Gisele Bündchen is a world-renowned Brazilian supermodel, successful entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Throughout the 2000s, she ranked as the highest-paid model in the world. She is primarily credited with bringing back the "supermodel era" to the fashion world. She was born in Brazil into a middle-class family of German descent; her father was a university professor and her mother was a bank clerk. Gisele has five sisters, including a twin sister (Patricia).
