Alessandra Ambrosio is back on the BAZAAR Brazil cover, and she didn’t come alone.
The supermodel appears on the magazine’s May 2026 issue alongside her 17-year-old daughter, Anja Ambrosio. It’s their first cover together, and it’s a genuinely sweet one to land on. Alessandra has spent close to thirty years in fashion, including a long and celebrated run as one of the most recognizable Victoria’s Secret Angels. Seeing her back on this particular cover, thirteen years after her last appearance, feels well-earned.
BAZAAR Brazil announced the cover on Instagram earlier this week. The caption, originally in Portuguese, described Alessandra as someone who “knows what happens when she faces a camera.” Decades in front of one will do that. The magazine also noted she’s returning to the cover for the first time since 2013, and this time she has Anja alongside her.
But the cover itself is only part of the story. The more interesting part is Anja.
At 17, she’s growing up in one of the most recognizable households in fashion. Her mother built a career spanning runways from Milan to São Paulo and magazine covers around the world. Anja has been clear about her own direction, though: modeling isn’t it. Her interests run toward music, theater, and cinema instead.
BAZAAR Brazil’s caption was pretty direct. It noted that Anja “makes clear she has no intention of following a modeling career” and that her relationship with her image is entirely her own. That’s a pretty confident stance for a teenager. Especially one who could probably book a cover without much effort based on her last name alone.
That said, she’s not hiding from cameras entirely. She’s right there on the cover, after all. She just wants to define what that spotlight means on her own terms.
The feature inside covers a lot of ground. According to BAZAAR Brazil, the two talked about fashion, social media, and career choices. They also touched on what an image carries across generations. That’s the kind of question that doesn’t have a clean answer. Alessandra has been photographed thousands of times over three decades. Anja is just starting to figure out how she wants to be seen. Those two approaches don’t have to look the same.
For anyone who has followed Alessandra’s career, this return to BAZAAR feels well-timed. She first appeared on the cover back in 2013. A lot has changed since then. She’s a mother of two now and has kept modeling well into her 40s. She’s also stayed genuinely present on social media, in a way that feels authentic rather than managed. She’s not coasting on old covers. She’s adding new ones.
What makes this cover work as a story is the contrast between the two women in it. Mother and daughter, side by side, on completely different paths. Alessandra has built her identity around being in front of a camera. Anja is building hers around something else entirely.
There’s something refreshing about that. Fashion families don’t automatically produce fashion kids. Sometimes the daughter of a supermodel grows up and decides she’d rather write a song or perform a scene than walk a runway. Anja seems comfortable with that choice. And the fact that BAZAAR gave her the space to say it clearly, on a cover with her mother, is a nice touch.
The full feature is in BAZAAR Brazil’s May 2026 issue, available now.
