Category: Vintage Photo

43-year-old Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen is enjoying life and great success right now. She has expressed herself as being nothing like her supermodel persona and is delighted at finally being able to be her true self.

An interesting story covered in the Vogue Paris December 2002/January 2003 issue featuring Bündchen through the lenses of Mario Testino resurfaced which skillfully juxtaposed a topless series of the supermodel amid rare images from supermodel’s “family album.” The pictures appear with sidenotes quoting her on personal insights from her life growing up in a small town in southern Brazil, throwing into sharper relief the contours of her true self.

A sneak peek into the Bündchen’s family album

“My mother, Vania, has always transformed every moment of our family life into a small event. For the slightest outing, party or meeting, she made us look pretty and wanted a photo. (originally in French),” said the sidenote quoting Bundchen on a family portrait of the Bündchens taken in their home in Horizontina, a very small town in southern Brazil, featured in the 2003 Paris Vogue issue, among other unseen pictures. ““So, my father Valdir would