Izabel Goulart

Date of birth: October 23, 1984
Astrological Zodiac sign: Libra
Age: 28

Maria Izabel Goulart Dourado, better known as Izabel Goulart, is a Brazilian model. She is best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels from 2005 to 2008 and for her recent work with Armani Exchange.

Izabel was born on October 23, 1984 in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. She is of Italian descent and has four brothers and one sister. Izabel once said "the hardest part about being an Angel is I spend time away from my mom's food and away from my home with my five brothers and sister." School was a particularly rough time for Izabel, as she was made fun of for her skinny build, and was even called names such as "giraffe".

While shopping for groceries with her mother at age 14, a hairstylist suggested that she should become a model. She moved to the state's capital São Paulo and started modeling.

During Izabel's first ever fashion show appearance, she experienced a wardrobe malfunction when her top fell open. The unfortunate incident made many Brazilian newspapers and remains her most embarrassing moment. She was able to put her rocky start behind her and returned to the runway to model collections for A-list designers such as Bill Blass, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, Jill Sander, Chanel, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren and Stella McCartney, among many others.

She first appeared in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2005, the year she was contracted as an Angel. Although she is not an Angel any longer, she remains working for the company. She has shot for top photographers such as Terry Richardson, David Sims, Greg Kadel, and Vincent Peters for such publications as French and Japanese Vogue, French magazine, and Numero. She was replaced by Rianne ten Haken as the face of Armani Exchange.

Izabel was reportedly engaged to businessman Marcelo Costa on August 2006. However, on the February 7, 2008 Conan O'Brien show, she mentioned that she was single.

After being spotted partying at a club in Russia on June 2008 she has been reportedly link to Russian soccer star Diniyar Bilyaletdinov.

Izabel does charitable work helping with hospitals in her native Brazil to raise money to provide free insulin for diabetic children in need. She also wants to help on finding a cure for diabetes.

See also:  Model,  Victoria's Secret,  Brazilian,  Italian,  Armani Exchange