Gisele Bündchen Biography

Fast Facts

• Donates the proceeds from sales of her Ipanema flip-flops to a different charity each year
• Supports and donates to numerous charities concerned with the environment, sustainability, and cancer research, and often donates money to help the victims of natural disasters, like the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina
• Won the VH1-Vogue Model of the Year award in 1999 and was on the January 2000 Vogue cover, making her one of few people to be on three consecutive Vogue covers
• Was nominated for two Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Bad Guy and Choice Movie Breakout Performance - Female for "Taxi" in 2005
• Soon after being discovered, she placed second in the national Elite Look of the Year contest and fourth in the international contest, prompting her to move to New York City to begin her modeling career in 1996
• Was encouraged to take a modeling course by her mother at age 13 and was discovered by a modeling agency a year later at a shopping mall
• Has her own line of flip-flops called Ipanema Gisele Bündchen and owns a hotel in Southern Brazil called the Palladium Executive
• Has modeled for brands like Christian Dior, Versace, Victoria's Secret, Louis Vuitton, and numerous others
• Best known as a fashion model and for her role as Vanessa in "Taxi" and as Serena in "The Devil Wears Prada․"
• In her youth, she wanted to be a professional volleyball player and considered playing for the Brazilian national team