Gisele Caroline Bündchen was born 20 July 1980, she is a Brazilian fashion model and occasional film actress. She is the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme. In the late 1990s, Bündchen became the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find international 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. Bündchen was one of Victoria's Secret Angels from 2000 until mid-2007. Since 2004, she has been the highest-paid model in the world and since 2007 the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment industry with an estimated $150 million fortune.

Models Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell have stated that Bündchen is the only true remaining "supermodel" and according to Forbes she may become the world's first ever billionaire supermodel. As an occasional actress, she had supporting roles in Taxi (2004) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006). From 2000 to 2005, Bündchen had a much-publicized relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2009 she married New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. In December 2009, Bündchen gave birth to a boy in Boston, named Benjamin Rein Brady. Now in 2012, she is pregnant with her second baby.

In Spring 2012, she won three major spring campaigns – Versace, Givenchy, and Salvatore Ferragamo.

In early 2012, it was announced that she would be the face of Banco do Brasil's first global ad campaign with the tagline "Bank of Brazil. From Brazil to the world. From the world to Brazil."

April 2012 Time Magazine listed her among their All-TIME 100 Fashion Icons list of the 100 most influential fashion icons since 1923

She was ranked #61 on Forbe's Most Powerful Celebrities list in 2012.

May 2012 she was ranked the 4th place on the World's Most Powerful Latino Celebrity by Forbes.