Mourning for Gisele Bundhcen: her mother Vania has died

Vania Nonnenmacherthe mother of the super top Gisele Bundchen, she died at the age of 75. This was announced by the Moinhos de Vento hospital in Porto Alegre where the woman, suffering from cancer, had been hospitalized. The news of the disease was given, indirectly, by the model herself last September, when she posted a rare shot of her five sisters and her parents in Brazil on Instagram. Together with her, her twin Patricia and Rafaela, Graziela, Gabriela and Raquel, her children Vivian, aged 10, and Benjamin, aged 13. «Always in my heart and in my prayers» the comment

Gisele’s mother, Vania, who encouraged her as a model, died

Mother and daughter had posed together on the cover of Vogue Brazilin 2018. And in 2022 Gisele had dedicated a very tender gallery to her on Instagram with a special dedication: «I will always be grateful for everything you have done and continue to do for us. Thank you for always loving, inspiring and teaching us. Thank you for giving me life! Love You so much”.

Former bank employee in Horizontina, married to a university professor, Vania was of Brazilian nationality but both she and her husband had German origins. She had the intuition to launch her daughter into the world of the catwalk: when Gisele was 14, she enrolled her together with two of her five sisters in a posture course to participate in the debutante ball.

During a trip to Sao Paulo, at the end of the course, Gisele is spotted by an officer inside a McDonalds and then decides to participate in the Elite model look competition, again at the urging of her mother. The rest is history.

The top model has not yet released a statement after the loss, but there has been no shortage of opportunities to talk about her and their unique relationship on social media. During her last Mother’s Day, in 2023, Gisele wrote a post: «I send all my love, especially to my mother, my wonder woman, a warrior who raised six daughters with much love and care. I love you mom!”. Certainly, Vania has always been an example for Gisele to imitate, even in the education of her children.

Gisele: her children and her divorce from Tom Brady

With the father of her two children Vivian and Benjamin, the quarterback of the New England Patriots Tom Brady with whom she was married for 13 years, the former model has a special co-parenting relationshipas he told the magazine People: «We are not playing against each other, we are a team, and this is beautiful. I look back and have no regrets.” And he also spoke about the son that Tom had had from his previous relationship with the actress Bridget Moynahan, Jack: Still considers him his “bonus baby”. “I love him so much,” she said. And in fact it is not uncommon to see him in some shots with her.

Gisele, on the other hand, has never hidden the fact that she abandoned her career to pursue her family’s dream. In an interview with Vanity Fair he said: «When I met Tom, I was 26 years old and I wanted a family. I felt so ready.”. She worked every day of the year, she was the highest paid top in the world, but her meeting with Brady shuffled her cards.

As soon as they get together (a year after her relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio) he discovers that his ex is pregnant. Gisele welcomes Jack like a son, before having her own two, And to dedicate yourself to them at all times; he abandons excesses, alcohol, fashion shows, and moves to Tampa where Tom plays. And he relaunches his life in a healthy style, before turning the page again with the divorce and the move to Miami. And now farewell to mother Vania.

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