Adriana Lima left fans speechless with her latest appearance as she was praised for looking better than ever.
The 45-year-old, who is one of the most influential Victoria’s Secret Angels of all time, stepped out at Madrid Fashion Week on Friday.
The brunette beauty attended the closing party at Reina Sofía Museum in a black backless dress.
She flaunted her sculpted arms and accentuated her cheekbones by wearing her hair in a slicked-back ponytail.
And many fans believed the Brazilian model, who was a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 2000 to 2018, had transformed back into her old self.
Back in 2023, Lima had raised eyebrows due to the noticeable changes to her face over a short period of time.
At the Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes premiere in Los Angeles, California, in November of that year, she was branded as being unrecognizable.
Social media was set ablaze with speculation before Lima publicly hit out at the scrutiny.
Adriana Lima left fans speechless with her latest appearance as she was praised for looking better than ever
Back in 2023, Lima had raised eyebrows due to the noticeable changes to her face (left) but has recently transformed (right)
‘This is the face of a tired mom of one teenage girl, two pre-teens, one active boy, a one-year-old learning to walk, and three dogs…
‘Thanks for your concern,’ she captioned a makeup-free selfie at the time.
But now her visage is in the spotlight once again as longtime fans of Lima rushed to social media to heap on the praise.
‘People will kick you at your lowest and call it critique.
‘Former Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima took all the postpartum mockery, went dark for a year, and trained seven days a week like an absolute machine.
‘Discipline is the only clapback that matters,’ one wrote.
Another added: ‘Back to the Victoria’s Secret era.’
Others were adamant that it was a ‘completely different person,’ as someone else insisted: ‘This isn’t Adriana Lima!’
Back in 2017 (pictured), Lima revealed that she wanted ‘people to look’ at her ‘beyond’ her ‘face/body’
The Daily Mail has since spoken to experts about Lima’s most recent transformation.
Dr Frank Agullo, a board-certified plastic surgeon in El Paso, Texas, said: ‘I think everybody is in agreement that Adriana Lima looks a lot more like she did in her Victoria’s Secret years.’
He pointed out her return to embracing ‘high, defined cheekbones, the visible hollow below them, a sharp jawline, and natural lips that are not overdone.’
But Dr Agullo, who has not treated the star, does not believe Lima’s recent beauty transformation is surgical.
Instead, he suggested the main difference is due to weight loss as well as discussing the possibility of Lima having had face filler dissolved and using ‘radiofrequency for skin tightening.’
‘From the photos, it doesn’t look like a face that has had surgery, but a face that has lost the excessive volume and allowed the deeper structures to show through,’ he concluded.
Dr Masoud Saman, from New York City, agreed after analyzing the latest pictures from Madrid.
He told the Daily Mail: ‘Lighting and makeup play a role too but if I were to guess, I’d say she has had a lot of dermal filler dissolved but I see no evidence of facial surgery.’
The now 45-year-old (pictured in 2018) who is one of the most influential Victoria’s Secret Angels of all time
Additionally, in light of Lima’s transformation, Dr Riaz Agha, consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Harley Clinic Group, went one step further in suggesting how patients can achieve more facial definition for themselves.
He suggested dermal fillers ‘can restore volume and enhance contours, but adding volume is not the same as lifting sagging tissue.’
‘Where there’s significant sagging, facelift surgery can reposition underlying tissues and remove excess skin to improve jowls and definition around the jawline. It is not just a matter of pulling the skin tighter.
‘Fillers and surgery can sometimes complement each other, but they do not achieve the same result.’
Dr Agha added that expression lines can be tackled with Botox and recommended laser resurfacing or chemical peels for those tackling skin texture, fine lines and certain pigmentation changes.
‘The aim should be to help someone look refreshed while preserving their own features,’ he concluded.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Lima’s representative for comment.
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