Gisele Bundchen made a rare morning show appearance on CBS This Morning (on Tuesday). She did the interview to promote her $700 coffee table book, which has already sold out. Meaning, she didn’t even have to promote it! She could have just stayed home and tweeted about it. Still, I’m glad she sat down for a TV interview because she really doesn’t do this very often. And Gisele ended up saying some interesting stuff too, like she considered dumping Tom Brady when she found out that Bridget Moynahan was pregnant. Here are some assorted quotes (I’m including the video at the end of the post).
On her marriage: “I think we’ve been through a few tough times together. I think that’s when you know who are your friends and who loves you. My father always said the quality of your life depends on the quality of your relationships and I think, no matter how challenging it was, we’ve always been supportive of one another and I think that’s the most important think you can have in life, you know, a support system and love.”
Learning about Bridget Moynahan’s pregnancy: “It was a challenging thing because here I am, you know, thinking I’m dating this guy, you know, we met, we started dating, everything is great, and then this happens so I felt I didn’t know what to do. It was one of those moments of ‘do I just run away?’ And now I think, eight years later, I couldn’t have asked for a sweeter bonus child.”
On Tom Brady: “He’s kind. He’s a good man…I would say that he’s much more competitive than me, I’m more collaborative…He’s kind of the boss, not the boss, but he has to dictate, ‘Not guys, smack something, I don’t know, some language…’”
Whether she was so successful because of her look: “No. Not at all. I don’t think so… I think it was because of my personality. It was because I never complained.”
Her perfectionism: “I’m a person who strives to be the best I can be. If I’m going to clean my apartment, you’re going to be able to eat on the floor. I’m that person, you know what I’m saying?”
[Transcribed from CBS ‘This Morning’]
I honestly didn’t know that the “bonus child” name was something other people used. I thought it was just LeAnn Rimes. But Gisele is a fan of calling Benjamin her “bonus child.” And after all of this time… I think it’s fine. Gisele seems to adore her stepson and Bridget, Gisele and Tom all get along fine. It is interesting to hear, after all these years, that Gisele had a moment of “whoa, this is messy, maybe I should run away from this guy.”
Here’s the video. I actually enjoyed her a lot here, and that’s coming from someone who finds Gisele to be pretty smug. She’s better in motion, and you can see her personality and how she interacts with Charlie Rose (Rose is totally flirting with her too and she enjoys that).
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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