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Candice Swanepoel

South African model (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Candice Susan Swanepoel is a South African model. She is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. She became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010. In 2016, she was listed 8th on the Forbes top-earning models list.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Candice Swanepoel” is south African model (born 1988). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Candice, Swanepoel and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Candice, Swanepoel and South is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Candice Swanepoel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.