Monday 18 July 2011

Gisele Bundchen

Brazilian Supermodel and Actress

Profile
Popular name             Gisele Bundchen
Birth name                  Gisele Caroline Bündchen
Birth date                   July 20, 1980
Birth place                  Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Height                        1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Hair color                   Brown
Eye color                    Blue-Green
Measurements            35-23-35.5 (89-59-90)
Weight                       57 kg (130 lb; 9.0 st)
Dress size                   34 EU/4 US/6 UK
Spouse                       Tom Brady (2009-present) 1 child


Life and Career
Gisele is a supermodel beauty. Gisele, raised in Horizontina, a small town of less then 20,000 people located in the southern part of Brazil. With six daughters in the family, her five other sisters are all natural phenomenons. Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Patricia, and Rafaela are all aspiring models


She appeared on the cover of Vogue in July, November and December 1999. She won the VH1/Vogue Model of the Year for 1999, and a January 2000 cover gave her three consecutive Vogue covers and in December 2009 she appeared alongside of her husband Tom Brady on the cover of book The World in Vogue – People, Parties, Places. In 2000, she became the fourth model to appear on the cover of the music magazine Rolling Stone, when she was named "the most beautiful girl in the world." Bündchen has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including W, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, Allure, international editions of Vogue, as well as style and lifestyle publications such as i-D, The Face, Arena, Citizen K, Flair, GQ, Esquire, and Marie Claire. She has been featured both in the Pirelli Calendar 2001 and 2006[ and in broader market publications such as Time, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Newsweek and Veja, more than 500 magazine covers throughout the world.


Acting career
In 2004, Bündchen played the bank robbers' leader, Vanessa, in the 2004 remake Taxi. In 2006, she played a minor character in The Devil Wears Prada. She was also a cameo in the famous Apple, Get a Mac, campaign opposite Justin Long and John Hodgeman as a Mac iMovie.