Gisele Bundchen Bio | Wiki
Gisele Bundchen is a Brazilian fashion model. She has been one of the highest-paid models in the world since 2001. In 2007, Gisele was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes’s top-earning models list in 2012.
In 2014, she was listed as the 89th Most Powerful Woman in the World by Forbes. Vogue credited Gisele with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999. She was a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006.
She is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model lifting her knees high and kicking her feet to step. In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Gisele the only remaining supermodel. Moreover, she has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers.
Gisele Bundchen Age
Gisele was born on July 20, 1980, in Horizontina, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is 42 years old.
Gisele Bundchen Height
She is a woman of tall stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 11 in (Approx. 1.8 m).
Gisele Bundchen Family
She was born and raised in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul by her parents Vânia and Valdir Bündchen. Gisele is a sixth-generation German Brazilian. Her mother is a bank clerk pensioner and her father is a sociologist and writer.
She grew up with five sisters, Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela, and her fraternal twin, Patrícia. The family was Roman Catholic. Although Gisele’s parents speak German and she learned German in school, she no longer speaks the language. She speaks Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, and some French.
Gisele Bundchen Husband | Tom Brady
Gisele is married to her husband Tom Brady, NFL quarterback. The couple started dating in December 2006 after a mutual friend introduced them on a blind date. They celebrated their wedding on February 26, 2009, in a small ceremony at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California. the couple had a second marriage ceremony, in Costa Rica in April 2009.
Together, they have two children Vivian Lake Brady and Benjamin Rein. Gisele is the stepmother of Brady’s first son from a previous relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan. The family consumes primarily a plant-based diet developed by their personal chef Allen Campbell.
They have lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, when Tom played for the New England Patriots, and reside part-time in New York City. They have since moved to Tampa, Florida after he went to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In December 2020, the couple reportedly bought a home in Indian Creek, Florida.
Gisele Bundchen Leonardo DiCaprio
Gisele was in a relationship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio from 2000 to 2005. In 2004, she and DiCaprio made People’s annual Most Beautiful Couples List. After experiencing a period of depression, Gisele decided to end her relationship with DiCaprio after she felt their lifestyles were no longer complemented.
She said in her memoir Lessons, “I was becoming more and more aware of things that I’d chosen not to look at. Was I alone in wanting to do some serious soul-searching while he stayed the same? In the end, unfortunately, the answer was yes.”
Gisele Bundchen Education
She aspired to be a volleyball player, but in 1993 her mother enrolled her and sisters Patrícia and Gabriela in a modeling course to teach them confidence and better posture. After the course ended, the girls were rewarded with a trip to Curitiba, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, where Gisele was discovered by Elite Model Management at a shopping mall.
She was placed second in a national contest, Elite Model Look, which was then known as Look of the Year. In 1995, she moved to São Paulo to launch her modeling career. Gisele debuted at New York Fashion Week in 1996
Gisele Bundchen Movies
She was nominated for Choice Movie Female Breakout Star and for Choice Movie Villain at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards for her supporting role in Taxi (2004). Gisele had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and was the executive producer of an educational environmental cartoon, Gisele & the Green Team, from 2010 to 2011. In 2016, she appeared in the Emmy award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, in the episode “Fueling the Fire”.
Gisele Bundchen United Nations | Goodwill
Gisele and her husband, Tom served Thanksgiving dinner to more than 400 job trainees at Goodwill Industries International’s headquarters in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in November 2008. In September 2009, she was designated Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme. Gisele made her first visit to Africa as UNEP Goodwill Ambassador in January 2012.
In January 2012, she visited Kenya to experience the reality of energy poverty as part of the Energy for All 2030 project. On the eve of World Environment Day in June 2012, Gisele planted the first of a series of 50,000 trees in Rio de Janeiro. In January 2014, she joined the Rainforest Alliance board of directors.
Gisele Bundchen Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Gisele’s estimated net worth is $400 million.
Who Is Gisele Bundchen
Gisele is a Brazilian fashion model. She has been one of the highest-paid models in the world since 2001. In 2007, Gisele was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes’s top-earning models list in 2012.