Gisele Bundchen, the true world champion

Gisele Bündchen during a photoshot for its brand of lingerie "Gisele Bündchen Intimates"

 At 34, the top reigned for ten years on the fashion world. She was already the most beautiful, now she is the richest

 The tax auditor life sometimes gives you moments of infinite grace: when your dedication requires you to call the most beautiful woman of the world in a modest civil servant office, well, it's as if the sky suddenly seems to a galaxy of luminescent rose petals. Imagine this Venus of 1.80 meters, its 57 kilos chiseled to exalt the Bikini. The maddening creature loses its case before you, before your miserable columns of figures. This is what happened in April, a small armada of IRS employees (Internal Revenue Service) in Los Angeles where the top lies the highest paid in the world. A Brentwood, Gisele Bündchen lives in a huge mansion 24.2 million, an ultra-green building disguised as a castle in the Black Forest. With her husband, American football star Tom Brady, she grows its fruits and vegetables, are heated to solar energy, collects and recycles rainwater. Not a fan of worldliness, she lies at 22 h 30 and receives little. It is not the splendor of his evenings that drew the attention of the tax authorities, nor his house ultimately cheaper than the Ecclestone family (85 million). No, it is ranked "Forbes". This fatal and eternal charts of the largest fortunes.

 On February 23, 2000 in New York. Breakfast on the go. Gisele is 19 and already four year career. © Yann GAMBLINThe "poor" has already figured it seven times. And this is not the first time it is convened ... Officials from the IRS, it begins to call them by their first name. This year, they listed 42 million in gains on the year 2012-2013. So yes, the company Gisele Bündchen practice tax optimization. What could be more normal? Moreover, it is not she who made the edits and deductions, is his sister Raquel who runs his accounting. She's the good in mathematics that sums the pub contracts, totals product sales, payroll wages, dividends shares calculated and deducted the interest of mortgages. A complex work. For "Gisele" - as they say "Karl", "Ines" or the pope ... "Francis" - is omnipresent, from top to bottom of the economic ladder; that is why we measure power.

 Gisele Bundchen poses for his brand of lingerie "Gisele Bündchen Intimates" © Visual Press / Gisele Bündchen IntimatesWith this German aristocrat face (the origins of its Vadir and Vania parents), it sells - and ennobled - H & M, C & A and Pantene shampoos, as it can make you available the luxurious Chanel foundations or exorbitant Vuitton bags . That's for pubs (it also promotes a TV channel, an electric toothbrush, trifles ...). But there are also famous Ipanema flip flops that have given a cold sweat the CEO of Havaianas, competition, installed in the market for much longer. For less than 20 euros, you can walk in color in no Gisele. And cosmetics: you dream of her peach complexion never polluted by pesticides? Now you can work there. Sejaa Pure Skincare, its line of care, puts the dream dermo-perfect to reach the street. Well, to 179 dollars wrinkle, it remains an investment to meditate. Finally, the queen of Victoria's Secret who, for the sake dad, never bares her breasts, has launched what protect this heritage: Gisele Bündchen Intimates offers Brazilians the wise and well slinky lingerie, a maddening nothing on the invoice, 130 to 180 reals bra (about 45-65 euros). It must be said that underwear Gisele knows: the string appears to have been invented for her. Needless to say that the IRS there have been jealous for dealing with "cheater".At first, no one was quite nice: too small eyes, nose impressive ...

Yet no more honest than this traditional Catholic! A good girl incapable of any evil. Besides, if she has very wary rail Leonardo DiCaprio for five years - 2000 to 2005 -, it is not only through its external arguments. She tells you flatly: "I am a happy nature. Warm and spontaneous as all Brazilians, I always see the good side of things. "After the shock of its beauty, it is true, what strikes you is her radiant smile without ulterior motives, his hoarse voice cascading loud laughter, his strange latin accent when speaking English, his gestures, posturing eloquent and ... his health. This girl exudes energy. A thoroughbred, slender and long muscles under the silky. And in his azure eyes, clarity, kindness, serenity: the effect of yoga practice it extensively. Besides, she does everything with intensity. Success also makes it irresistible.

 Gisele supports Brazil with her daughter for the World Cup 2014 © Twitter / Gisle BundchenBut we said at the beginning, in 1997, no one was quite nice: too small eyes, nose too big ... We confined to the obscure catalogs made with three francs six sous in Japan for selling brands by correspondence. The ambitious clenched teeth. No way to go home, to Horizontina on failure. It is a French photographer Patrick Demarchelier, who convinced the newsroom. In those years, the magazines were intoxicated by skeletal looks of the Russians, which is starved thousand ways to winning contracts. "Vogue France," the first, sounded the end of penance by setting coverage "Gisele" paradoxical Brazilian, German tanned creeper name and blue eyes. Specify a casting in London for the late Alexander McQueen had thrilled the first ranks parades. Another followed, for Dolce & Gabbana. Northern Europe and South vibrant one flame to the torch melt.A Horizontina and the region of Rio Grande do Sul, there was a before and an after Gisele. Prior to the average person, the "Brazilians" were like sometimes to Priscilla Queen of the Desert - a transvestite - and sometimes to small tobacco jars, certainly appetizing, but very redone and a little hairy. And there was Gisele. Then Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio ... Today, no fewer than fifteen supermodels come from Horizontina. Homeland Gisele became that of "Escolas de manequims". Dilson Stein, owner of one of these establishments, confirms ten "models" Brazilians, five come from his area. "It provides the largest number of big blondes with blue eyes per square meter. "In this land of Germanic migration, miscegenation, sports and healthy food are better than Deutsche Mark and Frankfurter Wurst
 The Bündchen, a bosseuses Dynasty. Nothing to do with the Kardashians

Speaking sports and diet precisely Gisele seems to taunt the most exemplary mothers two months after giving birth to her second child, Vivian, 1 year after Benjamin, 4, the "Sculptural" had already lost his 13 kilos. "Yes, 13 kilos, no more, she insists. I paid attention. And kung fu until two weeks before the birth. "She adds, ingenuous guilt:" I do not understand why some women when they become pregnant, indulge, abandon their body as a garbage ... "Thank you for the unfortunate. Gisele, she never lets anything. His teacher kung fu recalls with terror tip: "I train every day of the year, without exception, Thanksgiving and New Year included! "

 "What would I be without my beauty team after 15 hour flight and 3 hours of sleep" tweets in December 2013. © Gisele Gisele Bündchen / TwitterIn the work is the same: a fierce, if not an executioner. Up at 6 am 30. After thirty minute walk with the dog, then omelette with spinach, goat cheese and broccoli. She followed. Behind the computer, four of his sisters back base in Brazil: Raquel accounting, but Patricia, her twin in manager, lawyer and Gabriela Rafaela in Webmaster of its sites. The large, Graziela, is judge. A dynasty of bosseuses. Nothing to do with the Kardashian. "I come from a family of middle class. My father had a construction company that worked. But we were eight in four rooms and two bathrooms. On the expenditure side, he had to be careful. My mother juggled, but she was coming. My father was the philosopher, less grounded in reality. "Located in the middle, with her twin Patricia, Gisele (known school" Saracura "bird crane) wore the clothes of her sisters. "Their jeans were coming my knee! From that time, I kept the sake of financial security. I need stability. "This does not explain everything: hyperactive, former tomboy, restless child, she needs to prove she can do it. "I always wanted to have my business. "Like father, his idol," My best friend! ". Initially, it was not hot for this career "call girl" Vadir. Then, seeing her clinging, crying on the phone, he calmed: "You? A big nose? But people with big noses have strong personalities! The small noses are small people. "Twenty years later, infallible nose sniffs Gisele dollars but faith millionaire pays taxes.

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