Lima was identified while shopping at a neighborhood shopping center at the age of 13. At the age of 15, she entered and completed in front of the rest of the competition in Brazil's Ford Supermodel of the World Search. She thusly entered the 1996 Ford Supermodel of the World challenge and completed in second spot. Three years after the fact, she moved to New York City, and marked with Elite Model Management. Lima's displaying portfolio started to grow exponentially, showing up in various worldwide versions of Vogue and Marie Claire. With respect to design demonstrates, she has strolled the catwalks for huge name originators, for example Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren, Valentino, around others. Lima then turned into a Guess? young lady showing up on Guess?' Fall 2000 notice crusade. She additionally showed up in the book 'a second decade of Guess? Images.'
In 2001, Lima featured in Bmw short film, The Follow close by performing artists Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, and Forest Whitaker. The film was steered by Hong Kong film executive and globally famous auteur Wong Kar-Wai.
Lima pressed on to expand her passage, accomplishing more print work for Maybelline, bebe, Mossimo, Bcbg and gracing the spread and publications of additional high vogue magazines, for example Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Gq, to name a couple. Her April 2006 Gq front was the most elevated advertising issue of the year.her other outstanding works could be the Pirelli Calendar 2005 and the substance of Italy's huge cell bearer Telecom Italia Mobile, where she came to be reputed to be the "Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy."
