She’s said it before and she’ll say it again.Gisele Bündchenis done with runways.
The former Victoria’s Secret Angel toldEllein her October cover story that she has “zero desire” to return to runways, afterpreviously announcing in 2020 that she was retiring from the catwalk.
“Believe me, every year [designers] ask, ‘Please, Gisele, do the runway,’ " she told the magazine before saying it’s not going to happen. She added that instead of modeling on a runway, she feels much more comfortable working in editorial.
“It’s very easy for me to go there and create a character and play that role for the day,” Bündchen said of working on photo shoots with a creative team. “It fuels me.… I feel inspired to go and create more beautiful things in the world in different ways, too.”
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“There’s never going to be a moment or a runway like that,” she toldElleof the Olympics.
Bündchen, who married NFL starTom Bradyin 2009, sometimes even brings her kids to work with her. She shared withEllea story about bringing her daughter, Vivian, 9, to a photo shoot in Paris and noted howconfused her daughter seemedabout all the commotion behind the scenes.
“She saw me with all these different hairdos and makeup—she didn’t understand why,” she toldElle. “She’s like, ‘Mommy, you look so much prettier without all that! Why are they touching you? Can they stop?’ "
At the time, Bündchen simply responded to her daughter, “Listen, this is fashion!”
Bündchen and Brady, 45, also share some Benjamin, 12, and Brady’s son Jack, 15, from a previous relationship. Amid Brady’s decision to unretire from football, Bündchen toldEllethat she’d like her husband to be more present in her and her kids' lives.
“Obviously, I have my concerns—this is a very violent sport, and I have my children and I would like him to be more present,” she toldElle. “I have definitely had those conversations with him over and over again. But ultimately, I feel that everybody has to make a decision that works for [them]. He needs to follow his joy, too.”
Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen and family after the 2021 Super Bowl.Gisele Bundchen Instagram
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Asource echoed this statementto PEOPLE, saying, “From a family standpoint, these are critical years. The kids are getting older, Ben is 12 now, and Gisele feels like Tom needs to be home.”
The two have reportedlyhit a “rough patch"in their marriage, with sources telling PEOPLE that not only was Bündchen unhappy with her husband’s decision to go back to football after saying he was retiring, butBrady being fully awareof that and now trying to “smooth things over.”
“She doesn’t hate that he’s playing football, but she sure hates the way he handled the retirement and coming back,” a source told PEOPLE. “He knows that, and he’s doing what he can do to smooth things over. He does know that this is his last season if he wants to stay married.”
source: people.com
