Kelly Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior (born 7 December 1988) is a Brazilian model,

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and public relations professional.

Life and career

Kelly Piquet was born in Homburg, Germany. She is the daughter of

Nelson Piquet Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (, born 17 August 1952) is a Brazilian retired racing driver and businessman. Since his retirement, Piquet, a three-time World Champion, has been ranked among the greatest Formula One (F1) drivers in various motorspo ...

, Brazilian racing driver and three-time

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, and Sylvia Tamsma, a Dutch model. She spent most of her childhood living in the South of France. At the age of 12, she moved to Brazil where she lived until she was 15 years old. After that Piquet returned to France, and lived there for another year before moving to England to study at a boarding school. At the age of 17, she returned to Brazil to attend her senior year of

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. Piquet attended

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in New York, majoring in

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with an emphasis on political science and economics. During college, she took an internship in fashion and decided to continue working in the area. She worked at ''Vogue Latinoamerica'',

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, KCD PR agency, in addition to being a columnist for ''Marie Claire'' magazine. As a model, Piquet posed for PatBO and Lucas Boccalão, in addition she has walked the catwalk in some fashion shows. In April 2015, Piquet became responsible for

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social media coverage.

Personal life

In January 2017, Piquet began dating the Russian

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driver Daniil Kvyat. She had a daughter with Kvyat, born in July 2019. In December of the same year the relationship came to an end. She has been publicly dating Dutch two time Formula One World Champion

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since January 2021.

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