Jessica Gomes is one of Australia’s most successful models.Jessica was born in Australia, her father is Portugese and her mother is Chinese.
As a young girl Jessica was more interested in culture, creative arts and sport – then at thirteen she was cast on a popular television show called “Bush Patrol”. At seventeen she entered a local modelling contest and began to model professionally.
Although rarely in Australia now, Jessica’s credits here include Harpers Bazaar, Vogue, Follow, Yen and SummerWinter. She featured as one of 10 Australian supermodels on the cover of Madison and has done campaigns for Bonds, Westfields and Popstar. Jessica has walked at Australian Fashion Week for Zimmerman, Jayson Brunsdon, Wayne Cooper, Josh Goot, Alice McCall, Trelise Cooper among others, and has been a youth ambassador on the catwalk for David Jones Australia.
Jessica is now living in New York and is truly an international girl.
Her career in NY kick-started when she was chosen for the Victoria’s Secret campaign.
She has since been featured in spreads for top fashion magazines such as Teen Vogue, Vogue Girl, American Glamour, Italian GQ and Victoria’s Secret catalogue working with many of the industry’s most renowned photographers including Mario Sorrenti, Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh, Alexi Lubormirsky, Carter Smith, Nathaniel Goldberg, Michaelangelo di Battista, David la Chapelle, Norman Jean Roy and Pamela Hanson. She has walked for designers such as Jennifer Lopez, Baby Phat and Nanette Lapore.
In addition Jessica has starred in advertising campaigns for DKNY, Adidas, Bath & Body Works, Bloomingdales, Gap, Hush Puppies, Motorola, American Eagle, Old Navy and recently featured in Jay Z fashion campaigns alongside actress Joy Bryant.
She also signed with Estee Lauder as the face of P Diddy’s Unforgivable fragrance and appeared in a special edition book that comes with the CD of this album, Press Play.
Jessica appeared in the last two issues of Sports Illustrated, shooting first in Israel then in the Canary Islands and went on the Chuck Comedy Show in LA alongside fellow model Brooklyn Decker as a special guest of the magazine. She shot again for Sports Illustrated in Portugal making her the only Australian girl in the past 3 issues and will attend the launch party of the new issue in Las Vegas on 11th February.
Jessica appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, and was a guest on the Make Me a Supermodel show with Tyson Beckford in America, teaching the girls how to pose in swimwear and giving them advice about the modelling world.
Jessica’s exotic looks and gorgeous body have attracted the notice of companies in Asia.
In Korea she modeled for Hyundai then appeared in a sexy ad for LG’s Cyon Bikini phone. As part of the promotion campaign for this Jessica played baseball with the “LG Twins” baseball team in South Korea. This catapulted her to stardom in Korea.
She has featured in Korean Esquire, Harpers Bazaar and marie claire, and had her own show running on Korean television’s Onstyle channel called “My Name is Jessica Gomes”. The show was part of Jessica’s music video for Korean ballad singer Tei’s fifth album, Tei With a Kiss. Jessica is also The Face of Enprani Cosmetics in Korea and they have named a lipgloss in her honour called Gomes Pink.
Her latest venture in Korea is the release of a yoga video called Body Art.
After recently appearing in Vogue China as an up and coming Chinese model Jess was invited to present an award at the MTV Shanghai Awards – she wore Gucci.
American Esquire magazine recently named Jessica as one of the sexiest women and the next Supermodel and she was voted one of the top 10 hottest supermodels by US magazine Maxim.
In Australia you will soon see Jessica featured on the cover of Your Body magazine as well as in Madison magazine – a special surfing edition shot by Simon Upton.
Source:http://www.iamjessicagomes.com/
Photo: Maxim.com
