Alessandra Ambrosio was born in Erechim, Brazil on April 11, 1981. Alessandra Ambrosio parents, who are of Italian and Polish descent, own a petrol station. Alessandra Ambrosio was just eight years old when she decided that Alessandra Ambrosio wanted to be a model, after seeing a picture of top covergirl Karen Mulder in a magazine: "I wanted to be like her", she recalls. She enrolled at a modelling class at the age of 12 and at the age of 14 she was one of 20 finalists for an elite modelling competition in Brazil.
