Gisele Bündchen.Photo:Steve Eichner/WWD via GettyGisele Bündchensays overcoming the depression and panic attacks that she faced when she was younger “was a long journey.”“I had no idea that it was correlated with my lifestyle — and food was a big part of it,” the supermodel said while appearing onThe Viewto talk about hernew cookbook,Nourish.“I had severe depression and panic attacks in my twenties,” Bündchen, who turns 44 in July, explained.When co-hostJoy Beharsuggested her mental state “had to do with the fact that youleft your family at 14” to pursue a modeling career, Bündchen said, “I actually was loving [it]. I felt really independent. I was emancipated at 14 and I was living in Japan and moved to New York at 15. But I thought it was an amazing life … I just felt very grateful that I had a job and I was traveling the world.”Gisele Bündchen in Paris in 1998.Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via GettyIt wasn’t until her early twenties when Bündchen said, “I started having severe panic attacks … I didn’t know what do.”Symptoms of a panic attack include a sense of doom, a rapid heart rate, sweating, trembling and shortness of breath, according to theMayo Clinic, which adds, “One of the worst things about panic attacks is the intense fear that you’ll have another one.”Bündchen said she sought help for “over a year and a half” — and nothing worked.“I wanted to feel better, I didn’t know what to do, so I found this amazingnaturopathand he said to me, ‘Gisele, we have to change your diet.’ And I was like, ‘Diet, what does that have to do with panic attacks?’ And he’s like, ‘No, it has everything to do with it.’ ”Gisele Bündchen shares the cover of her cookbook ‘Nourish’.Gisele Bundchen/Instagram“I told him about my day. I drink, I smoke, I have coffee — and he said ‘Listen… stop right there.’ He says, ‘You’re not sleeping. You’re in different time zones all the time. You’re eating, like, terrible all day.’ ”As she explained, “I was the kind of person who was like, ‘As long as it’s in the supermarket, it’s great to eat.’ Anything. I was just like, ‘Let me eat it.’ With comfort food, you’re traveling, you’re tired.”Gisele Bündchen arrives to ‘The View’ in New York City.WavyPeter / SplashNews.comThat’s when co-hostSunny Hostinchimed in that “French fries taste very good when you’re tired.”Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“Yeah, and chocolate and cookies and all that stuff,” Bündchen agreed. “So basically, I was just eating everything and not conscious [of it]. And he said, ‘We’re going to have to change your diet. We’re going to have to have at least eight hours of sleep. And, we’re going to have to exercise daily.’ If you do those three things, you’re going to feel better.”“After having a year and a half of what I would say [was] one of the worst times in my life, everything changed. I became a different person. I started practicing meditation. I started practicing yoga. I started practicing breath work.”“It was a long journey,” she said. “We’re habitual beings. If we do something every day, we’re going to be comfortable, which is why I was doing that.”“But what I was doing was actually bad for my health and the condition that I was in but I wasn’t correlating [my diet with my mental health] until he told me," Bündchen said. “Until I experienced it in my own body.”
Gisele Bündchen.Photo:Steve Eichner/WWD via Getty
Steve Eichner/WWD via Getty
Gisele Bündchensays overcoming the depression and panic attacks that she faced when she was younger “was a long journey.”“I had no idea that it was correlated with my lifestyle — and food was a big part of it,” the supermodel said while appearing onThe Viewto talk about hernew cookbook,Nourish.“I had severe depression and panic attacks in my twenties,” Bündchen, who turns 44 in July, explained.When co-hostJoy Beharsuggested her mental state “had to do with the fact that youleft your family at 14” to pursue a modeling career, Bündchen said, “I actually was loving [it]. I felt really independent. I was emancipated at 14 and I was living in Japan and moved to New York at 15. But I thought it was an amazing life … I just felt very grateful that I had a job and I was traveling the world.”Gisele Bündchen in Paris in 1998.Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via GettyIt wasn’t until her early twenties when Bündchen said, “I started having severe panic attacks … I didn’t know what do.”Symptoms of a panic attack include a sense of doom, a rapid heart rate, sweating, trembling and shortness of breath, according to theMayo Clinic, which adds, “One of the worst things about panic attacks is the intense fear that you’ll have another one.”Bündchen said she sought help for “over a year and a half” — and nothing worked.“I wanted to feel better, I didn’t know what to do, so I found this amazingnaturopathand he said to me, ‘Gisele, we have to change your diet.’ And I was like, ‘Diet, what does that have to do with panic attacks?’ And he’s like, ‘No, it has everything to do with it.’ ”Gisele Bündchen shares the cover of her cookbook ‘Nourish’.Gisele Bundchen/Instagram“I told him about my day. I drink, I smoke, I have coffee — and he said ‘Listen… stop right there.’ He says, ‘You’re not sleeping. You’re in different time zones all the time. You’re eating, like, terrible all day.’ ”As she explained, “I was the kind of person who was like, ‘As long as it’s in the supermarket, it’s great to eat.’ Anything. I was just like, ‘Let me eat it.’ With comfort food, you’re traveling, you’re tired.”Gisele Bündchen arrives to ‘The View’ in New York City.WavyPeter / SplashNews.comThat’s when co-hostSunny Hostinchimed in that “French fries taste very good when you’re tired.”Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“Yeah, and chocolate and cookies and all that stuff,” Bündchen agreed. “So basically, I was just eating everything and not conscious [of it]. And he said, ‘We’re going to have to change your diet. We’re going to have to have at least eight hours of sleep. And, we’re going to have to exercise daily.’ If you do those three things, you’re going to feel better.”“After having a year and a half of what I would say [was] one of the worst times in my life, everything changed. I became a different person. I started practicing meditation. I started practicing yoga. I started practicing breath work.”“It was a long journey,” she said. “We’re habitual beings. If we do something every day, we’re going to be comfortable, which is why I was doing that.”“But what I was doing was actually bad for my health and the condition that I was in but I wasn’t correlating [my diet with my mental health] until he told me,” Bündchen said. “Until I experienced it in my own body.”
Gisele Bündchensays overcoming the depression and panic attacks that she faced when she was younger “was a long journey.”
“I had no idea that it was correlated with my lifestyle — and food was a big part of it,” the supermodel said while appearing onThe Viewto talk about hernew cookbook,Nourish.
“I had severe depression and panic attacks in my twenties,” Bündchen, who turns 44 in July, explained.
When co-hostJoy Beharsuggested her mental state “had to do with the fact that youleft your family at 14” to pursue a modeling career, Bündchen said, “I actually was loving [it]. I felt really independent. I was emancipated at 14 and I was living in Japan and moved to New York at 15. But I thought it was an amazing life … I just felt very grateful that I had a job and I was traveling the world.”
Gisele Bündchen in Paris in 1998.Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
It wasn’t until her early twenties when Bündchen said, “I started having severe panic attacks … I didn’t know what do.”
Symptoms of a panic attack include a sense of doom, a rapid heart rate, sweating, trembling and shortness of breath, according to theMayo Clinic, which adds, “One of the worst things about panic attacks is the intense fear that you’ll have another one.”
Bündchen said she sought help for “over a year and a half” — and nothing worked.
“I wanted to feel better, I didn’t know what to do, so I found this amazingnaturopathand he said to me, ‘Gisele, we have to change your diet.’ And I was like, ‘Diet, what does that have to do with panic attacks?’ And he’s like, ‘No, it has everything to do with it.’ ”
Gisele Bündchen shares the cover of her cookbook ‘Nourish’.Gisele Bundchen/Instagram
Gisele Bundchen/Instagram
“I told him about my day. I drink, I smoke, I have coffee — and he said ‘Listen… stop right there.’ He says, ‘You’re not sleeping. You’re in different time zones all the time. You’re eating, like, terrible all day.’ ”
As she explained, “I was the kind of person who was like, ‘As long as it’s in the supermarket, it’s great to eat.’ Anything. I was just like, ‘Let me eat it.’ With comfort food, you’re traveling, you’re tired.”
Gisele Bündchen arrives to ‘The View’ in New York City.WavyPeter / SplashNews.com
WavyPeter / SplashNews.com
That’s when co-hostSunny Hostinchimed in that “French fries taste very good when you’re tired.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
“Yeah, and chocolate and cookies and all that stuff,” Bündchen agreed. “So basically, I was just eating everything and not conscious [of it]. And he said, ‘We’re going to have to change your diet. We’re going to have to have at least eight hours of sleep. And, we’re going to have to exercise daily.’ If you do those three things, you’re going to feel better.”
“After having a year and a half of what I would say [was] one of the worst times in my life, everything changed. I became a different person. I started practicing meditation. I started practicing yoga. I started practicing breath work.”
“It was a long journey,” she said. “We’re habitual beings. If we do something every day, we’re going to be comfortable, which is why I was doing that.”
“But what I was doing was actually bad for my health and the condition that I was in but I wasn’t correlating [my diet with my mental health] until he told me,” Bündchen said. “Until I experienced it in my own body.”
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