General Discussion

[michelabella]

maybe they did or could be the angle (her face can change dramatically by the angle she is shot at) weird because they left her pores and freckles.

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

nope,I'm pretty sure that's not the angle,that's the photoshop we've seen many pics from the same angles but there's nothing like that

hmm I love her nose,why did the photoshoped

[Jennka]

It would not make any sense to photoshop her nose. She is a household name - thanks to that nose too - so I just can´t imagine such thing.

[michelabella]

agree, her nose is her signature and helped make her, not hinder her. Makes no sense but oh well.

This isn't new but was never posted.

Men's Health Hottest Women of All-Time Gisele Bundchen #25

http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/hottest-women-all-time

(I think they're mostly counting iconic women on the list or who really made an impact on pop culture, well minus a few )

[Sweet Lu]

Dear Giselle,

I am writing to ask you a few favors as the Patriots (that is the team your husband plays for) head to the SuperBowl:

If you could do to Tom what you did before the Denver playoff game, that would be perfect.

If you could never ever do what you did before the Baltimore playoff game though, under any circumstances.

And if you could make sure Tom's balls are securely in place before the game, it would be greatly appreciated.

Once we win, you can dress him in any wimpy outfit you want and spruce up his hair in any ridiculous style you want.

Thank you in advance for your co-operation.

A Pats fan

[Jennka]

[Sweet Lu]

Thanks jenn. Glad you liked it.

[michelabella]

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley came to Brazil to parade in Sao Paulo Fashion Week exclusively for the brand "animale." In an interview with the newspaper "O Globo", broadcast on Sunday (29), said that the model is inspired by the Brazilian top model Gisele Bundchen. "Gisele is the goddess of all models. She is a sexy image, her career is so complete, thats what I always look at it when I need some guidance or inspiration, "she said.

http://revistaquem.globo.com/Revista/Quem/...AS+MODELOS.html

Go Rosie

[michelabella]

A new interview she gave while in Kenya

Gisele Bundchen: Supermodel who makes a difference

Monday Jan 30 2012

In a rare, emotionally charged interview, Gisele Bundchen talks to Kate Whiting about her views on life, motherhood and wanting to make the world a better place

With barely a scrap of make-up on her perfect cheekbones, hair twisted loosely into a plait and dressed simply in skinny jeans and T-shirt, Gisele Bundchen is beauty personified.

Which is why she stands out so sharply against the all-pervading mud, mounds of rubbish and rusting corrugated iron of one of East Africa's biggest slums.

The Brazilian supermodel is not in Kenya's poverty-stricken Kibera for the latest quirky fashion shoot. Instead she's here to poke her head into a toilet block that's revolutionising life for the slum's estimated one million dwellers.

Bundchen, the world's highest earning model, who is one half of the US equivalent of Posh and Becks with her American football-playing husband, Tom Brady, has come to Nairobi with UK charity Practical Action to see how it is tackling energy poverty by building biogas centres, which turn human waste into gas for cooking, saving the residents money and replacing unhygienic flying toilets' (plastic bags thrown into the street).

Like any new mum ” her son, Ben, was born in 2009 ” she's drawn to the children who play and pose with her for pictures among the grime and plastic bags.

I just want to take them all and love them, she says, in her gentle Portuguese accent.

Bundchen's not here because it will boost her image, and she's not just here because she's also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Environment Programme, or that come June, all eyes will be fixed on her home country for the Rio +20 summit on sustainable development.

She's here because she cares deeply about the world. So deeply, in fact, that when we sit down to talk in the tranquil gardens of her Nairobi hotel, tears brim in her blue eyes.

It's unlike anything I've ever seen before, my whole perspective of the world is changing,she says.

I always try to put myself in their situation and think how would it be if that was my life, what if I were born under those circumstances and had no access to the basic needs of survival?

Even though I'm from Brazil and we do have poverty, to actually go into people's houses and experience that, is heartbreaking. But it's also heart-opening, and I feel there is so much I have to do.

The 31-year-old already does more than her fair share of good. She has her own charitable foundation, Luz, which means light in Portuguese, and every year she chooses a charity to receive the proceeds from her iPANEMA flip-flop range.

She sweetly refers to this as "my own little ant work, but the truth is, she's been working on environmental and female empowerment projects for almost eight years.

Growing up in the Brazilian countryside taught her to love and respect nature, and she says: It's a place where I can find my centre very fast.

A week spent with native Amazon Indians whose children were getting sick from pesticides, opened her eyes to the fine balance between man and the environment, and sent her back to the grassroots, cleaning up the water system of her small hometown, Horizontina.

When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you. There is always that sense that, ˜I'm so small, what can I do?' but then you have to start somewhere, so I opened the Luz Foundation in 2007, to bring more light into the world and I created a place where I can donate a percentage of my money to help with different projects that came along.

The new face of Versace, Bundchen sees each modelling job as a way to use her looks to help others.

My life is devoted to this, she says.

I know from the outside, people think this girl just poses for pictures, but in my head, all I'm thinking the whole time is, ˜Ok, if I take this job then I can have more money to put in to this action', so that's what I'm doing because that's the form that God gave me to do what I can do, right?

Grounded is the word for Bundchen, though quite how she's stayed this way, when her face, and tall, slender figure, have become famous around the globe, making her a millionaire, is something of a mystery.

I'm so blessed, my parents have been married for 40 years, so having that grounding was very healthy, that's how I was raised, she says.

And I have five sisters [including twin Patricia who joins her in Kenya], which I think helps me a lot too because they're all so different and they're all my best friends and they always tell me the truth, no matter what.

Another thing that was huge in my life was leaving home at 13 and having my parents trust me and I never wanted to disappoint them, I wanted to make them feel proud.

By 14, Bundchen was living in Tokyo for

three months, then she lived in New York from 16 and has stayed in the States ever since.

Everything that was happening in my life, every action had a consequence, and I had to deal with that consequence, so getting out and seeing the world helped to shape me.

Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.

They gave me the strength to go and see the world and experience so much and also to be very ballsy and make my big mistakes that I've made in my life. I've made a few,she laughs.

When you go through challenges and you overcome them, you realise that you're so much stronger than you thought you were and when you're so young and you don't have your parents right there to protect you, that makes you grow up and it makes you search for something bigger to support you when you're not with your family and for me that was finding different tools.

Bundchen's ˜tools' are her philosophy of life. Raised a Catholic by her parents, she read about Buddhism in Japan, which gave her a sense that we're all connected.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me too. Imagine if everybody had enough? she muses.

She also admires Mahatma Gandhi's doctrine of ˜being the change you want to see in the world'.

Motherhood has reinforced her desire to help others.

My son is so fortunate, you know. He's always going to have food. Yes, my children are going to be privileged, but that's why it's so important for them to see different realities and to travel, and they do already.

Bundchen's husband Brady also has a four-year-old son, John, and the family split their time between Boston, where he plays for the New England Patriots, the house they're building in LA and a home in Costa Rica.

My kids play with the kids there who live in houses the same size as we saw in Kibera, maybe not in the middle of sewage, she says.

Costa Rica also holds the key, in part, to how Bundchen manages to stay so beautiful on the outside (as well as on the inside).

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And everytime I eat, I bless my food, I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

She says it helps to be mindful of her diet, but admits to having a sweet tooth. I'm human, I like ice cream, it tastes really good, but what can we do, right?

And as for exercise, it's a mixture of kung fu and yoga, mostly for their meditative effects.

I don't do asanas [yoga poses] all the time, sometimes I just do mantras, because yoga for me is a philosophy, it's another tool to help you go inward, because my whole mission in life is just to keep going inward.

The world always takes you out here and my focus, whatever it is I'm doing, is to have tools to bring me back inward.

While us mere mortals can only dream of a lifestyle ” and complexion ” like Bundchen's, we can at least try to emulate her charity work.

Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else, I don't care how busy they are,she insists.

I know they do, because I do and I'm pretty busy. Every ... single ... moment ... every one of us can make a difference, and you don't need to be wealthy for that.

For more information about the work of Practical Action in Kenya and around the world, visit practicalaction.org

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/woman/li...e-16110819.html

[Jennka]

Thanks jenn. Glad you liked it.

It was funny

[michelabella]

This article is about Cindy Crawford but Gisele gets a shout out as well by Makeup Artist Brigitte Reiss Anderson.

However, I remember this trip so well because Cindy made a move that to this day represents for me a historic moment in fashion history. What did she do? Well, unlike most models of the time she did not make daily calls to a rock star, male model or photographer boyfriend. She called her financial adviser to get reports and make informed decisions about her future. I was absolutely flabbergasted!!! Most models I knew didnt care too much about their finances and innocently handed matters of such kind to more or less honest advisors that often included freeloading boyfriends.

With that one move, Cindy made me sense that the balance of power had shifted and a new kind of model had arrived, the real pro whos in charge of her career: the supermodel! Cindy was also the first young model I knew to actually have a philosophy about her work and a deep understanding of the fashion business and its requirements. Christy Turlington and Gisele are very similar in their professional approach.

http://fashionfortheface.com/?p=1877

[michelabella]

75 Most Iconic Hairstyles of All Time

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Gisele Bundchen, 2005

"Long layers all around, piece-y ends, and slight layering next to her face create sexy, just-rolled-out-of-bed hair," says John Frieda hairstylist Harry Josh, who cuts Bündchen's mane.

http://www.redbookmag.com/beauty-fashion/t...rity-hairstyles

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

it suits her the best imho

[Chocolate]

hehe that's Gi!

[michelabella]

compiled some more quotes about Gisele that have never been posted before.

"Besides the beauty, her personality is strong, full of life and at the same time supersensitive". Nicholas Ghesquiere, Balenciaga's designer

"She is extremely intelligent,professional and determined. Gisele knows how to show the best in each item of clothing, and this is what makes her different from other models." Nick Knight, photographer

"I love her energy,joy of life and positivity." Steven Meisel, photographer

"Gisele is totally illuminated and it comes from within. In a sea of people she lights up the environment not only because she is beautiful, but because she is warm hearted, good humored, and has a lot of self esteem." Michael Kors, designer

"What impressed me most in her was not only her beauty, but her personality. Extraordinary. So full of positive energy with a strong will and determination." Angela Missoni, owner of MISSONI

"Besides being a celebrity, Gisele is a world fashion icon. Her notorious sensuality will give a boost to the new collection which, just like Gisele, is also very sensual." Marc Jacobs on choosing Gisele for Louis Vuitton in 2006

"Gisele has managed to achieve a certain distinction. She is kind and nice to people. She never became a diva. She is one of the most empathetic celebrities toward the public." Wagner Lungov, Nivea's business director

"Her sexy look is what makes her different from others." Michael Roberts fashion and style director of Vanity Fair

"I see many beautiful girls in the world of fashion but few of them have the absolute beauty of Gisele. She is perfect. She has a perfect tushy,perfect hair,waistline...even the fingers are beautiful." Mario Testino

"Gisele? Most beautiful. She has the most perfect body in the world." Giorgio Armani

"The key to her success, I think , is that she was and she has always been mainly Gisele. a happy Brazilian woman, physically vibrant, with long hair, sparkling eyes, freckles and a nose, totally her own nose. Her body continues to be athletic and with curvy lines (by the fashion standards) but the most important thing is that her personality is always winning." Anna Wintour

"She is a wonderful woman both inside and outside. Gisele with her optimism and her way of being so cheerful is a true hymn to life." Fabio Crovi director of MUSE magazine

"We have settled on Gisele again because she is a model and a celebrity and she is very special as well. She interprets clothes better than anyone else. It's not only a question of beauty but a question of character." Eva Cavalli wife of designer Roberto Cavalli

"She is the ideal model for Versace because she makes the clothes come to life the way I want them to look. Sexy and strong." Donatella Versace

"She hasn't done a show in New York for over ten years. I've been a fan of hers since day 1. I was in high school collecting all her magazine covers. I think that there is an energy about her that really exudes past her physical looks. She just brings so much energy to a room, a picture. When you see her even without saying anything just such a great great model at that. She's so humble, so down to earth. I love her." Alexander Wang 2012

[Chocolate]

Is there anyone who is someone who said smth less then great about Gisele?

[michelabella]

@shewgal

Riding my bike. Approach an adorable looking couple from the backside, insert jealousy, oh wait, it's giselle & Tom Brady. I ride into ocean

walking on the path with there lovechild frolicking in the sand.. Pure perfection and I steered my bike into the ocean aftr

[michelabella]

some more for you choc. Love what the 90s Supermodels say about her. Wonder what Cindy,Linda think?

"In order to become a supermodel one must be on all the covers all over the world at the same time so that people can recognise the girls. Miss Schiffer believes the Brazilian Gisele Bundchen is one of the few women to have supermodel status today.

"Her face is well known, her name is recognised - but no other girl occurs to me that people in the street would recognise". - Claudia Schiffer in 2007

"Models need to earn their stripes - I just think the term is used a little too loosely. "Kate Moss is obviously a supermodel but, after Gisele, I don't think there's been one." - Naomi Campbell

"There are no Supermodels left today, except for one. She is of course, Gisele Bundchen." Naomi Campbell

but does she buy into the modern lament that supermodels no longer exist? "I don't know." She gives a diplomatic wag of the head. "Maybe there haven't been that many at any one time again, but just think of Gisele and Daria [Werbowy]. And look at Kate [Moss]. - Christy Turlington

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

loved Naomi's words