Lily Aldridge is a known model coming from the United States.
One of her biggest accomplishments is the fact that she is one of the Victoria Secret’s Angel and is also a swimwear model for a famous magazine called Sports Illustrated.
She appeared on a cover of its 50th-anniversary issue with famous women like Nina Agdal and Chrissy Teigen in 2015.
Early years
Lily was born on November 15th in 1985 by a name Lily Maud Aldridge in a Hospital in Santa Monica in California.
She was born in the Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Her family is very old fashioned.
Her father is an artist called Alan Aldridge and he is from the United Kingdom and her mother is Laura Lyons, a Playboy Playmate.
She has two siblings. They are both her half-siblings. Lily has a half-sister named Saffron Aldridge and she was a cover face of Ralph Lauren, an American fashion brand. It was back in the ’90s.
Lily also has a half-brother named Miles Aldridge with whom she is also close.
He is also connected to fashion in a way, he is a fashion photographer. Miles is married to a model named Kristen McMenamy, but they divorced in 2013, after 16 years of marriage.
She also has a biological sister named Ruby Aldridge. She was a face for Marc Jacobs, also a known luxury brand and one of the most sold brands worldwide.
Lily went to high school in London, although she was born in the United States.
She also went to the Notre Dame High school located in Sherman Oaks in California, near where she lived.
Early years
Lily got into modeling after she got a job as a model for a known fashion brand, Abercrombie & Fitch. She was only 16 when she started modeling for them so it was a big change in her life and e everyday schedule.
After that, she modeled for various brands which were very lucrative for her. Some of the more famous ones are Tommy Hilfiger, Bobbi Brown, Levi’s, Smashbox Cosmetics and so on.
In 2011 she worked with Rag & Bone and their spring campaign. They are a clothing company from New York which managed to open successful stores all over the world and which ships worldwide by purchasing online.
In 2014, she was the main cover face for XOXOs clothing campaign and for Proactivs skincare products.
She was also a cover face for an online shop called Shopbop and their Born Free Africa campaign. She did it along with a famous model, Chanel Iman. It was a big privilege for her that she has been picked out for it.
She was only 17 years old when she appeared on a cover of a Vogue Spain magazine in August of 2003. It was a great accomplishment for her to be featured in Vogue but her family was scared that it was too soon.
Since then she also appeared in a lot of different magazines, specifically on their cover.
Some of those magazines are Vogue Mexico, Korean, Brazilian and Vietnamese Elle magazine, for the French Glamour magazine, S Moda, Russian Allure and one online magazine too, called The Edit.
She was also a part of some editorials for a few magazines. Some of those magazines are Vogue for the USA, France, Germany, UK, Spain and Mexico, Elle for Australia, Korea, and the US.
She was also in Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Marie Claire and so on.
Since the year 2004, she has been a cover face of a Velvet Tees company.
Her first show was named Ready to wear and it was the collection of Autumn / Winter 2007.
In 2013 she collaborated with the brand on her own line called Lily Aldridge for Velvet that she released so her fans can buy it. It was also a lucrative business move for her.
In 2009 she made one of her biggest accomplishments in her career.
She walked the Victorias Secret Fashion Show for the first time ever.
A year after, in 2010, she became one of the Victorias Secret Angels which made it possible for her to walk another Runway show for them.
In this show, she had the wings that are a statement for Victoria Secrets Angels. She walked their runway all the years from 2009 up until 2017.
Becoming the Victoria Secret Angel was her dream come true and she stated that it is always an honor for her to wear their lingerie.
In November of 2015, Victoria Secret stated that the most important piece of that year’s runway, the Fireworks Fantasy Bra, was going to be worn by Lily herself.
This was a sign that the company felt the same about Lily and that they chosen her to be their brightest star.
This bra was created by Mouawad and it’s worth is estimated for about 2 million dollars. This show was in December of that year in New York City.
In January of 2011, she also appeared on a cover of British GQ magazine along with other beautiful women like Candice Swanepoel, Lindsay Ellingson, and Erin Heatherton.
The same month she was in the V Magazine along with her Victorias Secret friends and angels Erin and Candice, that were both with her on the GQ cover.
In October of 2014, she was also featured on the Vogue for the United Kingdom. She was with other Victoria’s Secret models like Elsa Hosk, Candice Swanepoel, Adriana Lima and also Lais Ribeiro.
Lily often appeared in music videos for other celebrities.
In 2000 she was in a music video for a song called “Break Stuff” by Limp Bizkit that featured rap legends like Dr. Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg.
She was also in a music video of a mega-popular pop star Taylor Swift and her song “Bad Blood” in 2015.
The music video also featured an actress Jessica Alba, a model Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevinge, Gigi Hadid, Zendaya and many more. In this music video, she had the role of an assassin “Frostbyte”.
She was also in two videos of a rock band called Kings of Leon. It was for their songs Temple and Use Somebody”.
In her video for Vogue, she has described the daily routine of most models and gave an insight into it. She revealed that it is not easy to keep the weight and manage a busy schedule.
She says that she does yoga, pilates, and boxing every day. She even has some ballet lessons.
Her meals are small but healthy. She has a smoothie for breakfast and later mostly eats fish and veggies.
She can eat almonds and nuts instead of sweets.
Personal life
Lily’s ancestors came to America from. Europe so she has English, Irish, and Italian roots.
We dont know that much of her personal life but we know that she was involved in two relationships.
Lily was in a relationship with an American musician named Michael Einziger for a period of two years (2004 to 2006). He was almost ten years older than her.
We know that she got engaged to frontmen of Kings of Leon, Caleb Followill in September of 2010.
They got married in May of 2011 on the San Ysidro Ranch located in Montecito in California, United States.
In 2012 Lily gave birth to her first daughter in Nashville in Tennessee. She named her Dixie Pearl.
In August of 2018 Lily stated that she and Caleb are expecting their second child. In January of 2019, she gave birth to her son, which she called Winston Roy.
She is very active on her Instagram account where she has more than 5 million followers. She often posts pictures of her family there.
She also posts on her Twitter account, but there she has a bit less than a million followers.
She currently lives with her family in Nashville.
She is Christian by religion.
Lily takes good care of her body and eats very healthy. She also trains and has a personal trainer Michael Gebland.
She is a big fan of see food so she often orders fish and crabs.
She has her favorite fashion designer. It is Stella McCartney and she likes to wear her clothes privately too.
Lily likes to play soccer so she looks forward to doing that with her kids.
Quick summary
Full name: Lily Maud Aldridge
Date of birth: November 15, 1985
Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, United States
Age: 34
Profession: model, cover the face
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 54 kgs
Net Worth: