The iconic supermodel, now 34, took to Instagram on Wednesday to share her first runway pic of herself at 14 years old. Gisele is undoubtedly feeling nostalgic, confirming that after two decades, she's ready to hang up her famous runway walk for good.
Her husband, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and their two children -- five-year-old Benjamin and two-year-old Vivian -- are expected to attend the milestone event.
The choice of runway is especially fitting given Gisele's Brazilian heritage, and her longtime relationship with the Brazilian fashion brand. These days, she's known for her healthy lifestyle, but it wasn't always this way. The pressure soon became too much and she started to experience panic attacks — and her lifestyle didn't help. I was drinking a bottle of wine and smoking cigarettes and having a mocha cappuccino for breakfast," she recalled.
She finally realized she needed to make a change when she was 24, when she reached her lowest point — as she confessed, she once considered harming herself. This was largely thanks to her relationship with superstar Leonardo DiCaprio. According to The Sun , the pair dated from to However, the relationship was definitely a pretty rocky one. As W revealed in , they broke up at least once. There's nothing else to say.
Then a few years later, there were rumors of marriage. In her memoir Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life , she explained that as she cleaned up her lifestyle, she began to notice that DiCaprio wasn't keen on doing the same. As Love reported, she even has a tendency to quote Buddhist texts in everyday conversation. It brings a sense of peace to my day. I could have continued maybe three or five more years there, but I felt like I had done that chapter. When you say no to something, you say yes to something else.
Is that something you do? Our mind wants to hold onto things. Like the news comes up, and you hold onto that idea, that thought, and then you go down this rabbit hole of emotions about that thing that was just presented to you. You can be listening to hot rock metal or you can be listening to soft rock or hip-hop.
There is a frequency of fear, it paralyzes you. That vibration of fear brings lots of different emotions, brings anger, brings sadness, brings insecurity, brings all that stuff, because it vibrates at that lower vibration. Are you following the MeToo movement in fashion? I was just wondering your perspective on it as a model. When you think of the big scope of things, women are not necessarily the most supportive of other women. Tell me about the charity supported by the book and what young people can do to be better activists for the environment.
We are floating in space on this blue dot called Earth, and everything in our survival depends on our natural resources. Natural resources are finite.
Buy bottled water and keep putting plastic [into the ocean] and killing off the rest of the sea life we have? The idea is, use what we learned in the Agua Limpa project , and do it with the Jacqui [River in Brazil]. I want to give percent of the proceeds to fund the project. The first one I funded personally; it was 18 kilometers and took four years to do. This one is kilometers and obviously I cannot do kilometers by myself, so really I need the support of anyone I can get.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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