Raquel Zimmermann worships cookies. If it was able to, she'd eat them every day. But, even being thin, a lot thin, of the kind that suffered in the infancy with nicknames as Olivia I Pick and model of the Coscarque (tea of weight loss, famous in his land, Rio Big of the South), she does not have the luxury of eating candies every day. About the profession. She is Model number 1 on the ranking of the site models.com, the gaucho that began the career ten years before, in an ELLE editorial (was with that stuff in hands that she arrived to the photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, a sort of godmother to her fashion career), and she abhors gymnastics. She maintains her form by running a time weekly in a mat in its house and surfing, when it is possible. "When i was in Hawaii I was dying of fear. If you fall on the coral, you break your nose", she recounted during the session of pictures for the layer of anniversary of ELLE, made in a studio in Chelsea, in new york. With a diary that would leave a lot people crazy – the previous day to the shooting, she was in Los Angeles doing a campaign and the next day would embark for Rome –, Raquel is surprisingly serene. Happt to do everything for our magazine – "it is a honor", there was no question – she was happy to talk to anyone and asked for nothing. She does not have star quality. Does not have freshness. She does not do weird requests – the unique one was a bottle of champagne. With the air of girl (she is 24 old years), she arrived at the studio wearing a 45 RPM flannel shirt, tennis Vans, Karl Lagerfeld skinny jeans, a leather jacket and a woolen cap, a look grunge chic that would be seen in any station of subway of the city. Gradually, during the makeup, she was incorporating that magic that is usually seen in each picture. "Is coming, is coming", she joked, simulating a ready medium to receive an entity. She has lived for eight years in new york, Raquel lived for a short time in the hubbub of Manhattan (she lived in the 23 with the Second one) to the tranquility of the Brooklin, where she lives with her boyfriend, the photographer Ruy Sanchez Blanco. She keeps a low profile, does not like to squander money – "I do not think because some people that find that themselves earning alot now should spend alot now" – and conserves friends from the beginning of her career, as in the case of the make-up artist Diego Américo, that made her up for this magazine, clicked by the photographer Jacques Dequeker. "Did not I have colleagues from my job, then, those persons that accompany myself since the beginning are those that I confide in", she reveals. At the end of work, an hour of cookies with champagne. Raquel deserves it.