CURITIBA, BRAZIL

Isabeli Fontana says she can't wait to become a mother. And she won't have to wait very long. The 19-year-old is due to deliver a baby boy early next month, and she and her fiancé, fellow Brazilian model Alvaro Jacomossi, already have a name picked out: Zion Fontana Jacomossi. "We wanted to give him a strong name, and Zion means 'God' or 'blessed,'" she says.

Though Fontana's still just a teen, she is a seasoned pro in modeling. She was 12 when she told her mother she wanted to be a model; one year later she was a finalist in an Elite Model Look Contest in São Paulo.

Fontana is the youngest model ever to appear in the Victoria's Secret catalog, has been a fixture in the Paris and Milan collection runway shows for five years and has been in ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren and Valentino.

Fontana, who lives in New York but makes frequent trips back to Brazil, is fluent in Portuguese, English and Italian. This marks her second appearance in the Swimsuit Issue.

-- RICHARD DEITSCH