Gisele Bündchen’s mother, Vania Nonnenmacher, has reportedly passed away at age 75.
Brazilian outlet GZH reports she died in the hospital Sunday following a battle with cancer.
According to the outlet, she had been admitted to Hospital Moinhos de Vento in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for treatment.
Nonnenmacher was a mother to six girls: Rafaela, Graziela, Gabriela and Raquel, along with Gisele and her twin sister, Patricia.
The supermodel originally wanted to be a professional volleyball player but in 1993 her mother enrolled her and sisters Patricia and Gabriela in a modeling course to teach them posture and give them some confidence.
After the course ended, the girls were rewarded with a trip to Rio de Janeiro, where Bündchen was discovered by Elite Model Management at a shopping mall.
Earlier this month the Brazilian stunner, 43, opened up about her parents’ health while promoting her upcoming cookbook, “Nourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body and Feed Your Soul.”
Speaking to Harpers Bazaar, Bündchen, who shares children, Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 11, with her ex-husband, retired NFL great Tom Brady, revealed that she overhauled her diet after watching her parents grapple with health issues.
“I want to live the longest feeling the best that I can, but for me to achieve this, I have to make decisions today,” she explained.
“You can have all the money in the world. If you don’t have your health, it’s not possible to buy it back.”
She kicked off the new year by sharing a rare snap with all five of her sisters in a sweet roundup of family photos.
“Reconnecting with the essential ❤️ sending love and wishing a happy and blessed 2024 to all!” she captioned an Instagram post.
In one of the pics, she posed with mom Vânia and dad Valdir, as well as her five sisters, Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and Patricia, her fraternal twin.
The wellness guru has reflected in the past on her happy childhood.
She wrote about having the “best childhood in the world” in her 2018 memoir, “Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life.”
“When I was growing up in Horizontina, [Brazil], there were six of us girls at the dinner table, six voices rising up to talk or laugh or disagree at once,” she penned.
“One day my dad made a rule: if one of us had something to say, we needed to raise our hand.”
A rep for the former Victoria’s Secret model did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
