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Birth Name:
Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen
Birth Place:
Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Date of Birth:
July 20, 1980
What Race or Ethnicity?:
German Brazilian
The Brazilian model was born to parents who are both of German ancestry. Bundchen was born and raised in Horizontina, a southern region in Brazil where there is a large ethnic German community. She is actually a 6th-generation German Brazilian.
Despite being of German origin, Gisele doesn’t speak German. However she admits that she learned German in third grade but forgot it all. Her parents still speak German to their siblings.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2029705,00.html
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I don’t know how american people classifies ethnicy, for north americans all people from south are latino, this is wrong, there are a lot of people in south american with pure european ethincy, there are cities in Brazil that the first language is german for example, in Argentina most of people are italian or german descendents, they are not latins i think, they only speak a latin language… but italians, frenchs, spanishs and portuguese speak latin languages and still european white.
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Although latinos are seen as being a middle gray between black and white, latinos can be 100% of caucasian blood or 100% black also, but they are all considered latino, the color of the skin has nothing to do with the term “Latino”. Just because they look “too dark” or “too white” doesnt mean they are not truely latino.
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She MAJORLY looks positively EQUINE with that HORRIBLY UGLY HORSE FACE!
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not hot at all
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you find jennifer garner hot but not her? they look very similar especially w/ the noses.
not arguing by the way (:
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there is just something about jennifers mouth that gets me going
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oh yeah man i can see that :) i think she got lip injections but who cares, it suits her
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German women are so exotic and naturally gorgeous!
(I speak generally of course but still!)
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@jo
I don’t know about german women,but Gisele is not gorgeous.To me she looks like a man by the face:
http://www.femininebeauty.info/i/bundchen.7.jpg
Now I know somethings wrong with you,always down grading the good looking girls
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Your right,she is not gorgeous:
http://www.goodplasticsurgery.com/archives/giselle_bundchen.jpg
And this is with makeup,basically what I’m saying is she is not all that
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you’re right, she’s nto gorgeous, she is STUNNING without makeup. :)
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Er no, she is attractive. I respect that not everyone finds exotic women beautiful though :-)
http://s1.hubimg.com/u/3442420_f260.jpg
Anyone who pretends this looks like a man needs to stop thinking about men so much (if he’s a guy anyway, like you) and come out of the closet.
And no, I point out when someone isn’t attractive (stalker much? Thanks, it’s flattering… I guess?) whereas you’re the one who just “downgraded” a gorgeous lady…. who I might add looks just as beautiful without makeup as with it unlike all the nasty tramps Hollywood is so obsessed with. Good for you to conform and worship them like the media wants. I don’t know what’s “wrong” with you and frankly don’t care enough about you to find out, sorry.
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She looks like a man in drag.She has a nice pair,but otherwise doesn’t do it for me
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I wasn’t aware men had long lashes, full lips, breasts, vaginas, small bones, feminine booties, feminine eyes, small chins, etc.
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@Jo,I know what like.When I see her,she’s not it.I’ve seen her without makeup,and I don’t know what your looking at,but hot she is not.
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Fixed mistake:I know what I like
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I’m looking at her without makeup. You’d have to be blind to miss the fact that she looks exactly the same. Notice I didn’t say attractive, I said “the same”. Very VERY few celebs look good without it. She’s one of the few who looks the same with it as without it. That’s admirable.
but at least you admit she also looks ok with it on :-)
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LMAO @ people giving you Thumbs Down no matter what you say just cause they hate that you pointed out Nessa aint cute :) ignore the haters son.
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Ella tiene rasgos Nativos americanos, tiene rasgos indígenas muy marcados, y eso es lo que la hace ver tan bella.
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so she’s actually german then, -ethnicity wise
her nationality is brazilian, its like alexis bledel, shes german, danish and french, but her parents nationalities are mexican and argentinian, im sorry but i dont class these people as latinas, but if its only based on their nationalities, then yes, although alexis is american
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im portuquese
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I heard she she mostly German with some Portuguese in her and a small degree of indigenous in her,but I think she’s a straight up Brazilian-German girl.
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She’s part Quarter horse.
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And you’re full Jealous.
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This girl in my class looks exactly like her, but she is from Colombia
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