Heloísa Pinheiro
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Heloísa Pinheiro (née Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, now known as Helô Pinheiro, born 1945) The real-life "Girl from Ipanema", a carioca whose strolls through the fashionable Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil inspired the lyrics to the song "Girl from Ipanema" (originally titled, in Portuguese, "A Garota de Ipanema"), the music of which was originally written for a musical comedy.
Pinheiro opened a clothing boutique in 2001 with the name "Garota de Ipanema" (Girl from Ipanema). One of the products she sold was a t-shirt printed with the music and lyrics of the song. The heirs to co-writers Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes objected to this and sued, but eventually the courts found in her favor and she has since expanded to a chain of boutiques in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.[1]
Helô Pinheiro became a Brazilian Playboy Playmate in 1987 and once again in 2003, when she did a pictorial along with her daughter, Ticiane Pinheiro.[2]
She also appeared in the second season of The Amazing Race, for the Beach portion of the first Detour clue, and on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12 for a modelling challenge in Brazil.
