Gisele Bundchen is a Brazilian supermodel. Her works, efforts and talent have made her one of the highest paid models in the world. In 2007 she was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry.
She was ranked number one on Forbes’ Top Earning Models list, in 2012 and in 2014, she was listed as the 89th most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes.
Gisele Bündchen Measurements
- Height in feet: 5’11’
- Height centimeters: 180 cm
- Weight: 57kg (126lbs)
- Measurements: 35-23-35 inches (89-58.5-89 cm)
Gisele Bündchen Biography
She was born on July 20, 1980 and she is 42 years old in 2022.
Her full name is Gisele Caroline Bündchen and she grew up in Horizontina or Três de Maio, Rio Grande do Sul, South Brazil.
Her parents are Vânia Nonnenmacher, a retired bank employee, and Valdir Bündchen, a university professor and writer, both of German origin. Bündchen grew up with five sisters: Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and her twin, PatrÃcia, her youngest by five minutes.
To add Portuguese, Gisele speaks English, Italian, Spanish, and some French.
Gisele Bündchen Book
She shares personal stories, insights and photos to explore lessons she thinks have helped shape her life. Her journey began in the south of Brazil, growing up with five siblings, playing volleyball and rescuing dogs and cats in her hometown.
In fact, she just wanted to become a professional volleyball player or a veterinarian. But at the age of 14, fate suddenly intervened in her dreams in the form of a model scout, who saw Gisele in São Paulo.
Four years later, her appearance in Alexander McQueen‘s memorable rain-soaked London runway show in the spring of 1998 launched her spectacular modeling career and ended the era of “heroin chic” fashion.
But until now, few people have gotten to know the real Gisele, a woman whose private life contrasts dramatically with her public image.
In her book, she reveals for the first time who he is and what he has learned over the past 37 years. It is to help her live a meaningful life; a journey that takes readers from a barefoot childhood in a small town in Brazil, to a successful career, motherhood, and marriage to quarterback Tom Brady.
Gisele Bündchen Diet
With her own organic garden, vegetables at every meal, and a strict detox twice a year, she is the ultimate healthy living guru. The supermodel and her family’s nutritionist and chef, Allen Campbell, lift the lid on the dietary regimen that helps her maintain her reputation as the world’s cleanest living model.
To get the day off to a good start, her family have breakfast with fresh fruit and vegetables.
In addition to juices and smoothies, she likes to prepare seasonal fruit platters to snack on, combining a variety of fruits in small amounts to ensure as many vitamins as possible.
From strawberries and raspberries to blackberries, blueberries and kiwis, the supermodel sources all of these ingredients from her own organic garden.
Eighty percent of the family’s diet is made up of organic vegetables and whole grains, namely brown rice, quinoa, millet, and beans that are cooked in natural coconut oil. In addition to this, food products containing white sugar and white flour are prohibited in the house.
When the family eats meat, it’s lean meat: organic steak, duck and chicken. In terms of fish, the Allen family chef cooks mostly wild salmon.
Dining between 5:30 p.m. m. and 6 p.m. M. It allows you to go to bed early and gives your body enough time to digest your food so your stomach can rest while you sleep. By doing this, for the first few hours, your body will be light and clean.
The supermodel has followed this routine for a long time, helping her keep her lean and toned body that makes her envious from the moment she wakes up.
A detox cure, as the seasons change.
Gisele Bündchen Career
She traveled to London in 1997, where she auditioned for 43 shows, but took part in only two international shows. Alexander McQueen chose her for his spring 1998 ready-to-wear show, “Rain!”, due to her ability to walk in high heels on a slippery runway.
In 1998, she posed for campaigns for Missoni, Chloé, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Gianfranco Ferré, Ralph Lauren, and Versace.
She appeared on the cover of Vogue Paris , her first British Vogue cover , and i- D , which featured her on the cover of her, outlining “A Girl Called Gisele”. In 1999, she left Elite Model Management to switch to IMG Models, unhappy with Elite’s work environment.
In addition to her first American Vogue cover in July 1999, dubbed “the comeback of the sexy model “, she appeared on her first Vogue group cover with fellow supermodels Kate Moss, Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington, Iman, Lauren Hutton, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Claudia Schiffer, Lisa Taylor, Paulina Porizkova, Carolyn Murphy, and Patti Hansen.
In December of that year, she appeared once again in a solo version of American Vogue . She won VH1/ Vogue Model of the Year in 1999. Noting that she was shooting five major campaigns at the age of 18, New York magazine editor Sally Singer said that she was so successful in the industry that she considers her a “model”.
She was becoming the fourth model to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine when she was named “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” in 2000. The same year, Vogue ‘s online encyclopedia of models called the hottest model Bündchen in the world and said that it opened a new category: the Brazilian bombshell.
In 2000, she appeared on 37 international Vogue covers , including three on the US edition. In January 2000, she appeared simultaneously on the covers of the American and British editions of Vogue .
The June she was co-starring George Clooney. For spring 2000 fashion week, she was opening the shows for Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior, and Valentino in New York, Milan, and Paris.
From 1998 to 2003, she was in every Dolce & Gabbana fashion campaign, totaling 11 consecutive campaigns with the brand; she returned as the face of the brand’s fragrance “The One”, in campaigns from 2006 to 2009.
She retired from the runway after signing a lucrative contract with Victoria’s Secret.In 2000, she wore the Victoria’s Secret Fantasy Bra, the Red Hot Fantasy Bra, valued at $15 million and listed in Guinness World Records as the most expensive lingerie ever created.
She was also modeling the “Sexy Splendor Fantasy Bra” in 2005, which was the second most expensive bra ever made, valued at $12.5 million.
In 2004, she appeared on the cover of another group of American Vogue , with Daria Werbowy, Natalia Vodianova, Isabeli Fontana, Karolina Kurkova, Liya Kebede, Hana Soukupova, Gemma Ward, and Karen Elson. She has appeared on the covers of W , Allure ,GQ , Forbes , Marie Claire , TIME , Vanity Fair , Esquire , and in the Pirelli Calendar .
In acting roles, she was co-starring with Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon in the 2004 remake of Taxi and in 2006, she played Serena in The Devil Wears Prada . ​​She was chosen by Time magazine in 2007 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In September 2007, she was photographed by Mario Testino for the cover of Vanity Fair ‘s style issue.
In 2008, she appeared on the cover of Vogue with NBA player LeBron James (who, at the time, was one of only 3 men to appear on the cover, along with Clooney).
The cover was criticized by some for giving the appearance of the fictional movie monster King Kong holding actress Fay Wray, thus being perceived as perpetuating racial stereotypes.
As of May 2007, she had terminated her contract with Victoria’s Secret; she described this decision as closing that chapter of her career. She would later reveal in her 2018 memoir that she also left due to feeling “less comfortable” being photographed walking down the runway in just a bikini or thong.
In August 2008, the New York Daily News listed her as the fourth most powerful person in the world of fashion.
Gisele Bündchen Awards
- 2006, she was listed on ‘Hottest Celebrity Bodies’ by E! TV.
- 2008, she was ranked as the fourth most powerful person in the world of fashion by the New York Daily News.
- 2009, she was ranked among the ’26 Greatest Models of All Time’ by Harper’s Bazaar.
- 2011 ,she was placed among the ‘Top Female Cheerleaders’ by CEOWORLD magazine
- She was ranked 45th and 95th in the ‘100 Sexiest Women in the World’ by FHM and FHM Australia, respectively.
- In 2012, Forbes ranked her among the ‘Most Powerful Celebrities’ and among the World’s Most Powerful Latin Celebrities.
- Time added her to the 100 Fashion Icons of All Time list of ‘100 Most Influential Fashion Icons Since 1923’.
- In 2014, she was ranked 89th in Forbes’ ‘The World’s Most Powerful Women’ and 5th in Forbes Brazil’s ’25 Biggest Celebrities in Brazil’.
Gisele Bündchen Net Worth
Her net worth is $400 million.
Gisele Bündchen Private Life
Tom Brady and her met through a friend in 2006, and it was more or less love at first sight. According to the New York Daily News, he proposed to his girlfriend in early 2009.
He popped the question in front of her parents, on a private flight ‘decked out in white roses and champagne.’
The couple married on February 26, 2009, in an intimate Catholic ceremony in Santa Monica, California.
He told GQ that the wedding took about 10 days to plan and only included close family members. They also held the second ceremony in Costa Rica, the following April.
Along with her husband, they have two children: a son named Benjamin Rein who was born on December 8, 2009, and a daughter named Vivian Lake who was born on December 5, 2012.
