From alcohol and DiCaprio to healthy lifestyle and meditation: the story of model Gisele Bundchen
'24.07.2020'
Source: Newspaper.ru
One of the highest paid models in the world became a supporter of a healthy lifestyle many years ago and believes that quitting tobacco, alcohol, sugar and coffee helped her cope with panic attacks. How Giselle keeps her body and mind healthy, says Newspaper.ru.
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is 40 years old: having once won her place on the podium with her characteristic “stomping” gait, today she is the pride of her country and an active fighter for the preservation of the environment. And also - a guru of a healthy lifestyle, the benefits of which are difficult to deny looking at her photos.
In 1999, Giselle became a sensation in the modeling business - it was then that fashion magazines proclaimed that a healthy body and skin with a slight tan became relevant again after several years of "heroin chic" and androgynous figures of girls and boys.
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With her body proportions (the ratio of chest, waist and hips is 36-24-35), Gisele Bundchen quickly made her career. She was 13 when, together with two of her five sisters, Giselle began to go to a model school (at the insistence of her mother, she wanted the girl to improve her posture).
At the age of 14, Giselle took second place in the Elite Model Look competition in Sao Paulo. At 20, she already signed a contract with the Victoria's Secret lingerie brand to become one of the highest paid models in the world in a year.
However, in 2004, the realization came to her that she did not live correctly - despite a dizzying career. By that time, she had already appeared on the covers of Vogue more than 70 times in different countries, signed another contract with Victoria's Secret for $ 25 million and dated Leonardo DiCaprio. And she suffered from monstrous panic attacks.
“When I had a panic attack, it seemed to me that I was going to die,” wrote Giselle in her book Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life, published in 2018. - I was scared. I couldn't breathe. And I realized that I create it myself: we create our life by our actions - and we have a choice. I chose to come to the present day, because it was the tool that I found for self-healing. ”
As Giselle told The Guardian in January of this year at the presentation of the new Dior cosmetic line in Shanghai (the model became her face), she felt bad about her lifestyle.
“I ate steak and chips every night. She also smoked, drank a bottle of wine and drank coffee in the morning. It was not good, ”Giselle recalls.
And although it does not seem like a crime, for the current Giselle things like meat, wine and coffee are the reason for feeling unwell: “I had mood swings, I didn’t do drugs, but I still could not sleep because I drank too much. a lot of coffee".
In 2005, Giselle broke up with Leonardo DiCaprio - her sudden break with a Hollywood actor after five years together, she explained only in 2018 in her book. As it turned out, it was in her desire for a healthy lifestyle, which Leonardo did not share.
“No longer stunning myself with smoking, alcohol and endless work, I understood better and better what things I didn’t choose for myself,” wrote Giselle. - Was I lonely in the desire to seriously seek myself, while he remained the same? In the end, unfortunately, the answer turned out to be yes.
Now Gisele Bundchen is married to famous American football player Tom Brady - they got married in 2009 and are raising two children: 10-year-old Benjamin and 7-year-old Vivienne. Giselle has become a mindfulness guru, an apologist for transcendental meditation, and an environmentalist.
Giselle's health helps maintain her diet, exercise and meditation.
She does not say that she is on a diet, but has long given up tobacco, alcohol and sugar, rarely eats meat and dairy products, and mostly eats plant foods. Physical activity is yoga, but not only yoga: Gisele Bundchen is engaged in high-intensity workouts that MMA fighters go through, with elements of boxing and kickboxing.
On her 40th birthday, Giselle promised Instagram subscribers not to throw a luxurious party, but to plant XNUMX thousand trees. Giselle posted on a social network a picture in which she plants trees with her husband and children to save the Amazon forests, and urged subscribers to make donations to an organization restoring the number of trees.
