A jet-setting lifestyle, cryptic quotes, and cheating rumors… was
there more to Adriana Lima and Marko Jarić's split than meets the eye?
"There will be emotions. Good ones. Intense ones."
Adriana Lima and Marko Jarić may simply have been too different to make it work
for the long haul. Jarić confessed the year after they tied the knot that they
didn't totally see eye to eye on a few things, but claimed at the time
it was actually a good thing for their relationship. He told Hello! Canada:
"We're opposite in some things, but that's good. There's a sparkle in
our marriage. We match unbelievably well and we have a great adventure together."
Jarić didn't elaborate about what those differences were,
though Lima has touched on how she'd personally changed since becoming a
mom. She told Vogue India in November 2021 that she'd learned how important
it is for her to set a good example to her children the older they got, saying:
"I try to teach them to love the skin they're in and eat healthily for their
bodies and to also practise positive mental wellness through meditation."
"Now ask me how many cups of coffee I have a day”
Notably, Lima and Jarić also seemed pretty different on their social media accounts.
Jarić appeared more comfortable sharing a look at his down-to-earth time with his kids across
his Instagram grid, while Lima appears to keep her family time a little more
private. Her page is instead littered with gorgeous glimpses at her glamorous life.
Adriana Lima has hinted that absence may have played a part in her divorce from Marko Jarić,
having posted a series of cryptic quotes around the
time she announced her split. Two months after going public with the breakup news,
Lima shared one of her potentially most telling quotes on Instagram, which read:
"If you're absent during my struggle don't expect to be present during my success."
Lima herself appeared to be very busy jet-setting around that time, which may have made maintaining
a relationship and spending time at the couple's Beverly Hills home more difficult. She was
apparently traveling a lot around the time of her split, with trips to France, New York,
and Turkey. Lima also made it clear that work was, understandably, very important to her.
Packed schedules certainly wouldn't be a surprising factor in Lima and Jarić's split,
as that's exactly what a source claimed got in the way of the former's subsequent
relationship with NFL star Julian Edelman. They split in March 2017, with an Entertainment
Tonight tipster suggesting things didn't work because they were just too busy.
Adriana Lima has been pretty vocal about how important her values and morals are to her,
even remaining a virgin until she married Marko Jarić at 27 years old. Lima has also touched on
how important her unwavering outlook on life is to CNBC in 2017, explaining that she learned to
have strong morals in the spotlight because so many people look up to her. She elaborated —
"People are watching you and you become their inspiration. I really just want to put a positive
message and try to show the real values, the most important values in life out there."
"And it's a challenge. I love a challenge."
Was that fearless attitude coming into play when Adriana Lima began hinting that
there might be trouble in paradise before she and Marko Jarić officially confirmed
their breakup? She certainly gave us a lot of cryptic clues in the form of positive
affirmations. The former Victoria's Secret model's Instagram account was littered with
inspirational quotes around the time of her split, with one in particular
potentially hinting at how she felt about Marko towards the end of her marriage.
The month prior to the divorce announcement,
she shared two telling quotes. One, from novelist Paulo Coelho, read,
"How people treat you is a direct reflection on how they feel about themselves." Another stated,
"You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life." Another hint
about what really went down may have come in July 2014, when Lima posted a quote that read,
"The real power of a man is the size of the smile of the woman sitting next to him."
Lima also appeared to be spending more time with her girlfriends around the time of her split,
and even shared a stunning photo to Instagram of herself and Candice Swanepoel kissing their
fellow Victoria's Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes' baby bump in early May 2014.
Could a need for independence have been behind Adriana Lima and Marko Jarić's split? In May 2017,
Lima hit the headlines when she made it clear how much she valued herself by announcing she
was married... to herself. The revelation came via Instagram when the former Victoria's Secret
Angel addressed speculation about why she was sporting a ring on that one special finger.
"WHATS UP WITH THE RING? ITS SYMBOLIC. I AM COMMITTED TO
MYSELF AND MY OWN HAPPINESS I AM MARRIED WITH ME."
When ET asked the runway stomper about the post a few months later, she said,
"If you're incapable of loving your own self,
how can you love anyone else in your life, if you don't know how to embrace you?"
"And you as a person, you will change completely. You're going to become a woman. A mature woman."
Lima didn't exactly hide the fact that maybe she hadn't had the easiest time
when it came to love. Two months after announcing she was her own partner,
the Daily Mail shared some photos of Lima at the airport with some interesting
flight reading. The star's choice? The self-help book "Invasion Of Love — The
Path" by Metin Hara. As People reported, Hara and Lima were an item until 2019.
Where there's a celeb split, there are very often celeb cheating rumors — and that was no different
when Lima and Jarić called it quits. Though neither has confirmed there was infidelity in
their five years of marriage, the gossip mill has certainly churned up some stories. At least one
website alleged that Jarić had supposedly cheated, although that was never officially proven.
Plenty speculated on Twitter that there may have been some infidelity,
though. One person tweeted amid all the unproven speculation:
"oh wow, Marco Jarić is divorcing Adriana Lima after [he] allegedly cheated on her,
WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS MANNNNNNN."
Whatever really happened here, though, it seems like it was for the best. While Jarić has remained
a little more tight-lipped on his dating life, we know Lima has moved on and found happiness
with boyfriend Andre Lemmers. In April 2022, the star revealed via TikTok that they are expecting
a baby boy, which came after she called him her "forever twin soul mate" for Valentine's Day.