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Vanity Fair is polling its readers this May, with a cover asking, ‘Who is the Most Beautiful Woman Alive?’ And while the list and inside spreads include models such as Kate Moss, Bar Refaeli, Natalia Vodianova and actresses such as Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie, it’s Gisele Bundchen they placed on the cover, shot by Mario Testino. The full article is already up on Vanity Fair’s website, beginning with a slight tabloid-feel, discussing the rumors from the engagement on to the wedding and honeymoon. But it really gets interesting when she begins to talk about her career in modeling and starting out.
“In the beginning I had no idea what I was doing,” Gisele admits. “I had no idea what modeling was. I didn’t know it’s about becoming something—embodying something. It’s not you. I didn’t understand that. I was like this!” She bares her teeth in a horrible rigor-mortis grin. “I wasn’t aware of my body. All my life I felt awkward about myself.” But the idea that somebody had found her attractive was intoxicating. “Out of those 50 girls, that guy thought I was pretty,” she recalls, a dreamy look softening her face. “People weren’t calling me Olive Oyl. It was a different standard of beauty.”
