Gisele Bündchen

Gisele Bündchen
Bündchen in 2015
Born
Gisele Caroline Bündchen[4]

(1980-07-20) 20 July 1980
Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Occupations
  • Model
  • activist
Years active1996–present
Spouse
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(m. 2009; div. 2022)​
PartnerJoaquim Valente (2023–present)
Children3
Modeling information
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1]
Hair colorBlonde (dyed)[1]
Eye colorBlue[1]
Agency
  • Option Model Agency (Zurich)[2]
  • Model Management (Hamburg)[3]
Signature

Gisele Caroline Bündchen (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiˈzɛli ˈbĩtʃẽ], German: [ˈbʏntçn̩], born 20 July 1980)[5] is a Brazilian supermodel and activist. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world.[6] 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.[7][8] In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[9]

Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999.[10] Bündchen was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006.[11] 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.[12] In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel.[13] Bündchen has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers.[14]

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).[15] 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.[16][17] In 2016, she appeared in the Emmy Award–winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, in the episode "Fueling the Fire".[18] Bündchen's charitable endeavors include Save the Children, the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders.[19] She has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program since 2009.[20]

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  7. ^ Goldman, Lea; Blakeley, Kiri (18 January 2007). "The 20 Richest Women In Entertainment". Forbes. Archived from the original on 24 November 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  8. ^ Solomon, Brian (14 June 2012). "The World's Highest Paid Models". Forbes. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  9. ^ "World's Most Powerful Women in Media and Entertainment 2014: No. 89. Gisele Bundchen". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Gisele Bundchen". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 April 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  11. ^ Boan, Daniel (7 November 2018). "Gisele Bündchen says she quit Victoria's Secret because she felt 'less at ease' posing in bikinis". Insider. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  12. ^ O'Connell, Vanessa (20 March 2008). "How to Walk Like a Model". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  13. ^ "Supermodels like we once were don't exist any more". British Vogue. 4 September 2007. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Gisele Bündchen: Style File". British Vogue. July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  15. ^ "Beauty and Bucks: Richest Supermodels". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
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  17. ^ "Gisele Bündchen talks about modeling, her family and 'Gisele & the Green Team'". Los Angeles Times. 12 December 2010. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Years of Living Dangerously". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  19. ^ "Report: Gisele Ups Brangelina By Giving $1.5 Million to the Red Cross". WNBC. 15 January 2010. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  20. ^ Shanahan, Mark & Meredith; Goldstein, Meredith (21 September 2009). "Bundchen the environmentalist". boston.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
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