Brazilian fashion model, actress, and producer. She is the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme. She became a top figure in her field by the age of 20. Bundchen has graced the cover of every fashion magazine available, and catwalks for U.S. $10,000 a day, at an estimated $5 million a year. A fraternal twin, at 5’11”, she is one of six girls born to Vania and Valdir, a real estate agent and a stay-at-home mom. She aspired to be a professional volleyball player, but at age 14 started modeling and by 1997, at 16, she had moved to N.Y. with her mom initially and then three sisters for company. She caught the eye of top photographer, Mario Testino who declared her mesmerizing, a hard worker and energetic. Sexy and voluptuous, she is a non-stop talker who learned English in a crash course.
Bndchen has also ventured into acting. She played a supporting role in Taxi (2004), for which she was nominated at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Breakout Performance and for Choice Movie Bad Guy. Bndchen also had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and from 2010 to 2011 she was the executive producer of an educational environmental cartoon, Gisele & the Green Team.
She was the girlfriend of Jo?o Paulo Diniz, one of the heirs to Abilio Diniz, owner of Brazil’s biggest supermarket chain. From 2000 to 2005, Bndchen was in a relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She married New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in 2009.
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