At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

She is fluent in Afrikaans and Portuguese which Candice Swanepoel learned from her boyfriend Hermann Nicoli a Brazilian male model. Career
Candice Swanepoel was spotted by a model scout in a Durban flea market at age 15. In 2013 Swanepoel was named the cover model of the coveted Victoria's Secret Swim Catalogue.

In 2012 Candice Swanepoel came in 10th on the Forbes top-earning models list.