The World's 15 Top-Earning Models

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The World's 15 Top-Earning Models

1. Gisele Bundchen - $35 Million

The highest-paid model said goodbye to Victoria's Secret in 2007, but still juggles 20 contracts.



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2. Heidi Klum - $14 Million

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The second highest-paid model in the world is more of a media and retail mogul, with hit shows in two countries and lines of jewelry, jeans and skincare.








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3. Kate Moss - $7.5 Million

The überwaif lost some important contracts last year, but her fashion line is an international hit.





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4. Adriana Lima - $7 Million

The Brazilian beauty remains hugely popular on the Web and in her Victoria's Secret commercials.




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5. Doutzen Kroes - $6 Million

This honey from Holland, 23, makes the longest leap up the list this year thanks to her contracts with Calvin Klein, L'Oréal and Victoria's Secret.



















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6. Karolina Kurkova - $5 Million

The Victoria's Secret babe remains one of the lingerie giant's most important--and highest paid--models.










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7. Natalia Vodianova - $4.8 Million

This ravishing Russian and mother of three, 26, has been a Calvin Klein muse for longer than any other model, including Kate Moss.




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8. Carolyn Murphy - $4.5 Million

The face of Estée Lauder has no trouble bagging other clients.



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9. Daria Werbowy - $3.8 Million

This Canadian may not be a household name, but she's a household face.





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10. Miranda Kerr - $3.5 Million

The bewitching babe from Down Under is Victoria's Secret's latest star. Kerr is getting a bit of a late start,
breaking through in her delectable Victoria's Secret campaigns at the ripe age of 23.




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11. Isabeli Fontana - $3 Million

This gorgeous Revlon model makes her list debut. Fontana, 24, hasn't been around too much lately, as she took some time off to raise her two children.





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11. Gemma Ward - $3 Million

Ward, 21, has contracts with Japanese cosmetics giant Kose, Valentino, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Karl Lagerfeld, Swarovski and Louis Vuitton.


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12. Selita Ebanks - $2.7 Million

This lingerie lovely is the latest Victoria's Secret millionaire.
The 25-year-old was born in the Cayman Islands and lived in New York while contemplating a career in law.




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13. Valentina Zelyaeva - $2.3 Million

This classically beautiful Muscovite is the exclusive face of Ralph Lauren and two L'Oréal fragrances.
is also sitting pretty with one of the best contracts in the business.







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14. Hilary Rhoda - $2 Million

The new face of Estée Lauder is also hailed as the new face of fashion.
The stunning 21-year-old former athlete from Chevy Chase, Md., is the heir to the famous faces of Estée Lauder.




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15. Liya Kebede - $1.5 Million

Estée Lauder's first black model was phased out of the company's ads last year, but she's staying.
This 30-year-old Ethiopian groundbreaker hangs on by her manicured fingernails to the list of contracts with H&M, The Gap, Anne Taylor and Givenchy.



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A leading fashion model who had worked for Chanel has been found hanged in her Paris flat after leaving a final post on her blog that read: “Say hi to forever.”

Daul Kim, 22, was discovered by a male friend in her apartment in the 10th arrondissement yesterday morning. Police said that they suspected suicide.

The Korean-born model, who broke on to the European fashion scene in 2007, had recently also worked for Dries Van Noten and Alexander McQueen.

She chronicled her thoughts and told of the pressures and loneliness of the catwalk in a blog under the title “I want to fork myself”. She left her final post along with a video of I Go Deep by Jim Rivers, a British singer. The entry ended: “Best track forever.”
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Friends said that Kim was in a fragile emotional state and suffered from the pressure of her career. On October 30 she wrote: “Mad depressed and overworked, the more I gain the more lonely it is. I know I’m like a ghost.”

Her suicide, if confirmed, would be the second by a supermodel in Paris this year. In March Lucy Gordon, 28, a British model-turned-actress, was found hanged in her flat in the fashionable Bohemian district on the Right Bank, where Kim also had her apartment.

Kim’s family were flying to the city last night. Esteem, her agency in Seoul, asked for respect for the family’s privacy. Her Paris agency, Next, said that she was “a top model and a great friend of all of us”.

Kim, a regular on the catwalks of London, Milan and New York, was brought up in Seoul and Singapore. She modelled in Asia before making her appearance at Paris Fashion Weekin 2007, modelling for Chanel, Dries Van Noten and Maison Martin Margiela. She recently appeared in a commercial for Christopher Kane’s Topshop line.

Kim’s English-language blog was flooded with tributes from admirers. The poetically written journal reflected her hobbies of painting and video film-making. Some of the entries spoke of her emotions while others covered favourite art topics.

In one of her early posts, she wrote: “My life as Daul was so sad and lonely. Join me in my solitude in another world.”

On October 31 she posted the entry: “I think this year I will remember today as the day I slept 10 hours without any help of anything or anyone without any dreams and woke up feeling peaceful and happy. No more running away from something or someone or myself.”

‘Honestly, I’ve been in hell’

November 18 “Say hi to forever”

November 15 “Oh but how lonely it is. then and now”

October 30 “I was getting mad depressed and overworked in seoul. ppl tell me to do something, and i do it, and then they always tell me don’t do anything. and when i don’t do anything they also tell me to do something”

October 29 “What are you doing for halloween . . . nothing special i’m already a monster”

October 26 “So many times I almost jumped but didn’t”

October 15 “My life is so god damn predictable its disgusting”

October 10 “So imagine . . . how much stress i get from work honestly ive been in hell last few weeks”

September 25 “I wore high high heels and short short skirts to hide my depression and weakness tried to hide my loneliness by hornyness”

August 22 “I need to learn how to stop destroying myself and be nice to myself”

Source: iliketoforkmyself.blogspot.com