Celebs

Gisele reminds us that she, too, was once a no one

But she’s just so grateful her career was “pretty fun.’’

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By Bryanna Cappadona @brycappa

November 4, 2015

1 minute to read

Gisele Bundchen is a loving mother, proud wife, rich supermodel, and now, as of this month, the woman behind a $700 coffee table book. What a time to be alive!

Bundchen sat down with M2M, a fashion network that airs exclusively on Apple TV, to promote that latest endeavor. In video snippets of the full conversation to come, Bundchen discussed a time, some 20 years ago, when she wasn’t fashion’s “it girl.’’

Bundchen said that, before her big break in Alexander McQueen’s rain show in 1998, models were “really different’’ than she was.

“People would look at my [portfolio], but they wouldn’t even look at my pictures,’’ she said in the video. “They look at me, and I wasn’t what they wanted. I wasn’t androgynous, I wasn’t that.’’

But “the modeling thing was just something that happened,’’ she said. “I was 5’11 at 14 years old, so that was pretty awkward. I didn’t feel comfortable with myself, I was always trying to hide. I was taller than anyone. From there they asked me if I wanted to be a model, and I just thought, ‘You know, maybe I should give it a try. I’m 14, I’m from a small town.’ I wanted to do something that I could contribute and help my family, and here I am 20 years later. Can you believe that?’’

I mean, really. Can you? Can you believe it?

In second teaser video, Bundchen added, “It’s been a pretty fun ride the last 20 years. I got to take some pictures, meet pretty interesting people, and travel the world, and just experience different things in life. That’s what I do.’’

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#Blessed

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See Tom and Gisele’s Brookline house just as they do from the heavens:

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