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[michelabella]

this says Gisele was a trending topic in the US on Jan 21 (I guess after Tom lost)

http://en.trending-t...s/topic-Gisele/

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

in news, on facebook or twitter or where ?

[michelabella]

twitter ^

So she trended worldwide in 2010 when appearing on the catwalk for the first time after having Benjamin

She was the top retweeted person for the Met Gala 2012.

and she trended worldwide after giving birth to Vivian.

and she trends in Brazil often.

and this time after Tom's game.

did you grab anymore screen caps?

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

noo most of the time I'm not online when she trends maybe it's cuz of time zone, trends change really fast!

if my memory serves me correct she was trending after Alexander Wang show in 2012, wasn't she ?

[michelabella]

yeah same Im not always on when I've read she trended..

oh did she? I wouldnt doubt it. Twitter was going insane when she unexpectedly showed up to A Wang. I retweeted more than 50 tweets. Seems having babies and returning to runways are hot topics concerning Gisele.

She trended after the Superbowl and breastfeeding controversies as well. lol.

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

haha that's why I doubt she was trending after Wang show, remember how insane twitter went

[gustavsson]

People.com and other sources are reporting Gisele and Tom completed they mansion, I thought it was finished a few months ago?

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

maybe it wasn't done inside, remember seeing pic of the house quite a long time ago and it was built and everything.but maybe they still have to do it inside, plus furniture and everything, you know celebs

[michelabella]

same gustavo dont know the big news here. They lived there during the off season in 2012 and everything.

I remember some ice cream shop tweeted about catering to their LA home for their anniversary last year.

I think Gisele likes it for privacy (she has all the amenities she would never even have to leave her house )

she wasn't papped one time while living in LA whereas in NY or Boston they hound the Brady's. I bet we will see seldom pap pics when they live in their new home.

I cant believe photogs are flying from an aerial view taking pics of their new home. Those stalkers cant pap it on foot as Im sure its very secure.

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

but they're flying with helicopters and they make noise, so they can hear it and don't go out

wonder where she's now, still in NY ?

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

twitter ^

So she trended worldwide in 2010 when appearing on the catwalk for the first time after having Benjamin

She was the top retweeted person for the Met Gala 2012.

and she trended worldwide after giving birth to Vivian.

and she trends in Brazil often.

and this time after Tom's game.

did you grab anymore screen caps?

[michelabella]

Sick do you mean Boston? they dont live in NY anymore.

We have no idea where she is! theres no sightings, nada. we cant go by facebook because she/they post old pics all the time. (although in the latest one I do think she looks a little thicker...) if its new that would mean she's in Costa Rica. which would be plausible since they always go there after football season.

I dont think theyre in Boston anymore. Probably LA or Costa Rica.

[gustavsson]

I'll bet Costa Rica

I remember I screencaped when she trended worldwide, but can't seem to find the picture

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

Sick do you mean Boston? they dont live in NY anymore.

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

loved Karl's words about Gi :wub2:

Gisele Bündchen for Chanel Beauty SS 2013 Campaign by Mario Testino

Glamurama Brazil [translated]:

News backstage. Before being chosen the new face of Chanel Beauty , Gisele Bündchen almost lost his métier to Rihanna. The singer was one of the celebrities listed by brothers Gerard and Pierre Wertheimer, owners of the French maison, to star in the campaign, simply because they charge a fee considerably lower than the Brazilian.

Although the numbers of contracts are guarded, subject matter experts estimate that Gisele earned at least $ 4 million to transfer [her] image to Chanel for the next six months. Rihanna, it seems, would have done the same job for half the value.

Who has the final say by choosing the supermodel was Karl Lagerfeld, who managed to convince Wertheimer explaining that Gisele is a "fashion icon bigger" and therefore more like a brand.

[gustavsson]

Nothing but the truth! Thank you sick

[michelabella]

random...Gisele will interview model Kiara Kabukuru in the upcoming CR Fashion book #2

http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/carine-en-pointe-6712483?src=twitter

[gustavsson]

Never heard from her before, looking forward to the interview though

[michelabella]

@CRFASHIONBOOK

From the new issue: @giseleofficial interviews legendary supermodel Kiara Kabukuru: http://bit.ly/Z6dMDc @Bruce_Weber @Dior @IMGModels

KIARA KABUKURU

The supermodel emerged from a near-fatal accident with her priorities sharpened and her life affirmed

Photography Bruce Weber

Interview Gisele Bündchen

Introduction Dominic Teja Sidhu

After a meeting with Tom Ford in the late ’90s catalyzed her rise to the top of the industry, the supermodel and muse Kiara Kabukuru ruled as one of the most highly sought after faces of the decade. From the beginning, she brought forth a new kind of persona: full of wildness and mercurial intensity, pure impulse inflected with an immaculate edge. She represented an effortless convergence of grace, sex, and nature—and as a result found astounding success. Then, at the height of her career, Kiara experienced a reversal of fortune when in the spring of 2000 she was run over by an 18-wheeler—a devastating, near-death experience that set her on a trajectory of awakening. Now fully recovered and with a new depth, she is returning to fashion and setting her sights on film.

Kiara was born Alice Kabukuru, in Kampala, Uganda, at a time of pronounced political unrest, to Moses Kabukuru, a 30-year-old self-made entrepreneur, and Erinah Kasabiti, a teenage country girl and one of the oldest of 16 siblings. Moses, the son of struggling cattle farmers, was impassioned about leaving the village and as a young man took a job as a janitor at Makere University, a prestigious tech school. He educated himself by listening in on classes and soon established a string of small businesses: first a rubber stamp company, then a car rental, then a dry cleaner. He ultimately acquired a lucrative printing press, called Sun- rise, and within a decade had amassed a personal wealth equivalent to one million U.S. dollars—at the time a veritable fortune—establishing himself as one of Uganda’s wealthiest men.

Moses had been funding the National Resistance Movement, a rebel group he believed could one day seize power and stabilize Uganda. As the country’s political unrest escalated, the entire family, including 6-year-old Alice, was put on an active wanted-dead list. The Sunrise Press was burned to the ground, all of the family’s money was seized, and Moses’s brother Gouma was killed. The Kabukurus went from a life of war-torn Technicolor opulence to one of complete vulnerability. Moses and Erinah managed to flee the country1 by hiding in the stew- ard unit of an airplane headed for London, and then they emigrated to Los Angeles. Alice and her siblings were smuggled into Kenya and lived in hiding there for a year. Eventually, with the help of Amnesty International, a friend in the U.N., and a church in Granada Hills, the siblings escaped to London and were later reunited with their parents, in California. “We boarded the plane in the morning in Kampala and it was still day when we got to London,” says Kiara. “I remember feeling like I stepped out of color and into a black-and-white world. When we arrived in Los Angeles, the night finally fell.” It was in this turbulence of civic and personal chaos, with the imminence of mortality and the lack of solid ground or the gravity of home, that Alice was confirmed.

Finding herself in the strange-land of America, teenage Alice support- ed herself with odd jobs like babysitting, braiding hair, and cleaning the local church. At 16 she was approached by photographer Bill Bodwell, who asked if she might consider modeling. For about a year Bodwell photographed her every week, sending her to all the local agencies, and she was eventually signed by Nina Blanchard. Alice was renamed Kiara, and she quickly landed a Coca-Cola commercial and a high- paying Clinique ad job that would sustain her for the next several years. At the behest of a new agent she flew to London to walk in a Gucci charity show, where she met Tom Ford. He immediately cast her as a face of Gucci with an exclusive contract. Soon after, she landed on the cover of American Vogue and was featured on the runways of John Galliano, Versace, Calvin Klein, Alexander McQueen, and Chanel. She secured a coveted beauty contract with L’Oréal. And she was an editorial star, posing regularly for the foremost photographers of the time. Her success was unencumbered—until the accident that shifted the course of her life. Now, after a complete and life-affirming recovery, she speaks with friend Gisele Bündchen about the resilience of the body and the possibility of character.

GISELE BŰNDCHEN We have been friends for 16 years now—like half of my life—and I remember when you had your accident and I arrived to the hospital bracing myself for the devastation. And I will never forget you sitting up in your bed smiling with all your front teeth missing, and I thought to myself only you would have this reaction. I really feel this accident became a portal for you into yourself.

KK I remember feeling grateful. I really thought it was the end, and when it wasn’t I felt really lucky to be alive. It also gave me access to all the hurt I was carrying. I was surprised to find that I was upset about my childhood, which was filled with the violence of war and of the domestic variety. And you know me, I am not a big crier, but I cried for months. Maybe it’s my inquisitiveness and fascination with the psyche, but I chose to get to the bottom of it, and at times I felt so lost having dug all this stuff up. But something kept me going, I believe my faith that I would find my purpose through this mining.

GB And you look amazing. You would never know you had an accident. You have no scars and I think you look better then ever.

KK The physical healing was nothing short of miraculous.

GB Do you feel you now know your purpose?

KK I believe my purpose is forgiveness and unconditional love, to tran- scend all these traumatic events in my life. No matter what I’m doing, the question is always, How can I be unconditional love in this moment.

GB And what does that mean for you?

KK Well, first it starts with forgiveness and unconditional love for my- self. So when I hear a discouraging voice pop into my head, I send it love, because I believe everything wants to be loved and accepted, and the more I can do it for myself, the more I can do it in the world. Film for me is a powerful medium for this. And acting allows you to live in all these different points of view, some that may be the complete opposite of your own, and to really go there I think you must suspend judgment while you linger in character. After that you find the humanity in anyone.

GB I know a few years ago you went back to Uganda to document your family history. What was it like now, as an adult?

KK That trip was sensory overload for me. I learned that my great- grandfather chose to die of starvation, letting my great-grandmother and grandfather have the little food they had. This was the time of the 50-year famine. My grandfather then went on to have 16 children. I have 60 first cousins on my mom’s side, and my grandfather is 113 this year. So my great-grandfather’s sacrifice affected a lot of people. The most important thing I took away from that was how many people lived, died, struggled, sacrificed, and hustled for me to be here. I left feeling very lucky.

GB What’s the name of your tribe?

KK The Banyankole. It’s a nomadic tribe of cattle herders that have settled the length of the Nile. The Tutsi and Masai are also part of the original bloodline.

GB Wow, so cool! One day I want to come visit you there.

KK You are most welcome. You will be received by dancing villagers. It’s kind of like Brazil in that everything is always on the verge of erupting into a big dance party. Life there is like a dance.

GB Sometimes it’s a like a samba, and other times like a slow dance.

KK Sometimes a rave, and sometimes a two-step.

Above: Kiara wears Dress and shorts DIOR

http://crfashionbook...-emerged-from-a