Gisele Bündchen celebrates 45 years; Learn curiosities about the largest model in the world

In the front row of a São Paulo Fashion Week parade in the early 2000s, Costanza Pascolato, one of the country’s largest authorities when it comes to fashion, gives her verdict about Gisele Bündchen: “She is a force of nature.”

The gaucho model, which turns 45 this Sunday, had just been ovated from the catwalk, where he once again showed the world because he is considered the largest of all in the art of parading. “She changed the stop, the way of stepping, of moving her arms, her hands. Gisele began to walk firmly, crossing her legs a little, which we call the horse’s past. All supermodels began to imitate,” his former entrepreneur Monica Monteiro told F5 in 2024.

Who saw, saw. Gisele made her last fashion show in 2015, also at São Paulo Fashion Week, in a show in which she was honored by other top models that were part of her career, such as Ana Claudia Michels, Fernanda Tavares, Luciana Curtis, Carol Bittencourt and Carol Ribeiro. At the end of the presentation, they all wore shirts with Gisele images and applauded it ahead of the photographers.

In the front row, the then husband, Tom Brady (“Congratulations, love of my life,” he said) and the parents of the model, Valdir and Vânia. Dead as a result of cancer in 2024, Dona Vânia was the one who took her daughter, then a 14 -year -old brat to make her first casting. The career of the most successful Brazilian model in history began there.

She is among the richest women in the world, with an estimated equity of $ 400 million and has starred more than 1,200 magazine covers. Fame and money, however, we all know, are not always synonymous with mental health and the model, who as a teenager hated her hair (believe), had anxiety seizures and faced a panic syndrome picture for a few years. The food was unruly and she said she arrived “at the bottom of the well.”

Today mother of three, she has embraced a healthy lifestyle and, if not parading, continues to campaign here and there and painting some events in Brazil. In 2023, he was hired by a brewery for a marketing action at the Rio Carnival. It received a fee of $ 2 million (about $ 10 million) to stay two hours in the sambadrome. Doing the math, pocketed no less than $ 57,000 per minute.

There is no news that the contractor was not satisfied with the result of such investment. Only Gisele was said the next day. Like always.