Which supermodel was born in 1975 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil?

Gisele Bündchen was born in 1975 in Horizontina, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.

She was discovered by a modeling scout while visiting a shopping mall as a teenager and rose internationally during the late 1990s. Her long, athletic runway style helped symbolize a shift in fashion toward a healthier, more commercially powerful model image.

Bündchen became one of the highest-paid models in the world and worked with designers, luxury brands and major magazines. Her birthplace is sometimes broadly described as southern Brazil, but the specific city is Horizontina. She is also frequently associated with São Paulo because she began developing her modeling career there before moving into international fashion.