Letícia Birkheuer is a Brazilian fashion model of German descent

German Brazilian

A German Brazilian is a Brazilian person of ethnic German ancestry or origin...

. She was discovered while playing volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 in Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

, southern Brazil and on 2006 she was the 7th best paid Brazilian model. She is a Sport Club Internacional

Sport Club Internacional

Sport Club Internacional is a Brazilian football team and multi-sport club from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, founded on April 4, 1909, and are one of the only five clubs to have never been relegated, along with Santos, São Paulo, Flamengo and Cruzeiro. They play in red shirts, white shorts and...

 supporter. Until recently she lived in New York City

New York City

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, but has since moved back to Brazil to work as an actress in the soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Belíssima. Letícia has a sister called Michelle who is also a model.
In December 2010, Letícia Birkheuer was the cover of Brazilian Playboy

Playboy magazine (Brazilian issue)

The Brazilian issue of Playboy is a local franchise of Playboy magazine published in Brazil. The original edition of the magazine was created by Hugh Hefner in the 1950s in the United States.-History:...

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Stats & Facts

• Height: 5 ft 11 in (181 cm)
• Measurements: (EU) 86.5-61-89
• Eye color: blue
• Hair: Brown
• Shoe size: (US) 8 ; (EU) 39
• Nationality: Brazilian
• Ethnicity: Deutschbrasilianer

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