Gisele Bundchen, Miranda Kerr, Adriana Lima become world's richest models (view pics)

New Delhi: Gisele Bundchen has been named as the highest-paid model earning around $42 million (£27 million) in the last year, according to Forbes. The 32-year-old, who is originally from Brazil, is the face of companies including H&M, Chanel and David Yurman. The business-savvy beauty has also made a bundle from her partnership with Brazilian footwear company Grendene and her cosmetics line, Sejaa.Former Victoria's Secret model, Miranda Kerr, came in second place with a mere $7 million.Adriana Lima, Victoria's Secret angel nabbed the third spot on the list with mere $6 million, mostly from her contract with the lingerie retailer. She's brand's highest-paid and most senior angel.Check out their hot pics!Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model and occasional film actress and producer. She is also the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find international success.In 1999, Vogue dubbed her "The Return of the Sexy Model", and she was credited with ending the "heroin chic" era of modeling. Bündchen was one of Victoria's Secret Angels from 2000 until mid-2007.Miranda Kerr, an Australian born, is the second highest paid model in the world after Gisele Bundchen. Kerr rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels.Kerr told readers of Australian Cosmopolitan that coconut oil was the key to her clear skin, shiny hair and trim figure.Married to famous Hollywood actor, Orlando Bloom, Kerr has one baby boy. She was named "Sexiest Woman Alive 2012" by Esquire UK. The third model on the list is Adriana Lima, a Brazilian model and actress who is best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, She was also the spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009.She is married to Serbian basketball player Marko Jarić, with whom she has two daughters.