Speaking to People in September 2023—almost a year after her highly-publicized split from retired NFL star Tom Brady—Gisele Bündchen revealed she’s given up her wine habit.
“Right after I turned 40, actually, I felt a huge difference between when I had the glass of wine and when I didn’t have the glass of wine,” she told the outlet. “It’s socially accepted to have a glass of wine. And people even say, ‘Oh, it’s healthy for you.’ Well, it is not healthy for me. If you want to ask of your body what I ask of my body, which is a lot, I can’t be having all these things (alcohol, caffeine) because they add up.”
The super model, now 43, has a lot on her plate at the moment, between work, co-parenting her two children, and caring for her aging parents. When she quit drinking, she says she “immediately” felt “more clear.”
“I felt a bit more foggy before. Now I’m very sharp and very present and I notice things that I didn’t notice before. When I’m not drinking, I’m sleeping much better,” she continued. “You have to be loving to yourself. You ask a lot of your body, you’ve got to do a reset. You have got to take care of this only vehicle you got, right?”
