Candice Swanepoel

What I find compelling about Candice Swanepoel is the sheer distance she traveled, from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to the very top of the fashion world as a Victoria's Secret Angel and an eighth-place finisher on Forbes' top-earning models list. It would be easy to reduce her to her looks, but I read her career as a study in longevity and discipline. Plenty of models flare bright and vanish; she built something durable. I respect that she became a recognizable face and brand in an industry that chews people up, and I suspect there is more business savvy behind that than she gets credit for.

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Name (English)

Candice Swanepoel

Name (Japanese)

キャンディス・スワンポール

Reading

きゃんでぃす・すわんぽーる

Born

October 20, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Height

177 cm

Occupation

model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

• Official sitehttps://candiceswanepoel.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/candiceswanepoel/
• Xhttps://x.com/angelcandice
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice%20Swanepoel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233981

Tags

• KwaZulu-Natal
• model

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.