posing for Playboy together with her youngest daughter,
24-year-old Ticiane. (February 2003)
Inspired the famous Bossa Nova song as a teenager in 1962.
Daughter of Juarez Paes Pinto and Eneida de Menezes.
Has a brother named Roberto.
Her husband Fernando is a engineer.
Mother, with Fernando, of three girls named Christiane, Georgiane and Ticiane Pinheiro and one boy named Fernando Júnior.
Of the estimated 150 renditions of the song, Helô's personal favorite is the recording by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Antonio Carlos Jobim on guitar with English lyrics by Norman Gimbel.
She is the woman who, at age 17 in 1962, inspired Brazilian songwriters Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes to write "The Girl From Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema), one of the most covered songs of all time in popular music.