I love how regular celebrities go to People magazine or OK! for their baby photoshoot reveal. Gisele? Straight to US Vogue! She gave first rights to a Brazilian mag and TV channel, and then Vogue of course scores the beautiful photoshoot, that comes with more gems of gold straight from Gisele's mouth.
Memorable quotes, as reported by Us magazine this week. Let's see if Gisele is normal, like the rest of us, or ... not normal, like her usual superhuman self.
A friend from Brazil served as a mid-wife, and both her mother and Brady, 31, were present. NORMAL
Through the birth, she says she meditated. NOT NORMAL. IDEAL, BUT NOT NORMAL.
"It was the most amazing experience of my life, feeling him come through my body," she says. "And once he was born, I never felt so empowered as looking at him and thinking, Oh, my God, we did it together!" NORMAL
"I wanted him to be called River because I wanted something always flowing, immortal," she says. "My husband said, 'There's no way we're going to call him River.' But my father's name is Reinoldo, so it's a homage to him. And it's like water." NOT NORMAL
She "only gained 30 pounds" during the whole pregnancy. "I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week." She adds that she was also "mindful" about what she ate. NOT NORMAL, IDEAL, BUT NOT NORMAL.
"I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals." NOT NORMAL.
She also wanted to keep a low profile: "I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me ... I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face." NORMAL.
When she recently posed for one of her advertising clients, "I got to the studio and I felt like I was E.T. — whoa, what's going on? Hair and makeup? I hadn't looked at myself in a mirror for a month-and-a-half," she says. "I'd been in my house, in a cocoon with my kids, my husband, my dogs. Usually, as I walk through the door into that atmosphere, I already feel different. 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. This time it wasn't like that. I've been really inside with my husband and my baby, and everything is changed. But the client still deserves respect and professionalism, and I got a little bit concerned because I wasn't feeling it. Makeup was done, hair was done, and I looked in the mirror and I still wasn't seeing the person who's a model."
"For the first time, I think I actually saw me -- the inside -- instead of the persona." NORMAL.
Hurrah! I think we've discovered Gisele is actually human, not an alien.
Pics courtesy of US Vogue