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Newlywed Gisele Dreams of Big Family With Brady

She's 'in that place' now

By Ambreen Ali, Newser User

Posted Mar 11, 2009 7:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Though she claims not to fit the “supermodel” label, there is one Gisele Bundchen wouldn’t mind trying on, she tells Harper’s Bazaar: mother. The 6-foot, size-4 Brazilian bombshell recently wed NFL star Tom Brady and is contemplating her next move. “I want to have a big family,” Bundchen, 28, confesses.

“My parents have been together for 36 years, and that is what I want,” Bundchen says. “I am in that place.” Not so 6 years ago, when she “was drinking a lot of red wine, smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day, and eating cheeseburgers.” A few self-help books later, Bundchen has become a sexual icon Donatella Versace describes as “one of a kind.”

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In this May 5, 2008 file photo, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

Brazil's top model Gisele Bundchen gestures during Sunday's carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil's top model Gisele Bundchen wears a creation by Colcci during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/ Andre Penner)

Brazil's top model Gisele Bundchen gestures while posing for pictures during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Tom Brady of the New England Patriots and Giselle Bundchen watch as the Detroit Pistons play the Boston Celtics last year. (Getty Images)

Gisele Bundchen graces the cover of Harper's Bazaar next month. (Harper's Bazaar)

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He has a very pure heart.
He's very naive, almost like a child. That is my favorite quality about him.
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