Also known as: Gisele Caroline Bündchen, ژیزل بوندشن
Born in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1980-07-20 (age 45)
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian fashion 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 $70 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 world's 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; they divorced in October 2022. She is now in a unmarried relationship with Jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valentine, as of 2023.
Bündchen is the mother of three children (two with Brady and one with Valentine)
From Wikipedia
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiˈzɛli ˈbĩtʃẽ], German: [ˈbʏntçn̩]; born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian model and activist. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. Bündchen is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement where a model lifts her knees high and kicks her feet to step. In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel. She has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers.
Bündchen 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). She had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and was the executive producer of an educational environmental cartoon, Gisele & the Green Team, in 2010 to 2011. In 2016, Bündchen appeared in the Emmy Award–winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, in the episode "Fueling the Fire". Her charitable endeavors include Save the Children, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders. Bündchen has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program since 2009.