Gisele Bundchen shares VERY RARE photo with all FIVE of her stunning sisters as well as their parents Vania and Valdir during Brazil visit
Gisele Bundchen celebrated a trip to her home country of Brazil with her extended family, including her five beautiful sisters and their parents.
The stunning supermodel, 43, took to her Instagram on Tuesday to share a photo album from the holiday, featuring incredible photos of her five sisters.
They include Raquel, 49, Graziela, 47, Patricia, 43, Gabriela, 41, and Rafaela, 35.
Also seen were their parents – mother Vânia and father Valdir.
The beautiful family was photographed sitting around a dining table, with each member wearing big smiles as they wrapped their arms around each other.
Family fun: Gisele Bunchen shared a rare family photo of sisters Patricia, 43, Graziela, 47, Raquel, 49, Rafaela, 35, and Gabriela, 41, plus mom Vânia and dad Valdir
Close family ties: Gisele sat in the back row, her mother in the front
Gisele was sweetly seen resting her head on her mother’s head while her fraternal twin sister Patricia hugged the matriarch.
The rare family photo was captioned by the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl, “Always in my heart and prayers.”
In other photos from the carousel, Gisele was seen posing in front of Rio de Janeiro’s famous statue of Christ the Redeemer.
In another photo, the famous beauty hugged a cat and then a baby.
Gisele’s two children who she shares with her ex Tom Brady – son Benjamin, born in 2009, and daughter Vivian, born in 2012 – were also part of the family fun as they had some close-ups with their grandparents!
As fans know, Gisele and the superstar NFL quarterback, who also has an older son, Jack, 15, from his previous relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan, split in 2022 after marrying in 2009.
The Instagram post was a rare glimpse into Gisele’s large group of siblings, as family gatherings can be challenging to coordinate with so many sisters.
All smiles: Gisele’s two children who she shares with her ex Tom Brady – son Benjamin, born in 2009, and daughter Vivian, born in 2012 – were also part of the family fun, as they had a few close-ups with their grandparents
There she is! Gisele was sitting on the right when one of her sisters took the photo
“I feel so blessed to grow up surrounded by six amazing women: my mother and my five sisters,” Gisele wrote on Instagram in 2019 alongside a family photo.
‘We are all so different, but we complement each other and help each other grow!’
In her 2018 memoir, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life, Gisele also addressed the dynamics of such a large household.
“When I was growing up in Horizontina, Brazil, there were six girls sitting at the dinner table, six voices rising to talk, laugh, or disagree at the same time,” she wrote.
“One day my father made a rule: if either of us had something to say, we had to raise our hands.”
She also noted that she had “the best childhood in the world.”
Baby love: Gisele held one of the newest members of her large family
Queen of the world: Gisele posed in front of the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro
Taking it all in: Gisele and a family member posed in front of the famous Art Deco piece
It’s in the genes: Gisele’s parents proved where the supermodel got her good looks from
Generations: Gisele’s family members made sure to show their love to each other with big hugs during the holidays
This comes after Bundchen said she considered committing suicide at the height of her modeling career by jumping from the ninth floor of her apartment building.
The supermodel added that she also suffered from panic attacks at the time due to her hectic work schedule.
She told journalist Lee Cowan, 58, on an upcoming episode of “CBS News Sunday Morning,” airing September 24: “You know, I was in tunnels. I couldn’t breathe. And then I started working in studios, and I felt like I was suffocating.”
She said her suicidal thoughts came when she was living on the ninth floor of a building while working as a model and had to take the stairs for fear she would get stuck in the elevator.
Gisele added, “I would hyperventilate… you know when you can’t breathe even with the windows open, you feel like, I don’t want to live like this, you know what I mean?”
When Lee then asked if she had thought about jumping out of the apartment building, Gisele replied, “Yes.” For a second.’
The Brazilian first opened up about her suicidal thoughts in 2018, ahead of the release of her memoir ‘Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life’.
She told People in an interview to promote the book, “I basically felt like, ‘If I just jump off my roof, this will end, and I never have to worry about feeling like my world is closing in.’
Don’t forget Grandpa: Gisele’s father also got a big hug
The former Victoria’s Secret model added that she once felt like “everything in (her) life was going to kill (her).”
In her autobiography, she added: ‘The idea struck me then: maybe it would be easier if I just jump. It will all be over. I can get out of here.
‘When I think back to that moment, and that 23-year-old girl, I want to cry. I want to tell her that everything will be okay, that she hasn’t even started her life yet. But at that moment the only answer seemed to be to jump.”
But Gisele emphasized during her “CBS News Sunday Morning” chat that she is now “in a different place.”
She added: ‘I can choose what I want more. I think I used to be more surviving, and now I’m living, which is different.”
Gisele, who was once the highest-paid model in the world, earning about $17.5 million in one year, retired from the runway in 2015.
Cats also need love: at the family photo carousel the pet received a hug
She is still in high demand today and has fronted campaigns for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, Iconic and Louis Vuitton.
Gisele also admits in the CBS chat that she never “dreamed” of divorcing her husband Tom.
Sources say they have decided to call off their marriage after what sources say was an “epic fight” over the athlete’s surprise decision to quit football six months early.
Gisele – who has son Benjamin, 13, and daughter Vivian, 10, with Tom – said she was blindsided by the split because she wanted a long relationship like her parents.
She said: ‘(Our split was) not what I dreamed or hoped for. My parents have been married for fifty years and I really wanted that.
“But I think sometimes you have to accept that in your twenties, sometimes you grow together, sometimes you grow apart.”