Anyone who gave a shit about celebrities in the 00s was WELL across the seemingly fairytale romance that was Gisele Bündchen and Leonardo DiCaprio. The pair dated for five years, which for Leo was an eternity. Everyone was CONVINCED they’d be ~together 4evaaaa~, so their shock breakup in 2005 sent all those tabloid mags into a RIGHT SPIN, let me tell you.
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Since their split, Gisele has remained pretty quiet as to why she ditched the actor – but now, over a decade later, she’s opened up about the reasons why she RUINED THE CUTEST COUPLE IN HOLLYWOOD. Turns out, there was a very, very valid reason.
To promote her new self-help book Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life, she ex-supermodel chatted to Porter about her life back then, explaining that she was “living out of a suitcase, subsisting on mocha Frappuccinos, cigarettes and wine.”
Eventually, Gisele decided she wanted to change her lifestyle – she cut back on the caffeine and alcohol, started meditating, and cut back on modelling work. It was around this time that she also looked at her relationship critically.
“No longer numbing myself with smoking, drinking and too much work, I was becoming more and more aware of things that I’d chosen not to look at. Was I alone in wanting to do some serious soul-searching while he stayed the same? In the end, unfortunately, the answer was yes.”
Given Leo is still dating models in their twenties and partying on yachts and in mansions and so on, it seems like Gisele made the right choice. But also like, you do you Leo.
