Gisele Bundchen
First Name: Gisele
Last Name: Bundchen
Nationality: Brazilian
Ethnicity: German
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Date of Birth: July 20 1980
Place of Birth: Três de Maio - Nova Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul
Height: 5'11" ; 180cm
Measurements: (US) 34-24-34 ; (EU) 86-61-86
Dress Size: (US) 4 ; (EU) 34
Shoe Size: (US) 7 ; (EU) 39
Agencies:
* D Management Group
* Option Model Agency
* Talents Models
* Model Management - Hamburg
* 2pm Model Management
* Action Management
* IMG Models - New York
* IMG Models - Paris
* IMG Models - London
* IMG Models - Milan
Hobbies: socialising with friends, walking her dog, making her own hybrid clothes.
Notes: - Gisele's full name is Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen.
- She is the daughter of Valdir (of German descent) and Vânia Bündchen. Gisele has three sisters: Raquel, Graziela and Rafaela. Rafaela and Gisele are twins.
- In 1993, Gisele, 13 years old, joined the Dilson Stein's mannequin course to correct her posture, with her sisters Patrícia and Gabriela, because her mother insisted. The course was for teenagers who wanted to be a model. In May 1994, Stein took 50 girls to São Paulo to give them a chance to walk in a big city and to let them be evaluated by Brazilian Elite bookers (agents). On August 20, 1993 Gisele was playing volleyball for Sogipa, in Porto Alegre. Elite "kidnapped" her and took her to a contest. Gisele came between the five finalists. Then, she went to São Paulo.
- She came second in the national Elite Look of the Year contest - Claudia Menezes, from Bahia, was the one in the first place. In the world contest, in Ibiza, Gisele came in fourth.
- Gisèle appeared in the 2001 and 2006 Pirelli calendar.
- She won the 1999 Vogue/VH1 Model of the Year Award and has been named "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by Rolling Stone. She has also hosted the VH1 Fashion Awards and appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
- Gisele has a belly button piercing and a star tattoo on her left wrist.
- Gisele has a dog named Vida.
- Her homes include an house in New York, an apartment in Manhattan’s Tribeca district and a house near Woodstock, NY.
- Gisele's debut as an actress came in the 2004 movie 'Taxi'.
- She speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (her native language).
- Gisele is FMD's "model of the month November 2005"