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Gisele Bundchen
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Gisele Bundchen Biography
© DailyCeleb.com reports that Gisele Bundchen is the world's richest supermodel raking in $33 million a year.
The Brazilian beauty topped Forbes magazine's list of the 10 richest supermodels, earning almost four times more than Kate Moss, who is in second place with an annual income of $9 million.
Gisele - who turns 27 on Friday (20.07.07) - stars in almost 20 campaigns a year and was the lead model for lingerie giants Victoria's Secret.
The model was paid $5 million a year to front their catwalk shows and appear in their catalogues and advertising campaigns. However, their association ended in May of this year, after the company reportedly refused to increase her annual salary.
Gisele Bundchen also lends her name to a Brazilian shoe company.
Second-placed Kate, 33, was initially dropped from several advertising campaigns after she was photographed in 2005 apparently snorting cocaine. However, her career soon recovered from the scandal and her earnings have now rocketed following deals with Virgin Mobile, Louis Vuitton and Calvin Klein.
She was also paid $6.1 million to design her own range of clothes for British high street chain Topshop.
Victoria's Secret models Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio come third, fourth and fifth in the list with annual earnings ranging between $6 million and $8 million.
Gisele Bundchen Personal life
Gisele Bundchen enjoys spending time with her family, friends and her dog Vida (meaning "life" in Portuguese), a Yorkshire Terrier. She also had series of dating typical to a super model in show business. Her first boyfriend in the United States was model Scott Barnhill, but they dated for only six months. After Scott she was also linked with hotel tycoon Vikram Chatwal and Josh Hartnett, but she never confirmed the rumors about these two.
Bündchen's most famous romance was her on/off relationship with actor Leonardo Dicaprio. They met in 2000 and dated for five years. Bundchen accompanied Dicaprio to the 77th Annual Academy Awards where he was nominated for "Best Actor" for "The Aviator." In November 2005, they broke up.
Bündchen began dating surfer Kelly Slater soon after her breakup with Dicaprio, but the two broke up by July 2006. Bündchen was briefly linked to actor Chris Evans of Fantastic Four fame. She started to date New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady before Christmas of 2006 . The couple were first seen in public in NYC leaving Bündchen's apartment in late January and in February they were widely photographed during a trip in Europe. She was rumored to be pregnant with Tom Brady's baby, but in an interview on the Spanish television show Corazon de Primavera, Bundchen finally put an end to all of the speculation stating that, she is not pregnant.
Gisele Bundchen Worlds Richest Model
Gisele Bundchen has a new title to flaunt. Not only is she arguably the most beautiful model to ever grace a cat walk, it's apparently paid of HEAVILY. The leggy Brazilian bombshell has topped the list of Forbes.com's world's richest models, according to the AP. She currently holds Guinness World Records as the world's richest supermodel.
Starring in the latest U2 video, Leonardo DiCaprio's onetime lover leads the pack by far, with a $5 million contract for lingerie giant Victoria's Secret keeping her numbers enviable -- a far cry from the girl who used to be likened to Popeye's scrawny girlfriend Olive Oyl when in school.
The curvy 5'11" Brazilian is better known than most designer brands she works with. And coincidentally, she just turned 27 today, July 20.
Her virtually perfect looks racked up an estimated $33 million dollars this past year alone, leaving the competition in the dust. The combined earnings of second and third on the list, Kate Moss ($9 million) and Heidi Klum ($8 million) barely add up to that of the former Victoria Secrets model.
The secret to Gisele's extraordinary earnings is quite simple - campaigns, campaigns, campaigns. The model reps a multitude of high-end brands including Apple, Dolce & Gabbana and Roberto Cavalli, says Peoplemag.com. And those are just to name a few. Bundchen has amassed more endorsement contracts than any other model on the planet, says Forbes.com.
Two other Victoria's Secret models rounded up the top 5 - Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio who each made $6 million.
Here's the rest of the list. And they say pretty looks alone won't get you anywhere???
- 6. Carolyn Murphy, with $5 million
- 7. Natalia Vodianova, $4.5 million
- 8. Karolina Kurkova and Daria Werbowy, $3.5 million each
- 9. Gemma Ward, $3 million
- 10. Liya Kebede ($2.5 million)
- 11. Hilary Rhoda and Shalom Harlow, $2 million each
- 12. Doutzen Kroes and Jessica Stam, $1.5 million each
Gisele Bundchen Filmography
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