Isabeli Bergossi Fontana was born on July 4, 1983, in Curitiba, in the Paran� region of Brazil. She has two siblings; brothers Harrison and Heric. By the time she was merely 12 years of age, Isabeli told her mother that she wanted to become a model.In 1996, she was a finalist in an Elite Model Look Contest in S�o Paulo, and the following year, at the age of only 14, she traveled from her native Brazil to Milan, to start working as a model.
