Word: bundchen
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...Gisele Bundchen's reported runway fee for one show
Even with her makeup applied, Bundchen was still in the realm of our planet, the kind of woman who turns every head on a SoHo corner. Then, hair in curlers and wearing a robe, she posed for a few Polaroids to check the lighting. The faces she made--mouth open, eyes squinting, lips pouting, chin thrust forward--are lasered into my memory. They broke my heart, just as I had feared...
Modeling, Bundchen explained, is acting, which she is doing for the first time in this fall's movie Taxi, in which she plays a bank robber. "Everyone can look beautiful in a picture with the right photographer and lighting. I like a challenge," she says. "I like when someone puts makeup on me that makes me look like I've been destroyed. It's not as far from who I am." Though Bundchen, 23, luckily never quite uses the phrase "to find myself," the woman who is probably one of the highest-paid models ever is reappearing this spring after...
...Bundchen feigns ignorance of being one of the few runway models whom straight men can name. "I think guys like me because they like girls in lingerie," she says about her Victoria's Secret work. "They like any girl in lingerie." Bundchen is surprisingly wise...
When she's not working, Bundchen rarely wears makeup and almost never lipstick. "Lipstick makes you look older. When a woman wears lipstick, she can't wear any other makeup," she says. After her eight months off, she has conflicted emotions about her profession. "I cannot criticize my business because it's the business I'm in. But I don't want to live in it; I just want to work in it. In fashion, they make you feel like you're beautiful and great, and it can get to your head. You can think you're better than other...