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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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its all fake tan guys
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I don’t get,she isn’t all that pretty to me
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Is she really that tanned?
http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gisele_bunchen.jpg
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why is she so tan then? is it naturally tanned?
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Brazil also has a large Japanese, Polish, Ukrainian and Assyrian community.
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omgad no way, awesome!
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Thanks for the informative post Adam. its amazing how diverse Brazil is.
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the Brazilians-Italians and Brazilians-Germans are the second largest population outside of Italy and Germany. In the Rio Grand do Sul exist three completely German cities.
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Yeh it says her race/ethnicity is German. Her nationality is Brazilian.
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How can you been german, when you were born in Brazil? Under her race it says Geran.lmao Folks are confusing race with nationality.
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