Complex sentence: In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look Contest when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from Southern Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling career.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look Contest when she was just 13. The following year she moved from Southern Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling career.