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LONDON: Brazilian beauty Gisele Bundchen has been crowned queen of the catwalk - as the world's highest paid model, reported British daily The Sun on Friday.
The sexy supermodel topped the wealth list for money earned over the past year in the rich list published by Forbes.
Gisele, 31, easily topped the chart, earning a whopping $45million thanks to fat contracts with the likes of Versace, Esprit and Pantene.
And her fortune is boosted by endorsing a string of products bearing her name.
The latino stunner, recently announced she is expecting a second child with husband American Football star quarterback Tom Brady.
Kate Moss was ranked second - after the US magazine calculated she earned $9.2million through lucrative deals with Topshop, Rimmel and Mango.
Rounding out the top three was Russian Natalia Vodianova after amassing $8.6million in the past 12 months.
The 30-year-old mother of three is the face of perfume campaigns for Calvin Klein and Guerlain and also designs her own clothing lines.
Fourth, fifth and sixth on the list of rich babes were Adriana Lima, Doutzen Kroes, and Alessandra Ambrosio.
The rest of the top ten was made up of Miranda Kerr, Lara Stone, Carolyn Murphy and Candice Swanepoel.
A long-time feature on the annual list had been Heidi Klum. However, Forbes decided that the German, who came in second spot last year with $20million, is now more businesswoman than model and ruled she no longer counts.