Gisele Caroline Bündchen (born July 20, 1980) is a Brazilian model. She has been one of the world’s highest-paid models since 2001. Bündchen was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment sector in 2007, and she topped Forbes’ list of top-earning models in 2012. Forbes ranked her as the 89th most influential woman in the world in 2014.
In 1999, Vogue lauded Bündchen with putting an end to the heroin chic period of modeling. From 1999 through 2006, Bündchen was a Victoria’s Secret Angel. She is credited for popularizing the horse walk, a stomping action generated by a model raising her knees and kicking her feet to stride. Claudia Schiffer referred to Bündchen as the last remaining supermodel in 2007. Bündchen has graced nearly 1,200 magazine covers.
At the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, Bündchen was nominated for Choice Movie Female Breakout Star and Choice Movie Villain for her supporting performance in Taxi (2004). She appeared in the Emmy Award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously in the episode “Fueling the Fire” in 2016. 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, from 2010 to 2011. Save the Children, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders are among Bündchen’s charity organizations. Since 2009, she has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program.
