Doutzen Kroes Biography

Doutzen Kroes was born on 23 January 1985. She is a Dutch supermodel, actress, activist and philanthropist. She began her modelling career in 2003 in the Netherlands and quickly was sent by her agency to New York where she was cast by lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret. She became a Victoria’s Secret Angel for the brand in 2008.

She has been a brand ambassador and spokesperson for L’Oréal Paris for over 10 years. Kroes has been in the top five of best-paid models, with an estimated income of more than five million per year since 2008. In 2014, she came in second on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8 million in one year. As of December 2015, she was ranked as one of the “New Supers” in the fashion industry and dubbed “Helen of Troy of advertising” by Models.com.

She is one of few highly successful professional models who were not discovered by any scouting agency. She got accepted at Paparazzi Model Management in Amsterdam after sending some of her holiday pictures. Her first breakthrough was when she was featured on cover of Vogue Italia in 2005. Steven Meisel shot her pictures for the cover. Doutzen won “Model of The Year” on Vogue.com in the year 2005. The year 2013 was a significantly successful year for her modeling career. She became the first model/celebrity to land 4 different solo international covers of Vogue’s September issue in a single year.

The September issues are generally regarded as the most important issue of the year for fashion magazines, especially Vogue. She had been featured on a total of 8 Vogue covers, a count more than any other model, just in the year 2013. As of 2017, Kroes has appeared on 44 international covers of Vogue, which is more than any other model of her generation.

Her film debut was in Nova Zembla (2011). She is one of the active members to contribute to Dance4Life, a Dutch non-profit organization that uses song and dance to educate youth about HIV and AIDS prevention. She is also one of the supporters of Wildlife Conservation and World Wildlife Fund.

Doutzen Kroes Age

Doutze Kroes is 33 years old as per 2018.

Doutzen Kroes Height

5ft 9 (175.3 cm) Dutch model. She gets described this height by her agency with vital stats 34.5, 24.5, 24.5 and shoe size 10.

Doutzen Kroes Personal Life

Doutzen Kroes Sunnery James and their children

In 2009 Kroes started dating Dutch DJ Sunnery James. On 15 July 2010, Kroes announced that she was pregnant with her first child by fiancé Sunnery James. On 7 November 2010, she and Sunnery James married in Eastermar. On 21 January 2011, Kroes gave birth to her first child, son Phyllon Joy Gorré. In February 2014 she announced her second pregnancy. On 22 March 2014 it was revealed Kroes was expecting a baby girl. Myllena Mae Gorré was born on the morning of 30 July 2014. Both children were born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In an April 2014 interview on the future of her daughter, Kroes said: “Instead of saying, ‘You’re so beautiful’, I’ll say, ‘You’re smart’, so she’ll have different aspirations in life than beauty and modeling. Though I love my job, I’m not changing the world. I’d love for her to study and to have different aspirations. We need to teach girls they can become presidents, and it’s not about beauty all the time.”

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