Talking about a scary near-death experience while working on a modeling campaign, supermodel Gisele Bündchen said that she almost fell off into the ocean. She revealed this during The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The model, 43, retired from professional modeling in 2015 but before that, she was featured on brands like Chanel, Carolina Herrera, and Louis Vuitton, and earned an estimated $386 million throughout her career.
Bündchen is currently promoting her cookbook, Nourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body and Feed Your Soul.
Gisele Bündchen Recalled How She Almost Died During a Photoshoot
During her Thursday night (March 21) appearance on The Tonight Show, Gisele Bündchen opened up about one terrifying moment she experienced while working on a photo shoot in Iceland years ago.
“I did a photo shoot on a fake iceberg in Iceland, and I almost fell off into the ocean,” she said during the “True Confessions” segment of the show.
“So the whole thing I was supposed to be in this slip dress while everyone was like in a boat — like, all the crew was in a boat with like huge puffer jackets and life vests,” Bündchen recalled. “It was, I think, 1997 or 1998,” she noted.
Bündchen was participating in a campaign for the fragrance Oxygene at the time.
“You know what happens inside of the freezing water of the icebergs? [In] seconds you’re dead – dead!” she exclaimed.
“But I’m alive,” she added.
Elsewhere, the Brazilian model promoted her new cookbook, Nourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body and Feed Your Soul, which is set to be published on March 26.
Gisele Bündchen Talked About Overcoming the Depression and Panic Attacks She Faced in Her 20s
While with The View, the supermodel spoke about how she went through depression and panic attacks during her 20s. She said:
“I wanted to feel better, I didn’t know what to do, so I found this amazing naturopath and he said to me, ‘Gisele, we have to change your diet.’ And I was like, ‘Diet, what does that have to do with panic attacks?’ And he’s like, ‘No, it has everything to do with it.” (Via PEOPLE)
She added:
“After having a year and a half of what I would say [was] one of the worst times in my life, everything changed. I became a different person. I started practicing meditation. I started practicing yoga. I started practicing breath work.“
Bündchen and Tom Brady, the former New England Patriots quarterback, were married in 2009 but announced their divorce in October 2022.
At present, the model is reportedly dating her jiu-jitsu instructor, Joaquim Valente. In March 2023, while speaking to Vanity Fair Bündchen for the first time, publicly addressed her relationship with Valente.
