Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian model and activist. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. Bündchen is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement where a model lifts her knees high and kicks her feet to step. In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel.