Jessica Gomes
Jessica Gomes was born on 25 September 1985,and is an Australian model who appeared in the Swimsuit Issue of the American publication Sports Illustrated every year from 2008 to 2015.With her half Chinese half Portuguese heritage, Jessica Gomes, is a bewitching brand of beauty. She was born in Sydney and raised in Perth, in a semi-rural environment.She is the youngest child in her family, with two older sisters and an older brother.Jessica Gomes is also an actress, known for Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017) and Cinderella (2016).
Gomes’s mother sent her to modelling classes at Linda-Ann Model Academy in the Perth suburb of Midland at the age of 13. There her acting led to a modeling contest and the start of her career.She first started with a kid’s modelling group. she says her first paid job was when shw was 10, it was for a local sport recreation TV commercial and she was holding a lacrosse stick. She did a shopping centre commercial and it went from there. Then she signed to an international agency when she was 17, and that’s when she started traveling. She traveled to Asia first and then went to New York . She was there for 6 years; Asia has always been a place that she go to a lot for work, so that is really cool. “Recently I was in Tokyo for the International Woolmark Awards, judging that, which was really fun. It’s nice now that I’ve gone into being more of a personality, where I can do things like judging design shows or doing those hands-on things, which is fun.”
Gomes has enjoyed much success through South Korean advertising campaigns.In 2007 she appeared in advertisements for Hyundai Sonata. The following year, she appeared in an advertisement for LG Cyon Bikini Phone, in which she promoted the split screen cellphone wearing a two-piece bikini, under the tagline “Touch the Wonder.” This ad campaign is credited as having pushed Gomes to stardom in South Korea.Her popularity grew, and by 2013 between her spokesmanships and Korean television show appearances, she had reached celebrity status.
Beyond her South Korean success, Gomes has appeared in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Glamour, American Glamour and Victoria’s Secret catalogue, has modeled for DKNY Jeans, Garnier, Levi’s, Motorola, Urban Outfitters and Victoria’s Secret, and appeared on the cover of Biba. She signed with Estee Lauder as the face of Sean John’s Unforgivable fragrance. She has been featured in ads for Jay-Z Rocawear. In 2009, she was in a Cass Beer ad campaign with Lee Min Ho.
She was the Maxim Cover girl for November 2011. On Friday 22 March 2013, Gomes was announced as the fashion ambassador for Australian retail giant David Jones Limited, replacing Miranda Kerr and joining Megan Gale, Jason Dundas, Montana Cox, Gai Waterhouse and Emma Freedman.That July, she debuted for Jones on the runway. After Gomes became the face of Enprani Cosmetics, she launched a lip gloss named Gomes Pink. Gomes has also shot editorials for the Australian and Vietnamese editions of Harper’s Bazaar and modelled for the cover of Cleo.
