article_snippet.sent: Family affair: Also watching from the audience was Gisele's parents Vania and Valdir as well as Vania sister Gabriela .
article_snippet.sent: , Gisele rivals soccer legend Pele for the status of Brazil's most internationally famous citizen, and Gisele meteoric rise from a middle-class family in a small, rural town to superstar is the stuff of modeling legend.
article_snippet.sent: On Wednesday Gisele told Gisele followers: 'Today after 20 years in the industry it is a privilege to be doing my last fashion show by choice and yet still be working in other facets of the business.
article_snippet.sent: Gisele has been called the last remaining true supermodel by Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campell, pictured at the Victoria's Secrets Secret fashion Show in New York in 2003 .
article_snippet.sent: Gisele was born and raised along with five sisters, including a fraternal twin, in the southern state of Rio Grande
article_snippet.sent: Gisele was discovered by a modeling agency at age 14 and Gisele came in second place in a nationwide modeling contest, before moving to New York to work the fashion runways there.
article_snippet.sent: By age 20, Gisele'd become a fashion sensation, Gisele freckled face and flowing dirty blond locks gracing the cover of top fashion magazines worldwide and Gisele unique combination of legginess and curves causing a sensation during Gisele runway appearances.
article_snippet.sent: According to Forbes, Gisele is worth $386 million and has amassed $47 million in the last year alone, thanks to Gisele lucrative campaigns for Chanel,
article_snippet.sent: That amounts to Gisele pocketing $128,000 a day - dwarfing Linda Evangelista who famously declared Gisele wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 .
article_snippet.sent: The highest-paid supermodel for the last ten years, Gisele plans to publish a coffee table book and appear in a documentary on Gisele life.
article_snippet.sent: Forbes list Gisele as the 89th most powerful woman in the world.
article_snippet.sent: Gisele ventured into acting and appeared in fashion flick