I'll try to translate the article.
Fernanda Tavares is at her beach. Her lace dress, a must have where she was born (Natal, RN), bare feet and a vibrant soundtreck, which makes her dance and laugh. The tension that many times sorrounds a photo session for a magazine cover is very distant. Everything seems like a joke for the 1,80m brunette, 58 kg, one of the best paid brazilian models of our time.
She's playfull, but when it comes to work, she's dead serious. A professional until the roots of her long hair, she doesn't screw up with her professional comitments. Not even when the temptation is huge. When she received the confirmation of a job in LA, she gave up right away the concert of her life, the band Pearl Jam was going to perform in Sao Paulo in december, last year. There is more: she was going on a date with her boyfriend, actor Murilo Rosa. But she kept it cool. " I let him go without me, of course. At least, there was someone representing me there" she said, proving she's not the jealous kind. "I think jealousy is a foolish thing. I've never been jealous and I pray to God to never let me be".
The model is careful when she talks about her boyfriend, also famous (in Brazil). She says her tomboy side found a perfect match in him. But she doesn't go further. "I'll say something Murilo says. When you love someone, you take care, you don't talk about it". The truth is that Fernanda is careful about what she says. Maybe because is dificult for a mega model to plan the next day. Or maybe, because in her story, a lot of things happened when she wasn't expecting.
At 13, the top came to Sao Paulo to take part in her first important constest. Even without making a penny, she caught the eye of Elite Models, who put her in the market. Her beginning was very hard. "When you are a newby, you see lots of people staring at you during the castings, not giving a damn about you. And you get a lot of "nos" until a producer or a photographer likes you. " In 1996, already in Marilyn models, she got an invitation to go to New York. But othing worked out in the US. Next year, in Milan, she was unoticed aswell.
Fernanda was thinking about giving up when an oportunity came in Paris, in 1998. "It was the last place I wanted to go. The older models said that everything was harder there. I used to think: that's not for me." But it was: in Paris, Fernanda finally happened. In four months, she was photographing with Mario Testino. In the same year, french Vogue named her among the promisses of the year. From that moment on, her career sky rocketed. Modeling for brands like Dolce and Gabanna and Versace, or photographing for L'Oreal Paris (which she has a contract until 2007), today she holds one of the biggest caches among brazilian models.
In 2004 she opened a new option in her career, saying yes to host her own show in MTV Brazil (Missao MTV). In a half hour show, her task was to transform someone else's look. "I felt I wasn't ready to host a Tv show, but I said yes because it was something laid back, like I am. I've had an offer to act in a movie before, but I said no".
In the end of last year, she decided to leave MTV. "I'm sad to stop hosting a shhow that is so much like me." The problem, she explains, is that the shootings took too much of her time. "Even so, it was great that the show happened, I learnt a lot, met a lot of people" She would like to go back to the TV, but she doesn't know when. "This year, I'm insisting in my modeling career. And, if it's possible, make a dream of mine come true: do a photography course. "
There you are guys. Sorry for any mistake in grammar or spelling!
that editorial, she's gorgeous in it!
