The 43-year-old supermodel, divorced mother of two children from her marriage to NFL superstar Tom Brady, and self-described introvert, has found peace in making a part-time home in Costa Rica.
The Nicoya Peninsula, on the coast of Costa Rica, is not the easiest place to get to. It's home to a beautifully chaotic town called Santa Theresa, full of expats and world-class surfers. Here, being far from everything is exactly the point, especially for the person who invited"Sunday Morning" here: Gisele Bündchen.
"They weren't hiring Gisele; they didn't even know me," she said."They just liked the way I looked and they liked the way my body looked in clothes, I guess. I've done that. I understand that. And now, I get to be me." But it was between the glitz and the glamour – the rare times she was alone -- that she sometimes wished she'd never been discovered at all."Everybody looked at me from the outside and thought I had it all, right?" Bündchen said."And I was feeling like I was living this life that was just, like ..." "Exactly.
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