For her ethnicity, she is Afrikaner of Dutch Descent. Her brother is called Stephen and when she was 15 years, she got spotted by a model scout at Durban Flea market. She had appeared in many editorials like Mexican, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian, Australian, Russian, German, Spanish, British, Italian and American Vogue. She was on Chinese, Italian and British Elle and had been on the Korean and American Harper’s, Allure, W and Bazzar V.

Swanepoel had worked the runway of Guess, Diesel, Prabal Gurung, Versace, Blumarine, Michael Kros, Shiatzy Chen, Ralph Lauren, Rag & Bone, Tommy Hilfiger, Miu Miu, Givenchy, De La Renta, Oscar and Tom Ford. She had appeared in the lingerie commercials and she featured in the SWIM catalog of 2010 together with Lindsay Ellingson, Erin Heatherton, Behati Prinsloo and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

In the year 2010, Swanepoel was named one of the Victoria’s Secret Angel. Swanepoel had modeled for the swimwear of Kardashians in 2010. Swanepoel was the one to open officially a retail store in Canada for a swim catalogue in Edmonton in West Edmonton Mall.

In the year 2013, she was named to be on a cover model of a coveted Swim Catalogue of Victoria’s Secret. Swanepoel had been chosen to wear a Fantasy Bra in the year 2013 for Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The bra was worth 10 million dollars and it was called Royal Fantasy Bra and it was designed by Mouawad. The matching bra and belt featured at least 4,200 precious gems and it included diamond, yellow sapphire, rubies and other precious gems with 18 carat gold and 52-carat ruby on the center. Royal Fantasy Bra is most expensive Fantasy Bra from the time of Sexy Splendor Fantasy Bra of 2005 worn by Gisele Bundchen.

For her popularity, Candice Swanepoel got voted at 61 number in 2010, at no 62 in 2011, at no 75, in 2013 and at no 36 in the year 2015 in the yearly 100 Sexiest Women in The World pool of FHM and at no 1 in the year 2014’s Hot 100 List of Maxim.

Candice Swanepoel speaks Portuguese, English and Afrikaans. She learnt Portuguese from her boyfriend Hermann Nicoli who is a male model from Brazil. They have dated since she was 17 years old and they met in Paris. They are planning to be married soon since they are already engaged. She became pregnant for her future husband and gave birth to a baby boy named Anaca. Her net worth is 10 million dollars.