Lais Ribeiro, Victoria's Secret Brazilian Bombshell
Maxim|September/October 2018

Model Lais Ribeiro quietly paid her dues for 10 years before conquering fashions main stage. Shes finally arrivedand shes here to stay.

Priya Rao
Lais Ribeiro, Victoria's Secret Brazilian Bombshell

New York has had a pretty mild summer— the average temperature for the month of May was a refreshing 65 degrees—but on the June day I’m scheduled to meet Brazilian supermodel Lais Ribeiro, it is positively sweltering. Apropos, considering how hot the 27-year-old is in the flesh.

While this journalist’s face is sticky, and hair equal parts frizzy, Ribeiro walks into the Nomad location of the inviting Maman bakery like she just got off the set of a photo shoot. Snapple in hand, the lithe stunner with practically no makeup on isn’t really complaining about the heat— did I mention the restaurant’s air-conditioning was on the fritz that day? “I give up,” she laughs, while twirling her slicked-back ponytail into a bun.

Ribeiro gets a few noticeable glances at Manhattan hot spot Maman, and many more later as we walk by the Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park, but it’s something that she is used to after almost a decade in the spotlight. In fact, Ribeiro might even say she encourages fandom (she does have a cool 1.7 million Instagram followers and 96.7K Twitter followers). “These days it’s a bit tricky if you just do [social media] to show people that this, modeling, is your job,” she says. “It’s not what I do every day. I have a family; I have friends!”

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