
She’s a jeans-and-T-shirt girl. She likes — and eats — bread. She wasn’t discovered in a remote place by a famous scout or photographer. And at 25, she has curves that have kept her off a lot of high fashion runways.
But somehow, none of that matters.
Kroes ranked No. 5 this year on the Forbes list of top-earning models. She’s most recognized as a Victoria’s Secret Angel, the brand’s top tier of models, a spokeswoman for L’Oreal and the former face of Calvin Klein Eternity.
“My life has always been like I’m in a bubble and it’s floating and it goes in the right direction,” Kroes says. “I don’t want to interrupt it.”
It was Kroes, a Dutch native, who got the ball — or bubble — rolling. As a teenager, she saw a magazine photo of a model and she thought to herself, “She has beautiful hair, beautiful makeup, a beautiful dress, and I thought I’d like to look like that one day.”
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