Gisele Caroline Bündchen (
born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian model,
occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment
Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian
models to find success. In 1999, Vogue magazine dubbed her "The Return of the Sexy Model" and
she was credited with ending the "heroin
chic" era of modeling.
