After her December 2002 FHM hit newstands, the magazine was overwhelmed with correspondence and requests for more features on the latin beauty. An unprecendented 70% of that months reader mail was in relation to Vida.Worked as a loans officer before getting her modelling break in FHM.Is of Cuban ethnicity.She was introduced to the world in a 2002 FHM photo shoot and has since become one of the planet's most-lusted after women. Early last year she cracked the top 10 among the Internet's most searched for female celebrities joining the likes Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Carmen Electra and Oprah Winfrey.Fluently speaks Spanish and EnglishNamed #26 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)Named #21 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).