Ana Beatriz Barros was born in Itabira, a tiny town in Brazil, on May 29, 1982.
Ana was raised in the cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro after her family moved there. The hazel-eyed statuesque beauty was discovered by the Director of Elite Model Management, while vacationing in Brazil.
It didn’t take much for him to see that she was absolute model material, and he encouraged her to enter the Elite Look of the Year contest. …