Kate Upton (born June 10, 1992 in St. Joseph, Michigan as Katherine Elizabeth Upton ) is an American model known for her "Rookie of the Year" appearance in the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Although Kate was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, she was raised in Melbourne, Florida. She has three siblings. Her uncle Fred Upton is the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district.

An avid horseback rider, she showed for the American Paint Horse Association and competed on a national level. With her horse "Roanie Pony," she won three APHA Reserve World Championships, in 13 and Under Western Riding, 13 and Under Horsemanship and 14-18 Western Riding and named the 13 and Under Reserve All-Around Champion at the APHA World Championship Show giving her a total of five championships. In addition, Upton ended up 3rd overall on the APHA youth Top Twenty. With a second horse Zipped, she won 14-18 Western Riding and were top 5 in 14-18 Horsemanship and 14-18 Western Pleasure in 2009.

In 2008, Kate Upton attended an open casting call in Miami for Elite Model Management and was signed the same day. Upton eventually moved to New York City, where she signed with IMG Models. Kate first modeled for Garage, then Dooney & Bourke. She is the 2010-2011 face of Guess. In 2011, Upton appeared in the SI Swimsuit Issue. She was featured in the body-paint section and eventually named "Rookie of the Year" for the issue. She has since modeled for Beach Bunny swimwear and Victoria's Secret.

Born Kelly Parsons on November 23, 1979, in Kent, Rochester, England, Kelly Brook is the daughter of Sandra, a cook, and Ken, a scaffolder. It was clear from the start that Kelly would be much more.

Kelly Brook is one of England's best-known models, who is regularly included in the Top 10 of most men's magazines' "Sexiest Women" polls.

Her talent can be traced back to when she attended the prestigious Italia Conte stage school, where Naomi Campbell and Louise Nurding also studied. After three years of training in dance, singing and acting, Kelly was ready to start her career

Kelly Brook's mom entered her in a beauty contest, which of course Kelly won, and this led to her interest in modeling. After some small modeling jobs at local firms, including the flooring company KMS, Kelly Brook was gracing the cover of GQ, FHM, Sky, Cosmopolitan, Tatler, The Face, and Company by the age of 16.

Her gorgeous physique also slipped into Lee Jeans as part of its advertising campaign, and she was known for playing the game show hostess "Nicky with the Ticky" for a Sure deodorant TV ad. She was finally making a larger salary as compared to her waitressing job at a tea shop.

Adriana Francesca Lima (born June 12, 1981) is  a  Brazilian model, best known  as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, and as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009. At age 15, Lima finished first in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City.

Modeling

Lima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school. However, she had a friend at school who wanted to enter a modeling contest and didn't want to enter alone, so Lima entered with her. Both sent in pictures, and the contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for the competition. Soon after, at the age of 15, she entered and finished in first place in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" model search. She subsequently entered the 1996 Ford "Supermodel of the World" contest and finished in second place. Three years later, Lima moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After acquiring representation, Lima's modeling portfolio quickly began to expand, and she appeared in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire. As a runway model, she has walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren and Valentino, among others. Lima became a GUESS? girl in 2000, appearing in that year's fall ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess? Images.

Lima continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from 2003 until 2009, the same year she appeared in the company's first calendar, a limited edition run also featuring Kemp Muhl, Jessica White, Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang. Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Mossimo, Armani, Bulgari, De Beers, FCUK, Intimissimi, Keds, Swatch, Versace, and BCBG. She also appeared on the covers and in the editorials of other fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, GQ, Arena, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue that magazine for the year, while her April 2008 cover brought a record number of hits to the magazine's website.[citation needed] She also appeared in the 2005 Pirelli Calendar and became the face of Italy's cell phone carrier, Telecom Italia Mobile, a move that earned her the nickname, "the Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy."

Jessica Gomes (born September 25, 1985) is an Australian model who appeared in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of the Swimsuit Issue of the United States–published magazine Sports Illustrated. She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist Joanne Gair, who is in her tenth year of producing bodypaint art for the Swimsuit Issue. She was part of a record group of seven "rookie" Swimsuit Issue models, along with Quiana Grant, Melissa Haro, Yasmin Brunet, Melissa Baker, Jeisa Chiminazzo and Jarah Mariano. In 2007, Gomes appeared in advertisements for Hyundai Sonata. In 2008, Gomes appeared in advertisements for LG Cyon Bikini Phone. For promotional use, she played baseball with the Korean baseball team LG Twins which led to celebrity-status in South Korea. In 2009, her reality TV-show "My name is Jessica Gomes" was launched on the Korean television network On Style owned by On-Media. After Gomes became the face of Emprani Cosmetics, they went on launching a new lipgloss named Gomes Pink. - (Source - Wikipedia)

Yésica Toscanini (born 26 March 1986 in Junín, Argentina) is a professional Argentinian fashion model.

She appeared in the 2006 and 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues. She was photographed for the cover of the Argentinian edition of Cosmopolitan and twice for Para Ti magazine. She also appeared in the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog of 2006. She played the high school sweetheart of Enrique Iglesias in the music video for "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)". In 2008 she was selected as the girl for the Intimissimi spring–summer ad campaign.

Through legal counsel she requested, and was granted the right, to have all her images and data to be removed from internet search results in Argentina. (source:Wikipedia.com)