Gisele Bündchen Recalls Attending Oscars With Leonardo DiCaprio and the Runway Outfit That Made Her Cry
etonline.comGisele Bündchen has memories to last a lifetime. In a newly released video for, the 41-year-old supermodel revisited many milestones — and the outfits she wore to go with them — including the night she accompanied then-boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio to the 2005 Academy Awards.
At the time, the actor had been nominated for Best Actor for his performance in and Bündchen, sporting an embellished strapless dress designed by John Galliano for Dior, was at his side as they posed along the red carpet. «When you go to a place like the Oscars, there’s, like, a lot of people and everyone is screaming,» she described. «I remember just feeling a bit, like, squeezing his hand and being, like, 'OK, I’m here.'»While the two have since gone their separate ways — Bündchen married Tom Brady four years later — the memory of that event is a cherished one. «It was nice to experience that once in a lifetime,» she said, «and I love that dress.»By that point, Bündchen was far from the unknown model she had been in 1998 when she walked the Alexander McQueen runway for the first time.
While she's since called it her first «big break,» it was not without tears. «This was one of the most traumatizing moments,» she said when presented with a photo of herself on the runway, donning a see-through metallic string top with her breasts visible.
As the star recalled, she had gotten picked for the show after dozens of unsuccessful castings in the midst of the «heroin chic» era.
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