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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 am Brazilian, I think you have a totally wrong of Brazil, should consider geography more, Brazil is in south america has nothing to do with Africa, continents are different. 70% of Brazilians have white skin, our country is mixed.
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Your country can be mixed til the cows come home.It doesn’t matter how white you say your skin is,Brazilians have African blood.The Europeans African bloodline maybe old,or it may be recent.Never the less it’s still there.You guys down there need to stop the nonsense,unwash your brains and get over it
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I met a few `white` brazilian people today and there was one white American in their group. You could tell who was the American immediately. the brazilians are usually relatively dark even though they may considered white in Brazil.
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Off course brazilian whites are dark, for sure they are portuguese and spanish descendents, they are darker skined europeans (south europe), americans are north european descendets, more white of course, but in europe spanish and portuguese and also south italians still been white people.
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Do they include the ancestry of every Latin American on here, or just Gisele because she is white?
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If the ancestry is traceable it gets mentioned if its not provable its anyone’s guess.
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See Adriana Lima =) for example
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So is she really half brazilian?
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Just German. It explains her ethnicity above.
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Gisele’s family:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqK3U9TX_UM
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I think her father has some amerindian ancestry.
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Got a source?
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She has a distant african ancestry!
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her tan could be natural since her family live in brazil since 6 generations;
However, until i heard her speaking portuguese with a strong brazilian accent, i always thought she was german because of her name !!!!!
She’s very beautiful !!!!
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To Anonymous
I was going to ask North or South America Indian,but since you said Brazilian I’m assuming South
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@ Fuzzybear
I problably have. To be honestly, I don’t really know.
My grandfather was from Southern Italy. He was probably mixed with Northern African blood.
My ethnicity is: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Native American.
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To Anonymous
I don’t think there a kinda to it,she is overrated.Also yes Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrósio are both better looking than her.Now I have a question for you,and don’t get mad.Most of the time,that people say they are Brazilian, they hide the fact that they have African ancestry;do you have it?
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I’m brazilian, and honestly don’t think she is exotic lookin’, she’s kinda overrated.
Guess Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrósio are way prettier than her.
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i agree with you because they are prettier and more exotic looking im mean gisele is pretty but theyre prettier… anyway did you know she is the highest payed model in the world? yup its true but i love her voice she’s got a strong accent
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To Izzy
It is hard to believe,because there are without a doubt better looking women than her.For some strange reason,she’s what their looking for,and I can’t understand it
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Adriana and Alessandra are 100% classic, not exotic, unlike Gisele.
Adriana is so overrated it’s awful. I don’t know many people who like Gisele so I don’t see how she’s overrated, especially since isnt’ she retired or is that someone else?
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I think the majority of Brazilian models are overrated, including Gisele, Adriana, Alessandra, Izabel, Isabeli, and the likes. By the way, Alessandra isn’t exotic-looking either. The only ones that are exotic-looking are Adriana and Ana Beatriz Barros. That’s it.
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