NEW YORK: Victoria’s Secret has a new angel in town.
The top lingerie fashion house has signed on 23-year-old Doutzen Kroes as one of the special group of models the company calls “Victoria's Secret Angels”.
Kroes joins the ranks of millionaire supermodels Heidi Klum and Adriana Lima, as well as past angels like Gisele Bundchen and Tyra Banks.
Along with Lima to promote the new lingerie from the "Supermodel Obsessions" range in New York, the Dutch model said, “It was just amazing and unbelievable and a dream coming true.”
Lima, according to Forbes.com, raked in US$7 million last year.
However, Kroes is no stranger to fame and fortune.
Gracing the covers of several fashion and society magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and starring in advertisements for Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana, Kroes was reported to have earned US$6 million last year.
In April 2006, she signed a three-year contract with L'Oreal Paris, and can now be seen in the company's commercials alongside Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington.
- CNA/yt