Gisele Bündchen

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Birth Name:

Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen

Birth Place:

Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Date of Birth:

July 20, 1980(1988-08-26)

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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Nathan Teasdale Mottram February 21, 2010 at 11:56 pm

its all fake tan guys

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Fuzzybear February 21, 2010 at 8:10 pm

I don’t get,she isn’t all that pretty to me

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ethnic February 21, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Anonymous February 21, 2010 at 1:27 pm

why is she so tan then? is it naturally tanned?

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Sebastiane January 26, 2010 at 11:52 am

Brazil also has a large Japanese, Polish, Ukrainian and Assyrian community.

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im kira January 14, 2010 at 10:34 am

omgad no way, awesome!

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ethnic March 21, 2009 at 12:01 am

Thanks for the informative post Adam. its amazing how diverse Brazil is.

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Adam March 20, 2009 at 3:45 pm

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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quas March 17, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Yeh it says her race/ethnicity is German. Her nationality is Brazilian.

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jenny March 17, 2009 at 5:31 pm

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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