Vs Fashion Show 2017 Fantasy Bra

Lais Ribeiro Will Wear This Yr's $ii Million Fantasy Bra at the Victoria's Hugger-mugger Fashion Show

Brazilian-built-in model Lais Ribeiro is "very emotional" that she will be wearing the 600-carat bra at the 2017 Victoria'southward Underground mode show in Shanghai, China.

The Victoria'southward Hole-and-corner models never forget earning their wings. But there is one accolade that tops even Angel condition: getting to article of clothing the coveted fantasy bra on the Victoria'south Undercover Style show track. And this year that honor goes to Brazilian-born bombshell and VS runway vet, Lais Ribeiro.

Shanghai will mark the 27-year-old model's sixth Victoria'due south Secret Way testify, and her first time wearing the Fantasy Bra.

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"I never cried so much in my unabridged life — and I have a infant," Ribeiro said of her initial reaction (which you can watch in the sectional clip above!) when she found out she would be wearing the $2 million Champagne Nights Fantasy bra. "It was so emotional. I couldn't believe it when they told me. It was so beautiful."

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Victoria's Secret Model Lais Ribeiro models the 2017 Fantasy Bra

Weighing more than 600 carats, this year's blinged-out bra is designed exclusively for Victoria's Hush-hush past jeweler Mouawad and is handset with diamonds, xanthous sapphires, and blue topaz in 18 karat gold on a custom Victoria'southward Undercover Dream Angels Demi Bra. The ornate blueprint took almost 350 hours to create and is embellished with well-nigh half-dozen,000 precious gemstones.

"Who doesn't dream about wearing the Fantasy Bra — I mean information technology'southward an laurels to be among Gisele [Bündchen], Candice [Swanepoel], Adriana [Lima], and all the big top models who take worn it in the past," Ribeiro gushed. "I get too emotional talking about this. I accept to piece of work on that."

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During her fitting, the model made sure to FaceTime her family, who was just as emotional equally she was.

"I asked my brother to put everybody on the phone: my grandma, grandad, my mom, uncles, everybody in the room and and so I told them and it was simply me crying on the side and my unabridged family on the other side crying," she said. "They're jumping; my sister dropped the phone. It was amazing."

Ribeiro said that the showtime time she tried the bra on information technology was a "perfect" fit and no alterations needed to exist made.

"It felt and so astonishing. I think a lot of emotions that I had within of me over the 7 years all came out at once," she shared. "I was just so happy and so proud and so thankful to wear the bra. I couldn't believe. I swear to God three days later I was like pinching myself literally like, 'This is non happening.' I can't believe. I kept asking my swain, asking my shut friends, 'Is this for existent, seriously?' I couldn't believe information technology."

While she may be wearing the almost expensive slice of lingerie in this year'south testify, Ribeiro maintains that her showtime VS way show volition always be the most nerve-wracking.

"Literally, I don't know how my legs kept going" she shared. "It somehow didn't look similar I was nervous, merely you know that feeling when you workout and the inside of you lot shakes, that's how I felt. My legs were just shaking and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, how am I going to control this.' And my wings were then large!"

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Ribeiro might exist i of the summit lingerie models in the world, merely she said growing up that Victoria's Secret wasn't on her radar.

"I'm from a very tiny city in Brazil and I knew Gisele and Adriana and Alessandra, just I wasn't into the style world until I was in information technology," she said. "I was supposed to exist a nurse, only when I was introduced to modeling information technology inverse. I was like, 'I want to be a Victoria'due south Hugger-mugger model,' Who doesn't wanna exist? And now I'thou just amazed to be one of them."

The catwalker adds that her Angel idol and soundboard in the business is Adriana Lima.

"She is my buddy. Nosotros are friends and she is open to new girls. She is always helping and such an instance and inspiration to all the young girls," Ribeiro shared. "She was just open to me and we became friends. I was very happy for that."

This year the prove will be in Shanghai, Cathay at the Mercedes Benz Loonshit, which holds more people than any of the previous Victoria'south Underground Fashion testify venues. The rail will also feature the debut of the Victoria'south Secret x Balmain collaboration. Just even with all those eyes, Ribeiro keeps her cool.

"My family is very religious so I try to pray and to concentrate and focus and calm myself down — that'southward all I do before the evidence," she said. "Oh, and did I mention I'm wearing the Victoria's Secret Fantasy Bra? You're going to dear it. Information technology's the well-nigh amazing thing I've ever seen."

Catch Lais on the rail wearing the 2017 Champagne Nights Fantasy Bra at this year's Victoria'southward Underground Fashion Evidence, ambulation November 28 at 10/9c on CBS.