Jaque Faria

March, 2012

Carnival, the annual festival designed to bid farewell to bad times, provides the perfect spring escape. Consummating 46 days before Easter in Rio de Janeiro, Carnival draws millions of people from around the world to Brazil's sandy beaches and parade-lined streets, where curvy, sun-drenched beauties dance to the samba beat. Our current Brazilian beauty of choice is the woman at right— Jaque Faria, a model and for­mer contestant on Big Brother Brasil. But given the sultry ways of her country­wom...