Gisele Bündchen Net worth: $400 million
Gisele Bündchen has an estimated net worth of $400 million. The Brazilian fashion model is one of the highest paid models in the world. She has an impressive and extensive career in the modelling industry.
Gisele Bündchen Biography
Gisele Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model who was born on July 20, 1980. She has been one of the world’s highest-paid models since 2001.
Bündchen was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry in 2007, and she topped Forbes’ list of top-earning models in 2012. Forbes ranked her as the 89th most powerful woman in the world in 2014.
In 1999, Vogue credited Bündchen with putting an end to the heroin chic era of modeling. From 1999 to 2006, Bündchen was a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
She is credited with popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model raising her knees and kicking her feet to step.
Claudia Schiffer referred to Bündchen as the last remaining supermodel in 2007. Bündchen has graced over 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 role in Taxi (2004).
She had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and was the executive producer of Gisele & the Green Team, an educational environmental cartoon, from 2010 to 2011.
She appeared in the episode “Fueling the Fire” of the Emmy-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously in 2016.
Save the Children, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders are among Bündchen’s charitable organizations. Since 2009, she has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program.
Bündchen wanted to be a volleyball player, but her mother enrolled her and her sisters Patrcia and Gabriela in a modeling class in 1993 to teach them confidence and proper posture. Following the completion of the course, the girls were rewarded with a trip to Curitiba, So Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, where she was discovered by Elite Model Management at a shopping mall.
Bündchen finished second in the Elite Model Look national competition, which was then known as Look of the Year. Bündchen moved to So Paulo in 1995 to pursue a modeling career. In 1996, she made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week.
