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Sylvie van der Vaart - Stephan Pick Photoshoot, 2010 (UHQ)

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Sylvie van der Vaart - Stephan Pick Photoshoot, 2010 (UHQ)

Sylvie van der Vaart - Stephan Pick Photoshoot, 2010
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Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart (née Meis; born 13 April 1978) is a Dutch television personality and model, and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart.

Aged 18, van der Vaart decided that she wanted to be a model and was cast for various shoots by casting agencies. After becoming interested in television, she gained popularity through assignments at FoxKids and music station TMF. She hosts several events at TMF, such as presenting the annual TMF-awards, and conducting interviews with international artists such as Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. In addition, she features in video clips and the Dutch TV-series Costa. In collaboration with the firm of JPC, she also introduced the Pure by Sylvie jewelery line to the Dutch market. Thereafter, she hosted the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year award ceremony.

After being elected the Netherlands' Sexiest Female in 2003, she started a relationship with then-AFC Ajax footballer Rafael van der Vaart. Due in part to the fame from their individual careers, they soon become the Netherlands' most famous "soccer couple". Their fame grew after their marriage on 10 June 2005 and live coverage of the wedding on SBS, with the broadcast gaining high ratings in the Netherlands; van der Vaart took Rafael's last name.

In September 2004, an Ajax Eredivisie league match against ADO Den Haag was temporarily halted by match officials due to incessant anti-semitic chants by opposition fans directed at van der Vaart.

Van der Vaart and her husband moved to Germany when he left Ajax to play for Bundesliga football club Hamburger SV. After her husband's 2008 transfer to Real Madrid, the van der Vaarts moved to Spain. The couple's first child, Damián Rafael, was born on 28 May 2006. On 16 June 2009, she announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and had undergone surgery in May 2009. She has finished post-op chemotherapy and is cancer free.

Since 2008, she has been a judge on Das Supertalent, the German version of Simon Cowell'sGot Talent series.

She is currently taking part in the third season of the German equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, called Let's Dance.

On 17 April 2010, van der Vaart replaced the usual Deutschland sucht den Superstar judge Nina Eichinger for the final of the 7th season, after the latter was stuck in Los Angeles following flight restrictions as a result of the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull. (wiki)