Jasmine Tookes (born February 1, 1991) is an American fashion model.
Early life
Tookes was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California.[3] She has a younger sister, who is 19 years her junior.[3] She did gymnastics for ten years and was also active in volleyball and softball before she became a model at about the age of 15.[3] Her mother is a celebrity fashion stylist.[3] Tookes was discovered at one of her mother's showroom appointments.[3]
She has described her ancestry as a mix of "African American, Brazilian, European, and West Indian".[3]
Career
Tookes in 2013
Tookes' first commercial ad campaigns were in 2010 for UGG Australia and Gap.[3] Before breaking out on the international scene, she booked a Spring 2011 DKNY campaign and a layout in Vogue Italia.[3] Models.com named Tookes as one of the top 10 new models in a September 27, 2011, fashion week post.[4] Tookes was selected by Style as its top new model in November 2011 based on her work for the Spring Fashion Shows.[5][6] She was one of eleven new models for the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2012.[7] The 2012 show was taped in November and broadcast on the CBS network on December 4.[8] The night before the airing of the fashion show, Tookes and fellow Victoria's Secret modelsBehati Prinsloo and Jacquelyn Jablonski guest starred on the December 3 "Ha'awe Make Loa" episode of CBS' Hawaii Five-0.[9] French Vogue named her as one of its 10 New faces from fall/winter 2012–2013 Fashion Week.[10]
Tookes has appeared in editorials for Italian, American, French, German, and Spanish Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Numéro, W, and V.[citation needed] her cover include Elle France February 2013, Vogue Espana March 2016 alongside her fellow Victoria's Secret Angels, Harper's Bazaar Vietnam July 2016 along with Elsa Hosk and Martha Hunt, Maxim Magazine February 2017, and also Elle USA May 2017.
In September 2020, Tookes announced her engagement to her boyfriend of four years, Juan David Borrero. He is the director of international markets of Snap Inc.[15] and the son of doctor Alfredo Borrero Vega, the former vice president of Ecuador.[16] They married on September 4, 2021, at the Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador.[17] On November 21, 2022, she announced on her Instagram account that they were expecting their first child.[18] Tookes gave birth to their daughter on February 23, 2023.[19]