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Meet Angelina Kendall, the Brazilian-New Zealand model dubbed the ‘baby Gisele Bündchen’

STORYIshani Sarkar
Brazilian-New Zealand model Angelina Kendall is being referred to as a “baby Gisele Bündchen”. Photo: AFP
Brazilian-New Zealand model Angelina Kendall is being referred to as a “baby Gisele Bündchen”. Photo: AFP
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Kendall has already walked runways for Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Loewe, and Stella McCartney raves about her – so who is she?

Fashion week has come and gone, but one name is still on everyone’s lips: Angelina Kendall. The 20-year-old, who is a “supermodel in waiting”, according to British Vogue, graced the runway for brands like Hermès, Isabel Marant, Rabanne and Stella McCartney during Paris Fashion Week after previously walking for Dolce & Gabbana and Max Mara in Milan.
Angelina Kendall at The BoF 500 Gala at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, on the sidelines of the Paris Fashion Week, on October 4. Photo: AFP
Angelina Kendall at The BoF 500 Gala at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, on the sidelines of the Paris Fashion Week, on October 4. Photo: AFP

She also recently attended the star-studded BoF 500 Gala in Paris, turning heads in a gossamer floral dress. She closed out her French outing with a bridal photo shoot for Vogue France, leaving fans buzzing.

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So, just who is Angelina Kendall?

What’s Angelina Kendall’s background?

Angelina Kendall has walked the runway for brands like Hermès. Photo: AFP
Angelina Kendall has walked the runway for brands like Hermès. Photo: AFP

Kendall was born in Sydney to a Brazilian mother who works as a dental nurse, and a New Zealand-born father who has his own construction business, according to British Vogue. Her parents have separated now, per Vogue Australia, but she was brought up in Australia’s Narrabeen and Wagga Wagga, with some time spent in her mum’s home city, Rio de Janeiro, where she learned Portuguese. She has two brothers.

“I’ve kind of always been in a social environment,” she told Vogue Australia.

She enjoys surfing and once aspired to be a doctor.

How was she discovered?

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