Candice Swanepoel

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

Women are complicated. We all know that.

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

Victoria's Secret is like a big family.

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

I have always been very comfortable in little clothing; its part of my job.

If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

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.'

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

I am healthy and happy.

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.