I´m excited to announce the publication of my book, “Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life.” Looking back on some of the experiences I have lived through these past 37 years, what I’ve learned, the values that guided me and the tools that have helped me become who I am, has been a profound and transformative experience. I’m happy I get to share with you my journey through many of the ups and downs that made me who I am today! (Link bio or http://bit.ly/LessonsbyGisele) ✨📔🤗 Animada para dividir com vocês o meu livro. Resgatar algumas histórias que vivi, o que aprendi nestes meus 37 anos, assim como os valores e as ferramentas que me guiaram para chegar onde cheguei tem sido uma experiência profunda e transformadora. Fico feliz em poder compartilhar um pouco desta jornada de altos e baixos que me trouxeram até aqui. http://bit.ly/LessonsbyGisele

A post shared by Gisele Bündchen (@gisele) on Mar 21, 2018 at 4:29am PDT

I think I’m just the kind of person/woman who is left cold by the wellness/self-help movements. I find them trendy (and therefore bad) and full of bad science and full of bullsh-t culture-vulturism of actual ancient practices, religions and more. But a lot of people buy into it. A lot of people literally spend thousands of dollars on “wellness” stuff every years. Everybody’s searching for something, I guess. Anyway, I was thinking about all of that as I read about Gisele’s new book. It sounds like it’s part-memoir and part-Goopy-Gisele-living self-help. Like, aspirational and inspirational, with stories about modeling and crazy diets. You too can live like Gisele if only you have the right genes and a good plastic surgeon. There are apparently 256 pages of that. Here’s the summary:

Gisele Bündchen’s journey began in southern Brazil where she grew up sharing a bedroom with her five sisters and bullied by her classmates. At the age of 14, fate intervened suddenly in Sao Paolo in the form of a modeling scout. Four years later, Gisele’s appearance in Alexander McQueen’s runway show in London launched her spectacular career as a fashion model, while also putting an end to the “heroin chic” era in fashion. Since then, Gisele has appeared in 600 ad campaigns, over 2000 magazine covers and walked in more than 800 fashion shows for the most influential brands in the world.

But until now, few people have gotten to know the real Gisele, a woman whose private life stands in dramatic contrast to her public image. In Lessons, a work of deep vulnerability, courage and honesty, Gisele reveals for the first time what she’s learned over the past 37 years that has helped her live a meaningful life–a journey that takes readers from a childhood spent barefoot in Brazil, to a internationally successful career, motherhood and marriage to quarterback Tom Brady.

Intimate, questing, practical and timely, Lessons reveals the inner life of a very public woman — one that will inspire women of all ages to uncover their own power, meaning and purpose.

[From Fashion Week Daily]

If I thought this was going to be an honest-to-God tell-all memoir, then I would be all over it. I would look forward to it and I would look forward to the excerpts and the shady stories and all of that. But come on – we know Gisele at this point. We know what she’s going to do. This is a “memoir” Trojan horse. She’s trying to sell us Goop in a Brazilian package. BEWARE.

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