Candice Swanepoel is the most influential Instagram lingerie model earning £50,000 a post… here’s who else made the top 10
The Victoria's Secret stunner gave birth to their first child, a son called Anaca, just 15 months ago
VICTORIA’S Secret stunner Candice Swanepoel is the world’s most influential lingerie model.
The 29-year-old South African beauty can earn as much as £50,000 a post on Instagram thanks to her 11.8 million followers, according to new research by Bluebella.
That is four million more fans than Marks & Spencer muse Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 30, who has 7.6 million followers and is only fifth on the list.
Candice announced last month she is expecting her second child with fiancé Hermann Nicoli. She gave birth to their first child, a son called Anaca, just 15 months ago.
She has not scaled back her modelling following motherhood and shifts more lingerie than any other model.
Candice topped the lingerie list not just because she has the most followers but because her online posts have far more impact than her catwalk contemporaries.
While Rosie will typically get around 80,000 likes for a post, Candice's average number of likes is well over 300,000.
It gives her almost four times as much influence as Rosie and means women are far more likely to buy her recommendations.
Second place on the list is Alexis Ren, a 21-year-old model from California who has 11.7 million Instagram followers.
She has been signed up by Sports Illustrated as one of its swimsuit stars of 2018 and recently graced the cover of Maxim magazine.
Third place went to Ana Cheri, a 31-year-old American model with 11 million Instagram followers.
Abigail Ratchford, a 25-year-old model from Pennsylvania, who is now branching out into acting, came fourth with 8.2 million online fans.
Rosie was the highest rated Briton on the list in fifth place. She gave birth to her first son Jack in June and is engaged to the Hollywood action star Jason Statham, who, at 50, is 20 years her senior.
Rosie is best known for her Autograph underwear range with Marks & Spencer.
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The world's top 10 ‘Queens of Lingerie’ has been compiled by the international lingerie brand, , which looked at the stars with the most influence on social media.
Russian model Viki Odintcova, 24, came in sixth with 4.5 million fans, while Canadian Natalie Gauvreau, 33, polled seventh with 2.8 million followers.
Burlesque star Dita Von Teese, 45, was eighth with 2.1 million followers. She was the oldest model on the list.
Californian model Sofia Jamora was the youngest star on the list - she turns 21 in May and has 1.4 million followers.
The list was completed by British model Nyané Lebajoa, 23, who has 768,000 followers but exerts huge influence because she is also a respected fashion designer.
Bluebella chief executive Emily Bendell said: “In the past two years lingerie influencers have really blown up and are commanding huge fees for posts.
“Lingerie is a very specialist market but they are now starting to have millions of followers around the world.
"What is most important is not their number of followers but the level of engagement they get with each post. That shows their real influence and is the key element in driving sales."
Meanwhile, Candice and her model pal Doutzen Kroes worried fans after revealing painful looking sunburn on holiday in Brazil.
And, the underwear muse has been showing off her baby bump in a grey bikini.