GISELE BUNDCHEN

Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful.

Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

Gossip is poison.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it on the hanger, and I go home.' And that's what I do.

For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

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.

I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got.

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are.

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.