Swanepoel: "I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden."

Swanepoel: "I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast."

Swanepoel: "I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen."

Swanepoel: "It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret."

Swanepoel: "I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it."

Swanepoel: "I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet."

Swanepoel: "Most women find a man with good manners sexy."

Swanepoel: "At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'"

Swanepoel: "I get skinnier if I'm very busy."

Swanepoel: "If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad."

Swanepoel: "I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry."

Swanepoel: "My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated."

Swanepoel: "I have always been very comfortable in little clothing; its part of my job."