Behati Prinsloo Height: How Tall Is the Victoria's Secret Angel?

Behati Prinsloo stands 5 feet 9 inches, or 175 cm. The figure has been listed on her Storm Models London and IMG Models New York measurement cards since her 2003 discovery in Cape Town, and has not changed in more than two decades of working. For a Victoria's Secret Angel, the number sits in the middle of the cohort range, which is more useful context than the measurement itself.

This is a working brief on the height, the career it built, and where she fits inside the wider Angels group.

The 5'9" measurement and what it represents

Behati Prinsloo's height is 5'9" (175 cm). The industry-standard runway range for women begins around 5'9" and runs through 6'0", and a 5'9" model sits at the lower bound of that range without any handicap on castings. For Victoria's Secret specifically, the brand has historically cast Angels in a 5'8" to 6'1" band, with most working in the 5'10" to 6'0" centre. Prinsloo's 5'9" places her on the shorter side of the long-tenure Angels, which has never been a meaningful obstacle on her bookings.

Her broader publicly listed measurements have been 34-24-35 inches across the past decade, and the US dress size on her IMG card sits at a 4. Those numbers, like the height, have remained stable through three pregnancies, which is itself one of the reasons her Angel tenure ran as long as it did.

Sarah Doukas, Storm Models, and the 2003 Cape Town discovery

Prinsloo was born May 16, 1988 in Grootfontein, Namibia, and was scouted at sixteen on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town in 2003. The scout was working for Storm Models London, the agency Sarah Doukas had founded in 1987 and which had developed Kate Moss after the 1988 JFK Airport discovery, Cindy Crawford's American break, and a long line of British and international careers between them. Doukas brought Prinsloo into the Storm development board within weeks of the Cape Town scouting, and the early IMG Models New York representation followed soon after.

The Storm Models development pipeline is one of the cleaner case studies in long-tenure agency representation in modern modeling. Prinsloo has remained on the Storm London board for more than twenty years, with IMG Models handling the New York and Paris ends of her bookings. The continuity of agency representation is part of why her measurement card has stayed stable on the front-of-book listings without the agency churn that affects many of her cohort.

For the wider profile of her work, our Behati Prinsloo signature look profile covers the styling and campaign side of the same career.

The Victoria's Secret Angel decade, 2007 to 2018

Prinsloo first appeared in the Victoria's Secret PINK campaigns in 2007 at nineteen, walked her first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in November 2007 in Los Angeles, and was signed to the Angels contract in 2009. The Angels tier brings a multi-year exclusivity arrangement that has historically paid in the high six figures to low seven figures per year before campaign add-ons, with a one-off bonus for the Fantasy Bra wearer in any given year. Prinsloo did not wear a Fantasy Bra herself but anchored the brand's swim, sport, and PINK campaign cycles across the 2010s.

Her Angel tenure ran continuously from 2009 through the brand's 2018 pause, with the only meaningful interruption being the 2016 show, which she missed for the birth of her first daughter. The 2024 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show return in Brooklyn brought her back to the runway alongside Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, Taylor Hill, Jasmine Tookes, and the senior cohort.

For the wider Angels framework, our Victoria's Secret models and the new supermodel standard covers the brand's casting evolution since the 2018 hiatus.

Where 5'9" sits in the Angels cohort

The Victoria's Secret Angel height profile across the past two decades has clustered in a 5'8" to 6'1" range. The tallest long-tenure Angels have been Karolina Kurkova at 6'1", Karlie Kloss at 6'1", Adriana Lima at 5'10", Alessandra Ambrosio at 5'10", and Stella Maxwell at 5'10". The shortest in the long-tenure group sit at 5'8" to 5'9", which is where Prinsloo, Lily Aldridge, Taylor Hill, Elsa Hosk, Martha Hunt, and Romee Strijd land.

The cohort spread matters because it shows that Victoria's Secret has never operated on the strict 5'10"-minimum that the high-fashion runway end of the industry has historically required. The brand has consistently prioritised proportion, photographic presence, and on-camera personality over raw height, which is part of why several of its long-tenure Angels would have struggled on the Paris runway calendar but built decade-plus careers inside the VS system.

The current chapter

Prinsloo married Adam Levine, the lead singer of Maroon 5, in July 2014 in Los Cabos, Mexico. The couple have three children: Dusty Rose, born September 2016; Gio Grace, born February 2018; and a third child born early 2023. The household has been based in Los Angeles since the late 2010s.

Her current working calendar has been a mix of selective Victoria's Secret returns, Tommy Hilfiger and H&M campaigns, and the Velvet by Graham & Spencer line she has worked with on and off since 2015. The Storm-IMG representation continues. The measurement card still reads 5'9", 175 cm, 34-24-35, US 4.

For the wider career build, our Behati Prinsloo philanthropy profile covers her work with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and other Namibian and East African causes, and our how to become a model industry insider guide covers how the height-and-measurement standards used by Storm Models and IMG translate into entry-tier casting decisions for anyone trying to follow a similar path.