2.2 2000–2009: Modeling breakthrough, international success, and acting debut.She has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program since 2009. īündchen's charitable endeavors include Save the Children, Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. In 2016, she appeared in the Emmy award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, in the episode 'Fueling the Fire'. She had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and was the executive producer of an educational environmental cartoon, Gisele & the Green Team, in 2010 to 2011. īündchen was nominated for Choice Movie Female Breakout Star and for Choice Movie Villain at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards for her supporting role in Taxi (2004). Bündchen has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers. In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel.

She is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model lifting her knees high and kicking her feet to step. Bündchen was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999. In 2014, Bündchen was listed as the 89th Most Powerful Woman in the World by Forbes. In 2007, she was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes top-earning models list in 2012. Since 2001, Bündchen has been one of the highest-paid models in the world.

Gisele Caroline Bündchen ( Brazilian Portuguese:, German:, born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian model, activist, and businesswoman.

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