Gisele Bundchen is one of the most successful models of all time.
But when she got her start in the US in 1996, the Brazilian beauty was not being hired much as she did not have the same look as the stars that came before her, such as Cindy Crawford and Kate Moss.
The import was hearing ‘no over and over’ again when taking meetings in New York City alone as a 15-year-old.
‘Rejection had taught me resilience and not to base my self-worth on other people’s opinions,’ she told W magazine’s The Summer Issue.
But then there was an overnight change when Vogue
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