Gisele Bündchen Shares How She Overcame “Severe Depression and Panic Attacks”

Gisele Bündchen is reflecting on her mental health journey. 

The 43-year-old recently looked back at her battle with depression and panic attacks in her 20s. 

After becoming a model at age 14, Gisele found her schedule packed with work and travel. However, she admits she wasn't focusing on her health. 

"I wasn't really paying attention," she said on the March 21 episode of The View. "I was just going, like, 100 miles an hour—until I start having severe panic attacks in my early 20s and I didn't know what to do. It had been over a year and a half, and I was going to all the specialists. I wanted to feel betterคำพูดจาก Game Casino. I didn't know what to do."

So, the former runway star consulted a naturopath, who advised her to change the way she ate.คำพูดจาก Web Game Casino

"I told him about my day," she recalled, "'I drink, I smoke, I have coffee,' whatever. And he says, 'Listen, Adrenalina,'—he called me Adrenalina. He's like, 'Stop right there.' He says, ‘You're not sleeping. You're like in different time zones all the time. You're eating, like, terrible all day.' I mean, I was the type of person who was just, 'As long as it's in the supermarket, it's great for me to eat.' Anything. I was just like, 'Let me eat it.' With comfort food, you're traveling, you're tired."

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The mom of two said the naturopath also told her to get at least eight hours of sleep a night and to exercise daily.

"After having a year and a half of I would say one of the worst times in my life, everything changed," she remembered. "Like, I became a different person. I started practicing meditation. I started practicing yoga. I started practicing breath work."

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And now, Gisele—who said that, for her, food is like "medicine"—has a new approach to the way she eats.

"For me, the whole thing about food has become, where is it coming from? How is it grown?" the cookbook author, who has been promoting her latest one Nourish, recently told WSJ. Magazine. "It's about having simple foods. I see my body as a temple. I don't want to feel sluggish after I eat. I don't want to have a stomachache or be constipated. My whole goal is to live the longest I can living the best life that I can."

To read what more stars have shared about their own personal journeys, keep reading.