Forbes highest paid models: Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid & Ashley Graham

Bagging $22 million a year, Kendall Jenner is the highest paid model of 2017 for the first time in 15 years.

Besides walking the ramp for some of the top brands and being an ambassador for Est?e Lauder and La Perla, she is also best known for her reality show 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians'.

Jenner had breakout seasons in 2014 and 2015, walking the runways for high fashion designers during the New York, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks

Earning $17.7 million a year, the Brazilian model has been on the front cover of more than 1,200 magazines and was the highest paid actress from 2002 to 2016. She is at 2nd spot on the list of 'The World's Highest-Paid Models 2017'.

Bundchen has also been successful in her acting career, playing a supporting role in Taxi (2004), for which she was nominated at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Breakout Performance, and for Choice Movie Bad Guy.

Bundchen had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and from 2010 to 2011, she was the executive producer of an educational environmental cartoon, Gisele & the Green Team.

Bundchen is married to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

The famous author and host Chrissy Teigen bags $13.3 million is Forbes no. 3, all thanks to her cookbook and campaigns for the hair care company Tresemme and cosmetic brand BECCA.

She made her debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2010 and, alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge, appeared on the cover in 2014.

Teigen is married to singer John Legend and is now expecting their second child.

The face of Sportmax and Marc Jacobs fragrance, Adriana Lima, is at no. 4 in the Forbes list of 'The World's Highest-Paid Models 2017' bagging $10.5 million.

She is the longest-running Angel in Victoria's Secret history.

At no. 5, Gigi Hadid made $9.5m this year thanks to several catwalk appearances at New York, Milan and Paris fashion weeks for Missoni, Balmain, Isabel Marant and Moschino.

The 22-year-old also launched her own make-up collection with Maybelline and collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger and Stuart Weitzman on fashion and shoe lines.

She was signed to IMG Models in 2013. In November 2014, Hadid made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models.com. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council.

At 10th spot, Ashley Graham became the first plus-size woman to make the annual Forbes list of top-earning models, ranked in 10th place with an estimated income of $5.5 million.

Graham has spoken at high schools about body image and body acceptance. She has participated in humanitarian missions in South Africa with the Themba Foundation. Graham is a proponent of the Health of Every Size movement.

She has appeared on the cover of fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, and Elle.