Modeling career
Originally, Bündchen wanted to be a professional volleyball player and considered playing for the Brazilian team, Sogipa. While in school, Bündchen was so thin that her friends used to call her "OlÃvia Palito" (Portuguese for Olive Oyl, Popeye's skinny girlfriend), and "Saracura" (a type of Brazilian shorebird).
In 1993, a then-13-year-old Bündchen joined a modeling course with her sisters PatrÃcia and Gabriela at her mother's insistence. The following year, Bündchen went to São Paulo in a school excursion to give them an opportunity to walk in a big city. In a shopping mall, Bündchen was discovered by a modeling agency. She was subsequently selected for a national contest, Elite Look of the Year, in which she placed second — Claudia Menezes, from Bahia, took first place. Bündchen placed fourth in the world contest, held in Ibiza, Spain. In 1996, Bündchen moved to New York City to begin her modeling career, debuting at Fashion Week.
Her debut on the cover of
More about Gisele Bundchen (From Wikipedia)
Family And Early Life
Gisele Bündchen was born in the Brazilian town of Três de Maio and grew up in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, to Vânia Nonnenmacher, a bank clerk pensioner, and Valdir Bündchen, read more...
Modeling Career
Originally, Bündchen wanted to be a professional volleyball player and considered playing for the Brazilian team, Sogipa. While in school, Bündchen was so thin that her friends read more...
Endorsements And Earnings
Since her debut, Bündchen has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including several seasons of Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Mervyn's, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, read more...
Gisele As One Of The Reasons To Love New York
On December 2005 issue, the New York magazine elected and publicized a list of 123 reasons to love New York City, and the reason of number 43 announced on occasion was because Gisele read more...
Gisele Bündchen Stock Index
An American economist named Fred Fuld developed a stock index to measure the profit performance improvement of companies represented by Bündchen compared to the Dow Jones Industrial read more...
Tribute To Gisele (song)
A Brazilian singer and songwriter named Gabriel Guerra, along with Pedro Cezar, another musician, wrote as homage the song Tributo a Gisele (Tribute to Gisele in English), which read more...
Her Image As Inspiration For Aesthetic Plastic Surgeries
A result of research was publicized at February 2008 by The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) to reveal how world celebrity images, that overwhelm popular read more...
Nude Photography Auctioned For US$193,000 (£96,000)
On April 11, 2008, a black-and-white photo of Bündchen, shot by Irving Penn, was auctioned for USD 193,000 (£96,000). The picture was one of dozens from the collection of Gert read more...
Social Work
Bündchen lends her support and image for a number of charities and humanitarian causes, such as the I am African campaign, painting her face for protesting against the lack of read more...
Personal Relationships
Bündchen has dated Leonardo DiCaprio and Kelly Slater. She is currently dating New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Since they started their relationship there are rumors read more...