BRAZILIAN model Gisele Bündchen takes top spot in Forbes’ annual list of the top 10 highest paid models for the sixth year running.

Gisele Bündchen is still the world’s highest paid model by a long way, according to Forbes’ annual Highest Paid Models list. She takes the title for the sixth consecutive year. Over the last 12 months, the combined earnings of the top ten highest-paid models, totals just under $100 million (£64 million) - with seven of the 10 places on the list being filled by either current or former Victoria’s Secret poster girls.
The publication estimates that Brazilian beauty Bündchen - who is rumoured to be expected with her second child - raked in $45 million in the year from May 2011 to May 2012, attributing her earnings to endorsement deals with Pantene, Esprit and Versace, as well as her Ipanema sandals line and other products bearing her name. “The ones that are coming up, their model for excellence is Gisele. They’re looking at her and saying ‘that’s what I want to shoot for,’” Ed Razek, chief marketing officer of Limited Brands, told Forbes of Bundchen’s combined business and modelling acumen.                          –Agencies