Ines Rivero - Swimsuit Photoshoot

Born: 1976
Birthplace: Cordoba, Argentina
Best known as: Argentinian "angel" for Victoria's Secret

Maria Ines Rivero is an Argentinian model. She was born on 7 June 1976 in Cordoba, Argentina, and she resides now in New York City, at last information. Rivero's mother thought that she lacked the grace of a lady, and therefore enrolled her into a "ladies school". She made her modeling debut at the age of 14, when she worked in a local fashion show. An agent discovered the now mature and more ladylike stunner at age 16 in her hometown, and one year later, she got another break when she won the preliminary of the Elite Look of the Year contest in Argentina.

Rivero's face has appeared on the cover of magazines such as ELLE, Glamour and Vogue, and she has been one of the select group of Victoria's Secret models known as the 'Angels'.

Away from modeling, Ines has also sung a music album entitled Hasta Siempre which contains a hit single about the Argentinian-born revolutionary Che Guevara. She also had a brief cameo in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada.

She was previously married to French artist Alais Basseville, but that ended in divorce in 1998, and she is now married to Miami-based Cuban financier Jorge Mora.