Gisele Bündchen
Brazilian fashion model (born 1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gisele Caroline Bündchen (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiˈzɛli ˈbĩtʃẽ], German: [ˈbʏntçn̩], born 20 July 1980[4]) is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world.[5] 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.[6][7] In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[8]
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Born | Gisele Caroline Bündchen[1] (1980-07-20) 20 July 1980 (age 43) Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
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Years active | 1997–present |
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Partner | Leonardo DiCaprio (2000–2005) |
Children | 2 |
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Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] |
Hair color | Blonde[2] |
Eye color | Blue[2] |
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Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999.[9] Bündchen was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006.[10] 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.[11] In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel.[12] Bündchen has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers.[13]
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).[14] 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.[15][16] In 2016, she appeared in the Emmy Award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, in the episode "Fueling the Fire".[17] Bündchen's charitable endeavors include Save the Children, Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders.[18] She has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program since 2009.[19]