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Since 2009, lingerie model Behati Prinsloo has been an international sensation as one of the major faces of Victoria’s Secret and its subsidiary brand, Pink. From her childhood in Namibia to decade-long relationship with Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine, see all the basics you need to know about the supermodel ahead.
She and Adam Levine just welcomed their third child.
The couple officially became parents of three children in January 2023, a source confirmed to People. They have yet to reveal the gender or name of their baby.
Prinsloo debuted her baby bump on September 3, while out on a lunch date with Levine in Santa Barbara. For the outing, she wore a loose silk midi dress in blue with floral patterns, paired with a messy bun.
Her pregnancy reveal followed the model's previous comments that both she and Levine would love to have five kids together one day.
"I do also want five kids," she said to Entertainment Tonight last November. "We want a big family," she added. "Who knows, we're leaving it up to fate and just what happens. What will happen, will happen. So there's no limits to it."
The model continued at the time, "With COVID too, I was just seeing [my daughters] together, like, 'Maybe we should have a third just to have more kids.' Because it was so sweet to see [them together]. But then, I don't know. Never say never."
She's a Victoria's Secret Angel.
Prinsloo, 34, is one of the stars of the lingerie brand, along with other models like Elsa Hosk, Josephine Skriver, and Sara Sampaio. (Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio were also on the roster, but retired from VS in 2018 and 2017, respectively.)
Prinsloo earned the coveted Angel title in 2009, two years after first walking the VS catwalk in 2007, according to Insider. She sat out of the runway spectacle in 2016 and 2017, because she was pregnant (but more on that later), and returned in 2018. Levine is often seen in the front row cheering on Behati as she struts.
Behati has graced high-fashion catwalks as well. In addition to Victoria's Secret, she's modeled for designers like Alexander Wang, Versace, Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, and more at various fashion weeks.
She and Adam first met via email.
Levine first got his wife's contact information through a mutual friend when he was looking for a model for one of his music videos, Prinsloo revealed on Watch What Happens Live. Although she wasn't able to take the job, she and Levine kept emailing for "weeks and weeks," and they eventually met for a date when she was in L.A.
"It was kind of love at first sight," she said on WWHL.
The two attended their first event as a couple in 2012 for GQ's Gentlemen's Ball in New York City.
It wasn't all smooth sailing for the pair from then on though. In May 2013, news broke that Levine ended things with Prinsloo and started dating model Nina Agdal, Us Weekly reported. However, he quickly returned to his former flame, and by July that year, they were engaged.
They married in 2014 and soon after started a family.
Prinsloo and Levine tied the knot in a private wedding ceremony in Los Cabos, Mexico, in July 2014, People reported. Later, they welcomed two daughters: Dusty Rose Levine, who was born in September 2016, and Gio Grace Levine, who was born in February 2018.
"I think for both of us, we're just so obsessed with being a family and having a family—seeing this next step in our life," Prinsloo previously told People of being a parent.
She grew up in Namibia.
Prinsloo was born in South Africa and raised in Grootfontein, Namibia. She's from a "small town," she told Fashionista in 2009. "My dad's a minister and my mom runs a bed and breakfast," she added. "I'm an only child and pretty much did kid stuff, gymnastics, track, riding, field hockey. I hung out on my friend's farm a lot."
However, Behati was discovered as a model in Cape Town—twice. The first time, she was on vacation with her grandparents and a man scouted her after they went to church, she added to Fashionista. Prinsloo ultimately didn't do anything about the offer after consulting her family about it. However, when she returned to Cape Town later on, Noelle Doukas, daughter of Storm Models founder Sarah Doukas, found her and invited her to the agency.
She's been in a bunch of Maroon 5 music videos.
You might best recall Prinsloo's appearance in Maroon 5's "Animals" video, but she's also appeared in plenty more of the band's visuals, including "Cold" and "Girls Like You (Volume 2)."
