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Fernanda Tavares
Date of birth	September 22, 1980 (1980-09-22) (age 28)
Place of birth	Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Hair color	Dark brown
Eye color	Brown
Measurements	88-61-90 cm
Spouse(s)	Murilo Rosa1

Fernanda Tavares (born on September 22, 1980) is a Brazilian model.

Biography

Born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Tavares was appearing in local shows at the age of nine, and at just 13 she won the "Elite Look of the Year" contest. A year later, she was invited by agents to go to São Paulo to pursue a modeling career. In 1998, at the age of 17, she was already appearing on the covers of fashion magazines – L'Officiel Paris, Deutsch and U.S. Marie Claire and Vogue Paris – having signed up with the Marilyn Modeling Agency in both New York City and Paris. She would later go on to appear in numerous other popular magazines, including ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Allure, and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Since 1998, Tavares has walked for many notable designers, including Chanel, Emanuel Ungaro, Versace, Blumarine, Chloé, Christian Lacroix, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, Valentino, John Galliano, Sonia Rykiel, Yohji Yamamoto, Hervé Léger, Missoni, and Gap. Tavares has helped promote^{clarification needed} brands like Versace, Chloé, Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Mano, Nine West, Zoomp, and was a top figure in the Ralph Lauren Spring 2000 collection. She signed a $1.3 million deal with perfume company Guerlain and has appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalogs and their 2000 fashion show in Cannes. She has also appeared in anti-fur advertisements for animal rights group PETA.

Tavares is a VJ for MTV Brasil, in which she hosts Missão MTV, a show modeled after Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

She also enjoys swimming and jogging and she is good friends with fellow Brazilian model, Gisele Bündchen.

References

External links

• Fernanda Tavares in the Fashion Model Directory
• Fernanda Tavares at the Internet Movie Database
• Fernanda Tavares at AskMen.com