Gisele Bundchen

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

I love kids. It's amazing that I have the opportunity to hang out with my stepson all the time.

Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star.

So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away.

Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No!

Everything that's worth it has a price.

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

It was my first scene. My first day.

It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great.

If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.

I help a lot of different charities.

I'm very interested in charities.

I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

I'm not an actress, you know.

I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.

I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that.

I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me.

I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.

I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life.