 Elite Model Look national competition for Brazil. Ambrosio was always insecure about her large ears, and at the age of 12, she had cosmetic surgery to have her ears pinned back, though two years later she suffered complications. In 2006, she appeared on The Tyra Banks Show, and said that the surgery was a bad experience and has discouraged her from ever getting plastic surgery again.
When Ambrosio was 12 years old, she started modeling classes,and then began modeling for Dilson Stein at age 15. Competing in Brazil’s Elite Model Look competition started her modeling career in earnest. Her first notable modeling job was the cover of Brazilian Elle magazine. Elite passed along some of her Polaroids to Guess which led her booking the Millennium GUESS? campaign. She has since appeared in advertisements for brands like Revlon, Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, and Ralph Lauren, as well as the Pirelli Calendar. She has walked the catwalks for designers such as Prada, Chanel, and Oscar de la Renta.
She has appeared in numerous international magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan, Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Ocean Drive, Vogue and the only model to appear on the cover of Glamour in the United States in 2006.In 2004, Ambrosio launched her line of swimwear called Alessandra Ambrosio by Sais, a division of Rosa Chá. It sold 10,000 units in only its first month on the market. Ambrosio was the face for the UK company Next and starred in their first television campaign in 12 years. On the July 2009 cover of Marie Claire, Ambrosio appeared in a spread with Sacha Baron Cohen to promote Baron Cohen’s 2009 film Brüno.
Ambrosio, became the face of Brazilian sportswear brand Colcci costarring with Ashton Kutcher in a steamy denim ad. She was ranked No. 5 on Forbes’ The World’s Top-Earning Models list, with an estimated earnings of $5 million over the year 20102011. In October 2011, Ambrosio became Vogue’s blogger, commenting on her wardrobe by posting one photo of herself each day for a month.
On August 13, 2012 she appeared in the London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony as part of Rio de Janeiro’s Handover show By 2004, she was selected as the first spokesmodel for the Victoria’s Secret “PINK” line In 2005, she walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway wearing lingerie made entirely out of candy. In the 2008 edition of the Fashion Show, she walked the runway three months after giving birth to her first child, and opened the show the following year in 2009. The 2011 show saw her wearing the heaviest wings (30 lb) ever made for the show. In 2012, Ambrosio was chosen to wear the “Fantasy Bra”. The Floral Fantasy Bra, created by London Jewelers, features amethysts, rubies, sapphires and diamonds (including a 20-carat white diamond in the center), all set in rose and yellow gold, according to InStyle. There’s also a matching belt adorned with more than 5,200 precious stones.
Ambrosio has made several television appearances, notably a cameo as herself on HBO’s Entourage; The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn; Late Night with Conan O’Brien; A guest judge on Project Runway season 2: Team Lingerie and twice on The Tyra Banks Show. In 2006, she had a cameo on the box-office hit movie, Casino Royale appearing briefly as Tennis Girl #1. Ambrosio guest-starred on How I Met Your Mother (episode: “The Yips”) on November 26, 2007 with her fellow Victoria’s Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Selita Ebanks, Marisa Miller, Miranda Kerr, and Heidi Klum.
She is often cited by the popular media as one of the world’s sexiest women. As an Angel, she was chosen as one of People magazine’s annual “100 Most Beautiful People in the World” in May 2007. Ambrosio has been engaged to businessman Jamie Mazur since 2008. The couple have two children: daughter Anja Louise Ambrosio Mazur and son Noah Phoenix Ambrosio Mazur. She is the National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Alessandra Ambrosio said 80 percent of the time I’m on some beautiful island in a bikini. But I’m working and everybody else is on their honeymoon!.
Whether shes dressed up in candy or just being altogether angelic, the very spicy Alessandra Ambrosio is easily among the modeling worlds most beautiful women. A regular on the annual list of the AskMen Top 99 Most Desirable Women, shes also one of the highest-paid ladies in the industry as well. Perhaps most familiar to men as a resident Victorias Secret Angel since 2004, shes also graced the cover of countless magazines, while making memorable stops in movies (Casino Royale) and television (Entourage and How I Met Your Mother). Besides adding credence to the theory started by Gisele Bundchen that only undiscovered supermodels live in Brazil, Ambrosio is now a proud member of the Unofficial MILF Modeling Club where shes proudly flaunting off her post-baby shape to eager industry observers and her many male admirers around the world.