6:34 pm - 10/31/2011
In a magazine interview, the 31-year-old mother, pictured, says she loves meat because "c’mon, I’m Brazilian".
"But I also love animals," she admits, adding that she tries limiting red meat to once every fortnight.
"So what I find really helpful--you might think I’m crazy--is that before I eat any meat I always take one second of silence to put my hands over it and bless it and be grateful at least that it was a life."
But she tells the latest issue of British Vogue that her family also likes vegetables. She says her two sons treat broccoli like a dessert.
"My children, they are like white canvases. When Benjamin eats broccoli, he thinks it’s dessert," she told the magazine.
The world’s richest model has a 22-month-old son Benjamin with Tom Brady, her American footballer husband. She is also stepmother to the 34-year-old athlete’s son Jack, four.
She added that for Jack’s fourth birthday, she made the cake with "cocoa powder and coconut oil and, you know, those dried things--what are they called? That’s it! Dates--and I put them all in the processor, and whoosh! Delicious".
The model, who regained her 126-pound pre-pregnancy figure within weeks of giving birth in 2009, also passed along fitness advice to her sisters.
"Like I tell my five sisters, who don't work at it very hard at all (to stay fit), whatever you put in, you get out," she said.
"I’m not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can."
The magazine retorted that "gone are the vida loca days of her early twenties when she smoked a packet and- a-half of cigarettes a day, drank red wine every night and tucked into big hefty steaks".
"People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know," she said.
"But what Tom taught me - and he is a living example of this - is that in order to be your best, you have to honour your own needs first.
"If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits."
She admitted she uses a nanny, a Brazilian friend called Mayda.
Bündchen, who lives in the America with Brady, is the world’s highest-paid model, with earnings of more than £90 million, according to Forbes.
Her fortune has been amassed, through contracts over her career with Victoria’s Secret, Balenciagia, Dior, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Apple and Givenchy as well as her own clothing label.
When my mom and aunt where younger they named meat before they ate it because they said it tasted better. What are your eating rituals ONTD?
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Gisele Bündchen prays before she eats meat
In a magazine interview, the 31-year-old mother, pictured, says she loves meat because "c’mon, I’m Brazilian".
"But I also love animals," she admits, adding that she tries limiting red meat to once every fortnight.
"So what I find really helpful--you might think I’m crazy--is that before I eat any meat I always take one second of silence to put my hands over it and bless it and be grateful at least that it was a life."
But she tells the latest issue of British Vogue that her family also likes vegetables. She says her two sons treat broccoli like a dessert.
"My children, they are like white canvases. When Benjamin eats broccoli, he thinks it’s dessert," she told the magazine.
The world’s richest model has a 22-month-old son Benjamin with Tom Brady, her American footballer husband. She is also stepmother to the 34-year-old athlete’s son Jack, four.
She added that for Jack’s fourth birthday, she made the cake with "cocoa powder and coconut oil and, you know, those dried things--what are they called? That’s it! Dates--and I put them all in the processor, and whoosh! Delicious".
The model, who regained her 126-pound pre-pregnancy figure within weeks of giving birth in 2009, also passed along fitness advice to her sisters.
"Like I tell my five sisters, who don't work at it very hard at all (to stay fit), whatever you put in, you get out," she said.
"I’m not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can."
The magazine retorted that "gone are the vida loca days of her early twenties when she smoked a packet and- a-half of cigarettes a day, drank red wine every night and tucked into big hefty steaks".
"People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know," she said.
"But what Tom taught me - and he is a living example of this - is that in order to be your best, you have to honour your own needs first.
"If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits."
She admitted she uses a nanny, a Brazilian friend called Mayda.
Bündchen, who lives in the America with Brady, is the world’s highest-paid model, with earnings of more than £90 million, according to Forbes.
Her fortune has been amassed, through contracts over her career with Victoria’s Secret, Balenciagia, Dior, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Apple and Givenchy as well as her own clothing label.
When my mom and aunt where younger they named meat before they ate it because they said it tasted better. What are your eating rituals ONTD?
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it sounds like she doesn't feel comfortable eating animals because she loves them so much, so before she eats one she gives thanks that she has meat in her life?
It's so stupid
God I am a nerd.
Tho' that is a lot of thinking for many here.
love her.
ok, but wait til you let him sleep at a friends house and he discovers Little Debbies cakes.
lol give me a fucking break
But give me some goddamn chocolate for dessert. Don't play me for a fool.
I believe her point is that it's all relative. If you're raised in a culture where crickets are a treat then you'll consider them a treat.
Fucking brazilian goop to be honest.
A few years later I realised it was a lie and I hated veggies until about 3 years ago.
she is acknowledging that what she's eating isn't a slab of inanimate object, unlike thousands of people who shove meat into their mouths with no thought whatsoever about what it actually is. the two are different.
i wish there were a large scale movement to change the way meat is dealt with. treating ANIMALS who are very much alive like slabs of nothing and shoving them into crates, stomping on them etc, that's what i have a problem with. if people had to kill what they ate themselves, fewer animals would have shitty lives, we'd be conscious of what we're eating because we'd actually handle our food and genuinely acknowledge it as a fellow living thing, more people would think seriously about whether or not they need meat, and things would continue naturally. i'm not against eating meat at all because we're omnivores and it is normal for us to consume meat. but this mass farming mass processing mass abusing mass mindlessly shoving pulverized animal (that chicken paste is so fucking ugh) into our mouths and into our kids mouths is just beyond disgusting.
the way we handle meat in first world countries is gross.
I call bullshit.
"People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know,"
I don't know anyone who believes this.
people having no respect for the proteins they eat is irresponsible and pathetic.
i love my dog. i love my cat, i love my mice. i would never eat them. but i have respect for every other living thing on this planet and i acknowledge them as a conscious beings despite the fact that i can't say i love them personally.