Gisele Bündchen's daily life has not always been haloed with sun salutations and fed with vegetarian dishes.
In an interview granted on May 18 to the British edition of
Vogue
, the 41-year-old Brazilian returned to her discomfort felt in her twenties.
“I started my day with a whipped cream Mocha Frappuccino and three cigarettes.
Then I drank a bottle of wine every night,” she said.
On video, in the intimacy of Gisele Bündchen
An inner chaos
The leading model of the late 1990s did not always know inner peace.
“I was only 22 and from the outside it looked like I had everything.
But inside, I felt like I had hit rock bottom,” she said.
The one who had started parading a few years earlier, notably on the catwalks of Alexander McQueen, had indeed suffered from crippling anxiety and panic attacks since the beginning of the 2000s.
The wife of American football player Tom Brady claims to have come out of this painful period with the help of a French naturopath.
The latter would have asked him: “Do you want to live?”.
Gisele Bündchen then begins a global detox: she eliminates sugar, cereals, dairy products, coffee and cigarettes.
“These are the worst migraines I've ever had in my life,” she says of her withdrawal symptoms.
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Since then, Gisele Bündchen has adopted the lifestyle that we know her and a holistic approach to well-being.
She claims to feel "better in her 40s than in her 20s, and not just physically."
And concludes: “We are all told that life is over at 40, but I have the impression that it has only just begun.”
