Gisele Bündchen talks motherhood, panic attacks and plastic surgery
Gisele Bundchen once battled panic attacks so severe she considered suicide https://t.co/6g9FGkMbh9
- TIME (@TIME) September 26, 2018
- Model Gisele is promoting her new memoir Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life
- Circa 2003 after experiencing turbulence on a small plane she began experiencing claustrophobia which led to panic attacks
- They began to increase in frequency to the point where she contemplated suicide
- Admits to feeling guilty because she was extremely successful and had always thought of herself as a positive person so she didn't understand why she was having mental health problems
- Her Drs originally prescribed xanax but she decided to try and beat her problems without the help of medication
- Credits a change in diet, yoga, meditation and breaking up with Leonardo DiCaprio with helping
- Also admits to having surgery on her breasts in 2015 after nursing her two children left her with one breast that was saggier than the other
- The surgery made her feel worse about her body and she said she regretted it afterwards and spent a year wearing baggy clothes
- Found it difficult to be a mother because she had always been very independent and she had to switch to always being available and caring for someone else