Gisele Bundchen

Gisele Caroline Bündchen (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiˈzɛli ˈbĩtʃẽ]; born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.
In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find success. In 1999, Vogue magazine dubbed her "The Return of the Sexy Model" and she was credited with ending the "heroin chic" era of modeling.
Bündchen was one of Victoria's Secret Angels from 2000 until 2006. Since 2004, she has been the highest-paid model in the world and the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment industry with an estimated $150 million fortune. Models Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell have argued that Bündchen is the only true remaining "supermodel" and according to Forbes she may become the first ever billionaire supermodel.
As an occasional actress, she had supporting roles in Taxi (2004) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006).
From 2000 to 2005, Bündchen was in a much-publicized relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She married New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in 2009.

Gisele Bundchen Runway Collection (1998-2002)


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Gisele Bundchen "Sexy Angel"



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Gisele Bündchen: Vogue Cover Shoot Behind-the-Scenes April 2010




Family and early life

Bündchen was born in the Brazilian town of Três de Maio and grew up in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul. She is of German-Brazilian heritage from both her parents, Vânia Nonnenmacher, a bank clerk pensioner, and Valdir Bündchen, a university teacher and writer. She has five sisters – Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and her fraternal twin Patrícia, Gisele's junior by five minutes.[12] Bündchen is Roman Catholic and, of course, speaks Portuguese as her native language. She also speaks Spanish and English.[13][dead link]
“ I was born in Horizontina, a town in the back-country of (Brazilian) state Rio Grande do Sul. The town was once mainly colonized by Germans. In the school which I attended, learning German was actually obligatory from third grade on. But being out of touch with the language for such a long time, I unfortunately forgot it. [...] I belong to the sixth generation of my family in Brazil.[14] ”
Originally, Bündchen wanted to be a professional volleyball player and considered playing for the Brazilian team, Sogipa.[citation needed] While in school, Bündchen was so thin that her friends used to call her "Olívia Palito" (Portuguese for Olive Oyl, Popeye's skinny girlfriend) and "Saracura" (a type of Brazilian shorebird).[citation needed]
In 1993, a then-13-year-old Bündchen joined a modeling course with her sisters Patrícia and Gabriela at her mother's insistence.[15] The following year, Bündchen went to São Paulo on a school excursion to give them an opportunity to walk in a big city. In a shopping mall, while eating at McDonald's with her friends, Bündchen was discovered by a modeling agency.[citation needed] She was subsequently selected for a national contest, Elite Look of the Year, in which she placed second – Claudia Menezes, from Bahia, took first place. Bündchen placed fourth in the world contest, held in Ibiza, Spain. In 1996, Bündchen moved to New York City to begin her modeling career, debuting at Fashion Week.[16]
[edit]Modeling career



In the twilight of heroin chic—the skinny, boyish nineties look epitomized by model Kate Moss—Gisele was the anti-waif, her tanned, healthy figure a fresh bolt of runway sizzle that jolted a jaded front row. Anna Wintour of Vogue crowned her the “model of the millennium,” that same year Vogue called her "The return of the sexy model". “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World,” Rolling Stone declared her in 2000. “And God Created Gisele...,”Vanity Fair sighed in 2009.[16]
Gisele Bündchen pioneered the "horse walk" – a stomping movement created when a model picks her knees up high and kicks her feet out in front.[17]
In 1997 Bundchen travels to London, where she auditions for 42 shows. She gets her big break when chosen for her ability to walk in towering heels—on a slippery runway—for Alexander McQueen’s memorable spring 1998 “rain” ready-to-wear show. Echoing similar accolades for Elle Macpherson a decade earlier, McQueen dubs Gisele “the Body,” immediately boosting her bookings.[16]
In 1998 She poses for Missoni, Chloé, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Gianfranco Ferré, Ralph Lauren, and Versace campaigns. Makes the cover of French Vogue. Cult fashion magazine i-D also puts her on its cover, profiling “A Girl Called Gisele.” [16]
As the year 2000 approached, Gisele Bündchen was the world’s hottest model, opening up a new category in the popular imagination: the Brazilian bombshell.[16] By the year 2000, her going rate was reportedly already up to $7,000 an hour, according to WWD.[16]
She appeared on the cover of Vogue in July, November and December 1999.[citation needed] She won the VH1/Vogue Model of the Year for 1999,[citation needed] and a January 2000 cover gave her three consecutive Vogue covers[citation needed] and in December 2009 she appeared alongside of her husband Tom Brady on the cover of book The World in Vogue – People, Parties, Places.[18] In 2000, she became the fourth model to appear on the cover of the music magazine Rolling Stone,[citation needed] when she was named "the most beautiful girl in the world."[19] Bündchen has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including W, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, Allure, international editions of Vogue, as well as style and lifestyle publications such as i-D, The Face, Arena, Citizen K, Flair, GQ, Esquire, and Marie Claire.[15] She has been featured both in the Pirelli Calendar 2001 and 2006[15] and in broader market publications such as TIME, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Newsweek and Veja, more than 500 magazine covers throughout the world.[20] A total that is only second to Princess Diana's.[21]
She has also been on numerous book covers such as "MaRIO DE JANEIRO" by Mario Testino [22] and Russell James Retrospective book.[23]
In 2002 she opened the Luella Bartley’s show in a denim minitrench and go-go boots; the bag she carries on the runway is quickly dubbed “the Gisele” and becomes a best seller.[21]
Bündchen consistently works with acclaimed photographers such as Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, and Patrick Demarchelier, and with renowned directors such as Jean Baptiste Mondino and Bruno Aveillan.[citation needed]
In 2003 she continued to pose for Missoni, Dior, and Dolce & Gabbana campaigns, adding Balenciaga to her list of regulars.[21] From 1998-2003 Gisele was in every single Dolce & Gabbana fashion campaign. Totaling 11 consecutive campaigns with the brand. In 2006-2009 she returned as the face of the brand's fragrance titled "Dolce & Gabbana The One".[24]
In 2004 W declares the ubiquitous model “the biggest cover girl in the world.” She tops Forbes’s list of highest-earning supermodels for the first time. February, Clad in a bikini, appears on the cover of Time’s Style and Design Issue, with the cover line “Women in Fashion: Who’s Got the Power?” [21]
Photographed by Steven Meisel, she was presented on the September 2004 cover of American Vogue as one of the "Models of the Moment".[25] In the December 2005 issue, New York magazine chose and publicized a list of 123 reasons to love New York City with reason number 43 being that Gisele Bündchen lived there.[26]


In 2005, For its thirtieth anniversary, Vogue Brazil celebrates a decade of work by its country’s most famous export with a special issue dedicated to the supermodel, who graces six different covers—one for each letter of her name. “Gisele, Ten! Brazil Vogue Thirty!” the cover line reads.[21]
In 2006 WWD reports At 26, Bundchen is second only to Princess Diana in the number of magazine covers ever.[21]
In February 2007 Bündchen returned to the Milan runway by opening and closing Dolce & Gabbana’s Metallic Woman show and in July opens Dior’s sixtieth-anniversary couture show with a black-and-white tableau vivant in homage to Irving Penn alongside other modeling legends Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista.[21]
Claudia Schiffer said: "Supermodels, like we once were, don't exist any more" and reckoned that Gisele Bündchen was the only one close to earning the supermodel title.[27]
Naomi Campbell said: "Models need to earn their stripes – I just think the term is used a little too loosely. Kate Moss is obviously a supermodel but, after Gisele, I don’t think there’s been one."[28]
On 26 August 2008, the New York Daily News, in a list, named Bündchen the fourth-most-powerful person in the fashion world.[29]
In 2008 she Played Peter Pan’s Wendy in Disney’s “Year of a Million Dreams” campaign, opposite renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov as the ageless boy adventurer and comedian Tina Fey as Tinker Bell; the elaborately staged portraits were shot by Annie Leibovitz. In April of the same year, wearing a jade silk-organza column by Calvin Klein, appears on the front of Vogue with NBA star LeBron James, the first African-American man to grace the cover. She also inks a lucrative multiyear deal to become the American face of Max Factor, for the brand’s upcoming one-hundredth anniversary campaign.[30]
On 12 May 2009, The Independent, called her the biggest star in fashion history.[31]
In 2010 she makes Vogue’s best-dressed-of-the-decade list for her 2008 and 2009 Met gala appearances as well as her bikini-clad, logo-tattooed appearance in a 2000 fashion editorial.[30] April 2010 she is photographed for the cover of American Vogue for the 11th time. Writer Joan Juliet Buck profiles the new mother, who is photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, pregnant, then post-pregnant with her baby, and on horseback, doing yoga, and diving into a pool.[30]
September 2010 she leads a pack of top models for Vogue’s massive Fashion’s Night Out runway show at Lincoln Center, in New York. She then makes a surprise appearance on Balenciaga’s runway, closing the show.[30]
She is ranked No.1 as the Top Model Icon of All Time at models.com.[32] She is also No.1 on the Money Girls list and #2 on The Sexiest Models list.[33] In 2011, CEOWORLD Magazine ranked her among their Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.[34] She was also ranked number 95 in FHM magazines 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2011.[35]
[edit]Nude photographs
On 11 April 2008, a black-and-white photo of Bündchen, shot by Irving Penn, was auctioned for US$193,000 (£96,000). The picture was one of dozens from the collection of Gert Elfering that were sold at Christie's International in New York. Bündchen's picture reached the highest price in comparison with the others.[36][37]
[edit]Image inspiration


In 2006, Elle magazine bosses surveyed the American leading stylists and asked them to name the star whose hair is a favourite for their clients. More than 50 percent gave Bündchen the title of best hair in Hollywood.[38]
In February 2008, research results were publicized by The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) to reveal how world celebrity images, which overwhelm popular media, influence people's choices and decisions to undergo plastic surgery. The question asked was "What influences do celebrities have on the decisions patients make?". The survey was sent to more than 20,000 plastic surgeons in 84 countries. Gisele Bündchen was among the most frequently mentioned celebrities. Bündchen won the abdomen and hair categories and took second place in the breasts category.[39]
On January 2011, Bündchen came in first in the most desired female body on the 14th Annual Famed Hottest Looks survey, compiled by Beverly Hills plastic surgeons Dr. Richard Fleming and Dr. Toby Mayer. Even after giving birth in December 2009, her body was the most requested by the doctors' patients.
“ 'Different body types are represented on the list because most women are shaped differently and want to look naturally beautiful,' explained Dr. Fleming. 'Some women want the lean look like Gisele [...]'[40] ”
According to Vogue.com Bündchen, who was considered by designer David Neville of Rag & Bone, is one of the newest icons in American style.[41]
In 2011 Askmen.com revealed their Annual "Most Desirable Women" list of which Gisele along with Angelina Jolie and Beyonce being the only women to make the list every year for ten years in a row.[42]
She is often cited in popular culture as a "standard of beauty". In the May 2011 issue of Vanity Fair pop singer Katy Perry stated, When asked about the infamous photo Brand tweeted of her without makeup in the middle of the night, Perry laughs it off. “We were just messing around,” she says, “I didn’t really care. I mean, when I go to rehearsals I look like that. I’m every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am…. You don’t have to wake up looking like, you know, Gisele.” [43]
In the August 2011 issue of Allure Magazine Jessica Alba stated; "I can't ever get down to the weight I was before I had Honor," she says. "My body's just different. The jeans just sort of zip up differently, and things hang differently. It's a miracle what happens, but you definitely are different afterward." She laughs. "Unless you're Gisele." [44]
On the popular American Television show "The Office" the TV character Andy Bernard played by Ed Helms was famously quoted as saying "Andy: I date models. Face models. My girlfriend, on a scale of one to Gisele, uh, a nine." [45]
Her home country even credits a surge in breast enlargements to the “G-Force” (to borrow a phrase from Women’s Wear Daily).[46]
[edit]Endorsements and earnings

Bündchen has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including several seasons of Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Victoria's Secret.[citation needed] She has appeared in advertisements for Nivea lotion and is the face of several Brazilian brands including Vivo, Multiplan (Shopping Malls), Colcci, Credicard (Citibank) and Volkswagen do Brasil.[citation needed] After C&A Brazil hired Bündchen as a spokesmodel and began airing television commercials, sales increased by 30%.[47]
In May 2006, Bündchen signed a multi-million dollar deal with American giant Apple Inc.. She starred in an advertising campaign to promote the new Macintosh line through the Get a Mac advertisements.[citation needed] Also in 2006, Bündchen became the new face of Swiss luxury watchmaker Ebel.[citation needed]
IN 2001 Gisele launched her best-selling flip-flop line, Ipanema by Gisele Bundchen; in just three years, sales topped $30 million, with a portion of proceeds going to green causes.[48]
She has her own line of sandals with footwear company Grendene called Ipanema Gisele Bündchen. Forbes puts her 53rd on their list of the most powerful celebrities of 2007 because of the international success of her shoe line, making the brand Ipanema the most sold Brazilian flip-flop in the world, surpassing the legendary Havaianas.[citation needed] Custom Ipanema flip-flops sell for as much as $230 a pair.[citation needed] She is also the owner of a hotel in the south of Brazil, the Palladium Executive.[citation needed]
On 1 May 2007, it was announced that Bündchen had ended her contract with Victoria's Secret.[49] Shares of its parent company, Limited Brands, reportedly fall 31.5 percent.[21]
In July 2007, having earned an estimated total of $33 million in the previous 12 months, Forbes magazine named her the world's top-earning model in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.[50]
An American economist named Fred Fuld developed a stock index to measure the profit performance improvement of companies represented by Bündchen compared with the Dow Jones Industrial Average. According to Fuld, the Gisele Bündchen Stock Index was up 15% between May and July 2007, substantially surpassing the Dow Jones Industrial Average which was up just 8.2%.[51][52]
By 2008 With annual income now topping $35 million, she continues to dominate the Forbes list of the world’s highest-earning models, and also holds steady on the magazine’s list of the Top 20 Richest Women in Entertainment.[30]
During 2009–2010, she was reportedly the top earning supermodel, earning an estimated $25 million.[53]
In 2010 Despite her pregnancy the previous year, she still retains the top spot as Forbes’s highest-earning model, with a take-home pay of $25 million.[30]
In 2010 Gisele introduced her own Skin care line, named Sejaa Pure Skincare.[54]
In early 2011, she got a shout-out in an unlikely forum: the third-quarter earnings call of Procter & Gamble. Why? P&G's Pantene shampoo sales exploded 40% in Latin America after Bündchen started slinging the suds. [55]
Edward Razek, chief marketing officer of Limited Brands, who worked with Bündchen during her Victoria's Secret career says, "She's an international icon who can also move product—from shampoo to couture."[56][57]
On May Forbes ranked her, for the fifth consecutive time, as the world's top-earning model with an estimated $45 million over the past 12 months (2010–2011). Her earnings climbed $20 million over the previous year, thanks to an economic boom in her homeland of Brazil coupled with a 10% surge in the value of the Brazilian real against the dollar.[56]
The Lingerie Brand "HOPE" of which Gisele has been contracted since 2010 discovered the power of Gisele to stimulate business. The company saw the search for its products duplicate in just two months, resulted, says the commercial director Carlos Eduardo Padula, of the visibility generated by the launch of Gisele's personal lingerie collection the Gisele Bundchen Brazilian Intimates. The sales in "The Day of the Boyfriends" also saw growth in 2011 by 25% in comparison with 2010, when it did not yet have Gisele representing the brand. Upon hiring Gisele for Hope since 2010, it's been reported she has made the invoicing of the company grow by 40%.[58]
[edit]Other ventures

[edit]Charity activities


In 2001 Post-9/11, Gisele appeared with model Carolyn Murphy and actress Julianne Moore in print ads for the CFDA Fashion for America T-shirt campaign benefiting the Twin Towers Fund. In December she Posed with her teacup Yorkie, Vida, wearing the fund-raising tee on Vogue’s cover.[16]
Bündchen lends her support and image to a number of charities and humanitarian causes, such as the I am African campaign, in which she painted her face to protest the lack of attention given to Africa's HIV/AIDS victims.[citation needed] Without receiving payment, Bündchen was, in 2006, the face of American Express Red Card, an initiative launched by U2 front man Bono and Bobby Shriver to send a percentage of monies earned from the financial transactions of this credit card to Africa's HIV/AIDS victims.[59]
In 2009, she appeared almost simultaneously in 30 covers of the international issues of Elle magazines wearing (Product) Red clothing and posing with products from companies who support the same cause.[60][61]
In 2003, Bündchen designed an exclusive and limited edition of platinum hearts, working with Platinum Guild International and Harper’s Bazaar, crafted by jewelers Gumuchian Fils. These platinum hearts were sold to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital which specializes in cancer treatment. She served as the spokesperson and campaign model for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer.[62] Bündchen already gave a São Paulo Fashion Week's payment check for Zero Hunger (in Portuguese: Fome Zero), a Brazilian-government program introduced by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also in 2003.[citation needed]
She was, in 2009, one of the celebrities to sign up for the auction fundraiser of celebrities autographed iPods to raise cash for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, organised by Tonic.com..[63] The money is for the Music Rising institution which aims to recover and invest in the musical culture of the destroyed areas.
She promotes protecting the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Amazon Rainforest water sources, donating to this cause a percentage of profits from her line of sandals named Ipanema Gisele Bündchen. Also, Bündchen helps projects such as Nascentes do Brasil, ISA, Y Ikatu Xingu and De Olho nos Mananciais. Bündchen and Grendene, the company that produces and disseminates her line of sandals, also joined the Florestas do Futuro project for the reforestation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The project was created by the NGO named SOS Atlantic Forest in 2004.[64][65] The new forest, named for Grendene – Gisele Bündchen, started with 25,500 shoots of 100 different species, enough to revitalize an area of 15 hectares.[66][67]
In 2008 she Launches Projeto Água Limpa (Clean Water Project), aimed at sustainable environmental management in her home state of Rio Grande do Sul.[16]
On 20 September 2009, she was designated Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).[68]
In January 2010, Bündchen donated US$1,500,000 to relief efforts for the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[69]
Since 2010, she worked on an animated web series called Gisele and the Green Team, to highlight green issues to educate kids and adults.[70] It is considered "incredibly bad", "a mix of Captain Planet, Sailor Moon and Totally Spies, without any kind of reedeming factor" [71]
In March 2011, it was reported, Bundchen wrote a check for $1 million to the earthquake fund created by the Japanese Red Cross Society after Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island nation in recorded history and the tsunami it unleashed. It was also reported she sent $250,000 to the Pacific Tsunami Fund and Save the Children and another $250,000 to a Japanese Red Cross earthquake fund.[72]
[edit]Acting career
In 2004, Bündchen played the bank robbers' leader, Vanessa, in the 2004 remake Taxi. In 2006, she played a minor character in The Devil Wears Prada. She was also a cameo in the Apple computer advertising campaign opposite Justin Long and John Hodgeman as a Mac iMovie.[citation needed]
[edit]Personal life



From 2000 to 2005, Bündchen was in a relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio.[11] At the 2005 Academy Awards, she wore an embroidered ivory Empire-waist Christian Dior dress to the ceremony with beau and Aviator best-actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio; of which the look earned her a nod on Vogue’s best-dressed list.[16]
On Thursday, 26 February 2009, Bündchen married Tom Brady in a small Catholic ceremony at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California.[73] On 5 April 2009, the couple remarried in a larger ceremony in Costa Rica, with Brady's son (whom he had with actress Bridget Moynahan) present.[74] For the April ceremony, Bündchen wore a dress and veil designed by John Galliano.[75]
In December 2009, Bündchen gave birth to a boy in Boston, named Benjamin Rein Brady—his middle name is in honor of Bündchen's mother's father Reinoldo.[76][77][clarification needed] They baptized him at 6 months in Santa Monica on 22 June 2010.[78]
Bündchen caused controversy when she told Harper's Bazaar Magazine that breastfeeding should be a "worldwide law",[79] but later moderated her comments on her blog, stating, "my intention [was to] make a comment about the importance of breastfeeding".

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