The Victoria Secret Angel says in the candid interview that she has not learned much from her past success. Gisele was already one of the highest paid supermodels when she was only 22 years old, but according to the Brazilian, at the time she was only concerned with the secret internal battle she had with her mental and physical health.
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“On the outside it looked like I had it all, and I was only 22 years old. Inside I felt like I had hit rock bottom,” she admits. Behind closed doors she dealt with crippling anxiety and panic attacks for about a year and a half. Because she could no longer live like this, she decided on a friend’s recommendation to follow a detox and cut sugar, grains, dairy, caffeine, alcohol and cigarettes from her life.
Even though it gave her “the worst migraine ever,” she persisted. Going back to her old lifestyle wasn’t an option because a French doctor told her that if she didn’t stick to the diet, she wouldn’t make it to 30. “I remember him saying, ‘Well, do you want to live?’ It was that simple,” said the supermodel.
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She now feels better than ever with daily workouts at 5:00 AM and a holistic approach to health and medicine: “I think I feel better in my 40s than I was in my 20s and not just physically, because all of us being told life is over at 40 and I feel like I’m just getting started.”
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