Star: Did Adriana Lima & Alessandra Ambrosio mean-girl Kendall & Gigi?

Here’s something I didn’t know: Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio are friends in real life. I figured that they were friendly in a professional sense, but I had no idea they were let’s-do-lunch girlfriends. According to Star Magazine, they are lunch girlfriends. And not only that, they like to loudly complain about the young whippersnappers coming up through the ranks. Whippersnappers like… Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid, arguably two of the most well-known of the younger models.

It’s a catwalk catfight! Seasoned supermodels Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio couldn’t stop trashing new beauties on the block Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid during a recent brunch in LA.

“Adriana and Alessandra were like high school mean girls,” reports a fellow diner who spotted the Victoria’s Secret vets at the Brentwood eatery Tavern on March 15. “They were dissing Kendall’s runway walk and laughing about how bland she was. They called Gigi ‘talentless’ and said both of them are only famous because they were on reality TV.”

Adriana, who feels like she has paid her dues as a model, hasn’t been much more diplomatic during interviews, sniping that while the 20-year-olds are pretty, “you have to have character [and] something that [outshines] everybody else.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

That Lima quote is from an appearance she did on Watch What Happens Live in December. She was asked specifically about Kendall and Gigi and she said, “I think that that in these days, the fashion industry has changed. Everything is not only just about beauty. In my opinion, those two girls are gorgeous. But you have to have character…You have to have something that shines and outstands from everybody else. I think they’re definitely different and charismatic and I think they’re going to be successful.” Which is actually a compliment – she’s saying that Kendall and Gigi have that x-factor needed to be real models. Now, is that how she really feels? I’ve long suspected that a lot of the models who came up pre-social media are rather upset by how easy it was for the Kendalls and Gigis of the world to get a leg up.

As for the Star story in total… yeah, I don’t think much of Kendall’s modeling skills either. I actually don’t think she has any kind of x-factor, and she’s just not a compelling model, in my opinion. But I like Gigi Hadid a lot. I think she’s beautiful and incredibly watchable. Gigi reminds me a lot of the supermodels in the 1980s.

Photos courtesy of WENN.