I had severe depression and panic attacks. In my early twenties, Gisele
Bundchen is opening up on the view. The supermodel sat down with the woman at
the view to talk about her new cookbook nourish. During her appearance, she
reveals how building a better relationship with food helped her
overcome severe panic attacks and depression. I had severe and panic
attacks in my early twenties. But I had no idea that it was correlated with my
lifestyle and food was a big part of it. Maybe it had to do with the fact that
you left your family at 14. You think that, you know, I actually was loving,
I felt like really independent, you know, I was emancipated at 14, you know,
and I was living in Japan and then to New York at 15. And, but II, I thought
it was an amazing life. I was working seven days a week and I was in the
hamster wheel and I just wasn't conscious, you know, when you're 14,
what do you know when you go into the world? And I just, I felt like very
grateful that I had a job and I was traveling the world and I, I wasn't
really paying attention, you know, I was just, like, going, like, 100 miles
an hour and until, like, I start having severe panic attacks in my early
twenties and I didn't know what to do. And it's been over a year and a half
and I was going to all the specialists. I just wanted to, I wanted to feel
better. I didn't know what to do. So I found this amazing naturopath. And then
he said to me, Gisele, we have to change your diet. And I was like, diet.
What does that have to do with my panic attack? And he's like, no, it has
everything to do with it. So he's like, listen, the way you eat. Then I told
him about my day I drink, I smoke. I, I start, I have coffee. I, you know,
whatever. And he's, and he says, listen, adrenaline. He called me adrenaline and
he's like, stop right there. He says you're not sleeping, you're, you're
like in different time zones all the time. You're eating like terrible all
day. I mean, I was the type of person who was just as long as it's in the
supermarket is great for me to eat anything, anything. You know, I was
just like, let me eat it and, you know, with comfort food you're traveling,
you're tired, you're just like French fries tastes really good when you're
tired. Yeah. And, and chocolate and cookie, you know, all that stuff. So
basically II, I was just eating everything and not conscious. And he
says we're gonna have to change your diet. We're gonna have to have at least
eight hours of sleep and we're gonna have to exercise daily. If you do those,
those three things, you're gonna feel better after having a year and a half
of, like, I would say, one of the worst times in my life I, everything changed.
I like I became a different person. I, I start practicing meditation. I start
practicing yoga. I start practicing breathwork and it's incredible how just
by changing we're habitual beings. So we're gonna be, you know, if we do
something every day, we're just gonna be comfortable with that and continue
doing that, which is what I was doing. But what I was doing was actually
destroying my health and creating the condition I was in, but I wasn't
correlating until he told me to experience it in my own body. So it was
the first time I started experiencing with food, you know, earlier this month
during a sit down interview with abc's Robin Roberts, she got emotional
talking about her life following her split from former NFL quarterback Tom
Brady. How are you?
Well, when you say
sorry, guys, I didn't know, can I have a little moment?
Sorry,
but let me just breathe
deep breath.
OK? It's definitely a time of, you know, a transition that had to take place and
it's not something that you, you, I don't think you, you wish for that, you
know. But I think sometimes in life things happen. I feel so blessed
because like I wouldn't change anything life I have, you know, I had incredible
experiences. I learned so much. I have my Children which are the biggest
blessings in my life. And now I get to create a new season. It's a new chapter
in my life and I get to learn new things and I get to, to, to walk my
path in a different way, you know, and I, and I'm grateful for all of it. I'm
grateful for every lesson, what it's like co parenting and how it feels to
return to modeling on her own terms. I think it's been, you know,
well, I think, you know, there's easier days than other. But I think, you know,
it's, it's amazing that the kids, they, they're super smart Children, they know
what they can get away with. So I think it's natural that it has different
rules and then kids just adapt and they're gonna try to do what they want
and I can only control what I do. And I think for me now is really a, the
balance. Now we have, you know, Tom has time with them and I have time with
them, which I think is amazing because they get to, you know, really
experience, you know, again, more enriching for their lives, two
different worlds and they get to learn from two different worlds and that's
wonderful for them. I think I feel very lucky because I get to work with all my
friends, people that I've known for so many years
when I used to do all these jobs, it used to be like, you know, 360 days I
worked. It was a different tone. Like when everybody's pulling your hair and
doing all that stuff, it felt like, you know, wow, it's like you just need a
moment for yourself. But now it's more spaced out the jobs that I do because
of course, after I became a mom that became my priority. So when I work
today, it feels like kind of a little bit of a time to like nurture myself in
a way which is so funny how that changes Gisele and Tom announced their
plans to divorce back in October 2022. After 13 years of marriage, Tom said
this on his Instagram. At the time, we arrived at this decision amicably and
with gratitude for the time we spent together, we are blessed with beautiful
and wonderful Children who will continue to be the center of our world
in every way we will continue to work together as parents to always ensure
they receive the love and attention they deserve. Tom and Gisele. Share son
Benjamin and daughter Vivian. Tom also shares son Jack with ex-girlfriend
actress Bridget Moynihan