Doutzen Kroes (born January 23, 1985) is a Dutch model and currently one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. She started out her career in 2005, became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2008 and is currently considered one of the world's top earning supermodels.
In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $1.5 million in the previous twelve months, Forbes named Kroes fourteenth in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. In April 2008, she was in fifth position, with an estimated income of $6 million. In May 2009 and May 2010 Forbes named Kroes fifth again in the list of the World's 15 Top- Earning Supermodels.
Kroes is in the official Frisian provincial campaign for the Frisian language, her mother tongue.
Doutzen Kroes received the Lifetime Achievement Award, part of the Dutch Model Awards, in
Amsterdam on May 12, 2009. The jury praised her achievements at her age.[citation needed]
At the end of August 2008, Victoria's Secret confirmed to People magazine that Kroes was to be the newest Victoria's Secret Angel. Her first campaign as the brand's newest Angel is "Supermodel Obsession". In September 2009, she signed to be the new face for Swiss cashmere label Repeat for two years.
There is a wax figure of Kroes in the Amsterdam branch of Madame Tussaud's wax museum.
As of November 2009, she writes a monthly column about her life for the Dutch edition of 'Marie Claire.'
Currently, she is signed by DNA Model Management.
In February 2010, Kroes returned to the catwalk during fashion week for Prada with fellow Angels Alessandra Ambrosio and Miranda Kerr. Prada was praised by former editor-in-chief of Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire magazines, Bonnie Fuller in her blog for using a curvy model such as Kroes for the fashion show.