Gisele Bundchen

Date of Birth
20 July 1980, Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Birth Name
Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen

Nickname
Gise
The Body
La Bundchen

Height
5' 11" (1.80 m)

Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model and occasional film actress. She is the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme.

In the late 1990s, Bündchen became the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find international success.In 1999, Vogue magazine dubbed her "The Return of the Sexy Model" and she was credited with ending the "heroin chic" era of modeling. Bündchen was one of Victoria's Secret Angels from 2000 until mid-2007.


From 2000 to 2005, Bündchen was in a relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio.In 2004, Bündchen and DiCaprio made People's annual Most Beautiful Couples List.


In December 2006, she began dating New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, while Bridget Moynahan was pregnant with Brady's child. On Thursday, 26 February 2009, Bündchen married Brady in a small Catholic ceremony at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California.On 5 April 2009, the couple remarried in a larger ceremony in Costa Rica, with Brady's son present.In December 2009, Bündchen gave birth to a boy in Boston, named Benjamin Rein Brady; his middle name is in honor of Bündchen's maternal grandfather Reinoldo

The busy model has contracts with Versace, Givenchy, the Bank of Brazil, and Salvatore Ferragamo in 2012 alone.