Behati Prinsloo

Prinsloo in 2009, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com

Place of Birth: Grootfontein, South-West Africa (now Namibia)

Date of Birth: May 16, 1988

Ethnicity: Afrikaner [Dutch, Frisian, French Huguenot, German, distant Latvian, Finnish, and Kenyan, remote Portuguese, Norwegian, Belgian Flemish and Walloon, Swiss-French, Swiss-German, Danish, Swedish, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Malagasy, and other African, including Angolan]

Behati Prinsloo is a Namibian model. She has appeared in the music videos for “Rich Girls,” “Animals,” “Hands to Myself,” “Body Moves,” “Cold,” “Girls Like You,” “Wait,” “Lost,” and “Middle Ground.” She is 5′11″.

She is the daughter of Magda and Louis Francois “Boet” Prinsloo, a Christian minister. Her father was born in South-West Africa, now Namibia. Her mother was born in Cape Town. Her surname is Dutch. She is from an Afrikaner family. A picture of Behati’s mother can be seen here.

Behati is married to American singer, television personality, and actor Adam Levine, with whom she has three children. She has also been billed as Behati Prinsloo Levine.

Behati is a second cousin, three times removed, of prominent Afrikaner, Colonel Hendrik Prinsloo. She was also a half-third cousin, once removed, of South African president F. W. de Klerk. Behati’s paternal great-great-great-grandmother, Anna Sophia Erasmus, was also F. W.’s maternal great-great-grandmother.

Behati’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her tenth great-grandfather, Hendrik Prinsloo.

Behati’s paternal grandfather was Louis Francois Prinsloo (the son of Georg Diederick Prinsloo and Cornelia Maria Pretorius). Louis was born in Angola. Georg was born in Pretoria, Transvaal, the son of Michiel/Michael Wilhelm “Giel Prem” Prinsloo and Martha Catharina Jacoba du Preez. Behati’s great-grandmother Cornelia was born in Orange Free State, the daughter of Louis Frans Pretorius and Martha Sophia van Dyk.

Behati’s paternal grandmother was Isabella Jacoba van Tonder (the daughter of Jacobus Coenraad van Tonder and Isabella Jacoba Mostert). Jacobus was born in Brakfontein, Rustenburg, Transvaal, the son of Cornelis Jacobus Van Tonder and Elizabetha/Elizabeth Susanna Breytenbach. Behati’s great-grandmother Jacoba was born in Rustenburg, the daughter of Johannes Hendrik Mostert and Isabella Jacoba/Jakoba Smit/Smid.

Behati’s maternal grandfather was named Jacob Frederick Rossouw. Jacob was born in Ladismith, Western Cape, South Africa.

Behati’s maternal grandmother was named Albertha Steenkamp. Albertha was born in Calvinia, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Sources: Genealogy of Behati Prinsloo (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com

Genealogy of Behati’s paternal great-great-great-grandfather, George Diederick Petrus Prinsloo – https://www.wikitree.com

Genealogy of Behati’s paternal great-grandmother, Cornelia Maria Pretorius – https://www.wikitree.com