Colombian knockout Daniela Botero is one ravishing force to be reckoned with—just ask her one million followers (and counting). She’s as ambitious as she is elegant and exquisite: her physique is immaculately toned yet still soft and feminine; her eyes a striking shade of sage green under gorgeous brows.
Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, she moved halfway around the globe to Paris at the age of 17 to study journalism and communications. “That’s when everything started to change in my life…. Paris is where it all started,” she tells us. “When I went to Paris for school, I never thought I would become a model. I come from a pretty conservative family, so I always thought I would go into journalism, not modeling. You know, perhaps working at a television station as an anchor.”
With her killer looks and marvelous curves in all the right places, it’s only natural that becoming a famous model was in the cards for her. The universe wouldn’t have allowed beauty like that to go unnoticed in any reality. “When I was 19, I was still in school and working as a nanny,” she recalls. “I was going to class during the day, and then taking care of these kids. I was making my own money but it wasn’t very much. Then one day, I was out at a restaurant and a modeling scout from Women Management Paris spotted me and asked me if I’d like to to try modeling.”
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