Gisele Bündchen
Brazilian fashion model (born 1980)
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- Gisele Caroline Bündchen ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiˈzɛli ˈbĩtʃẽ] , German: [ˈbʏntçn̩] ; born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian supermodel and activist.
- In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes highest-paid models list from 2005 to 2016.
- Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999.
- Bündchen is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement where a model lifts her knees high and kicks her feet to step.
- She has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers.
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WikipediaGisele Caroline Bündchen (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiˈzɛli ˈbĩtʃẽ], German: [ˈbʏntçn̩]; born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian supermodel and activist. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes highest-paid models list from 2005 to 2016. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th most powerful woman in Media and Entertainment by Forbes.
Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. Bündchen is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement where a model lifts her knees high and kicks her feet to step. In 2007, Basia Kolen called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel. She has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers.
Bündchen was nominated for Choice Movie Female Breakout Star and for Choice Movie Villain at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards for her supporting role in Taxi (2004). She had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and was the executive producer of an educational environmental cartoon, Gisele & the Green Team, in 2010 to 2011. In 2016, Bündchen appeared in the Emmy Award–winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, in the episode "Fueling the Fire". Her charitable endeavors include Save the Children, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders. Bündchen has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program since 2009.
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