- 2007
Giving Up Her Wings
After seven years as a Victoria's Secret model, Bündchen, 26, parts ways with the lingerie giant. New York Post's Page Six reports that Bündchen split with the company because it wouldn't raise her $5 million-a-year salary and many speculate that she's heading towards retirement. In 2004, she told Vanity Fair, "I would never want to be one of those girls who is 30, and modeling is all they know how to do. I want to do my best, and then I want to close the chapter on this job so I can look back and say this is what I did from 14 to 26, and then have another chapter."
The Highest-Paid Supermodel
Bündchen tops Forbes' list of the World's Richest Models and earns $33 million in the past year. Kate Moss and Heidi Klum take second and third place respectively. "Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me," she tells Vanity Fair. "I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business."
- 2008
On Love & Her Football Beau
Dubbed "the globe’s reigning symbol of female perfection" by GQ, Bündchen appears on the magazine's cover, where she discusses meeting boyfriend Tom Brady. "We met through a friend who knew us both for a long time," she says. "Our friend knew that we would like each other. And we did. So I guess he was right." Formerly with DiCaprio, the supermodel admits: "I've had my heart broken." But of Brady, she says, "He really, genuinely doesn't have a bad bone in his body."
Photo Credits
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): RexUSA; Mario Testino exclusively for Vanity Fair
- Name
- Gisele Bündchen
- Birth Date
- July 20, 1980
- Birth Place
- Horizontina, Brazil
- Heart Monitor
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Tom Brady, boyfriend (2007 to present)
Kelly Slater, ex-boyfriend (2005 to 2006)
Leonardo DiCaprio, ex-boyfriend (2000 to 2005)
João Paulo Diniz, ex-boyfriend (2000)
Scott Barnhill, ex-boyfriend (1999)
