Esther Canadas Biography

Full name: Esther Canadas

Birth date: 1977-10-01

Birth place: Alicante, Costa Blanca, Spain

Height: 5' 10"

Occupation and job : Model

Esther Canadas was born on the 1st of March 1977 in Alicante, Costa Blanca, Spain. Her first career plan was to go into criminology but her mother urged her to try modeling. She then started to love the job and wanted to pursue it further. With the urging of her mother, Esther’s career as a model started when she won the local teen beauty pageant. She won the competition and went to South Africa as a representative of her country. It was then that she decided to do molelling. 

At the age of fifteen, Esther Canadas left her home and went to Barcelona on her own and started working. Since then she had been working in Spain, Paris, Sweden and the United States as a model. Esther modeled for top designers including, Givenchy, Versace, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, Moschino, Channel, Dolche & Gabanna, Michael Kors, Alexander Mc Queen and Valentino. With working for the different designers across the globe, Esther Canadas realized that modeling was something more than a job. She begun to truly love and appreciate her place in it. 

She moved to New York in 1996, where it took only two days for her to get booked by twenty designers. Her modeling career took off from then on. The various advertisements she has appeared in include: Atelier Versace, J Crew, Mossimo, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Victoria's Secret. She is probably most known, however, for her appearances in DKNY ads. She has graced the cover of Elle Spain, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire Italy, Mondo Uomo, as well as Vogue Spain -- all in 1997. Esther has walked down the catwalk at many designer fashion shows, including shows for Calvin Klein, D&G, DKNY, Oscar de la Renta, Richard Tyler, Todd Oldham, Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Versace, and Givenchy -- just to name a few. 

Esther made her feature film debut with an appearance in 1999's action/romance The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.Esther is definitely a natural beauty, admitting that she doesn't diet or exercise regularly. According to her, modeling has given her the opportunity to travel around the world, although the life of a model can get lonely from all the moving around. She refers to this loneliness by explaining that "the often solitary lifestyle demands an inner strength." Evidently not living in solitude, Esther recently married Dutch model Mark Vanderloo in 1999.