“My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.”

Brazilian supermodel and activist

Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian supermodel and activist. Since 2001, she has ranked among the highest-paid models in the world, and she is widely seen as one of the most influential supermodels of all time. She is credited with helping reshape fashion's beauty standards and with ushering in a new period of global supermodel dominance. Forbes placed her at the top of its highest-paid models list from 2005 to 2016, ranked her as the 16th-richest woman in entertainment in 2007, and listed her as the 89th most powerful woman in media and entertainment in 2014.