Ellen Was Gisele Bündchen's Good Luck Charm for Meeting Tom Brady — Transcript

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1. 0:00So Gisele, hi.
2. 0:01Hi.
3. 0:02You were here in 2006.
4. 0:04You were single.
5. 0:04You had no kids.
6. 0:06Nothing.
7. 0:06All of a sudden, your whole life has changed.
8. 0:09And it happened--
9. 0:09Well, 12 years, right?
10. 0:10Yeah.
11. 0:11I know.
12. 0:11But it was right after you were here, you met--
13. 0:14I went on a blind date.
14. 0:15Yes.
15. 0:15And I met my husband.
16. 0:16So I think you might have been my lucky good luck charm.
17. 0:18I think so.
18. 0:19I think so.
19. 0:20I think so.
20. 0:20Thank you.
21. 0:21Yeah, you're welcome.
22. 0:2212 years later, I think, I'm very happy with how
23. 0:24things turned out.
24. 0:25So I appreciate it.
25. 0:26Yeah.
26. 0:26Well, you're welcome.
27. 0:27[APPLAUSE]
28. 0:32Oh, yeah.
29. 0:32Isn't he sweet?
30. 0:34Look.
31. 0:34Who comes with that shirt?
32. 0:36He is a sweet, sweet man.
33. 0:38And talented.
34. 0:39Both of you.
35. 0:41You're easy on the eyes, both of you.
36. 0:43All right.
37. 0:44I think he wore that shirt because my dad likes to say
38. 0:46a happy life is a happy wife.
39. 0:47So I think he took that very seriously.
40. 0:49Right.
41. 0:49Well, he's right.
42. 0:51All right.
43. 0:51So you have a wonderful family.
44. 0:53Your career is great.
45. 0:55And I heard, is this true?
46. 0:56That you're thinking of retiring?
47. 0:59I think I'm the farthest I've ever been from retiring.
48. 1:02It doesn't seem like it.
49. 1:03I've never worked so hard in my life, actually.
50. 1:05Yeah.
51. 1:06But I think I retire only the day I die,
52. 1:07because I love working.
53. 1:08I love creating.
54. 1:09I think that's why we're here, to keep creating and expanding
55. 1:13and learning.
56. 1:14I agree.
57. 1:15So good.
58. 1:15So you're not retiring.
59. 1:17What I'd like to know is--
60. 1:18Are you?
61. 1:19No, I'm not.
62. 1:20I'd like to know if your husband is.
63. 1:22Because I'm a Saints fan, and it would help
64. 1:23me tremendously if your husband would retire.
65. 1:27You know, I think you should talk with him about that.
66. 1:30I haven't been very successful.
67. 1:32No.
68. 1:32No.
69. 1:33Do you want him to retire?
70. 1:34I want him to do whatever makes him happy.
71. 1:36But maybe if you have a conversation with him.
72. 1:39Explain that you love the Saints.
73. 1:41Yeah.
74. 1:41He might have--
75. 1:42And I love them, too.
76. 1:43I really do.
77. 1:43He's incredible.
78. 1:44Is there anything that he's not good at?
79. 1:46Because he just seems like he's good at everything.
80. 1:51He's not a multi-tasker.
81. 1:52He can just do one thing at a time.
82. 1:54Oh, really?
83. 1:55Yeah.
84. 1:55He's good at one thing at time.
85. 1:57He's an amazing waffle maker.
86. 1:59Oh.
87. 1:59Yeah.
88. 2:00That's great.
89. 2:01He makes great waffles.
90. 2:02That's right.
91. 2:03The kind that you just literally push that thing down,
92. 2:05and it's--?
93. 2:06Well, he actually makes the batter.
94. 2:08And he jokes with me.
95. 2:09He says, I can't give you the secret.
96. 2:11Otherwise you won't need me anymore.
97. 2:13Oh.
98. 2:14He has a secret recipe, which I'm
99. 2:17sure there's some package thing involved.
100. 2:19But there's other secret recipes.
101. 2:21I have never seen him making it because he literally
102. 2:23won't let me see it.
103. 2:24Because he literally says, you won't need me.
104. 2:26And then who is going to--?
105. 2:27Yeah.
106. 2:28So I say, OK.
107. 2:28That's fine.
108. 2:29It tastes delicious.
109. 2:30I'll keep eating them.
110. 2:31Now do you get nervous?
111. 2:33I mean, I would just think--
112. 2:34you hear so much about everyone, and you see those hits,
113. 2:38and they're so hard.
114. 2:38And he's the quarterback, so they're going after him.
115. 2:42Do you worry about that?
116. 2:43I definitely wouldn't want to have his job.
117. 2:44That's for sure.
118. 2:45Yeah.
119. 2:45I stay happy with my job.
120. 2:47That's, I think, is definitely something
121. 2:50that you get concerned.
122. 2:51But he loves it so much.
123. 2:52And you gotta let him do what he loves.
124. 2:55Well, he's definitely very talented.
125. 2:57I'm so glad you wrote this book.
126. 2:59And I think it's important for so many people,
127. 3:01because you look at someone, and you're beautiful,
128. 3:04and you've got an amazing marriage and kids,
129. 3:06and your family life is great, and career life is great.
130. 3:10And people don't know.
131. 3:11We just tend to judge just from what we see,
132. 3:13and we just assume we know somebody.
133. 3:16And I think it's so important that you share with everyone
134. 3:19what you've gone through.
135. 3:20Yeah.
136. 3:21So explain some of the things that you share,
137. 3:25and why you decided to.
138. 3:27So there was lots of different people that I
139. 3:31knew well, and also acquaintances,
140. 3:33that would come to me and share stories of people
141. 3:35that they knew that were struggling
142. 3:36with various different things.
143. 3:38And I started writing letters to people that I've never met,
144. 3:41just by sharing something.
145. 3:43I just didn't want them to feel alone, because it was--
146. 3:47I feel like I'm very sensitive.
147. 3:49So when people are telling the stories, I was feeling better.
148. 3:52And I just wanted to make them feel better.
149. 3:53So I start sharing, writing letters to people,
150. 3:56and sharing some of the challenges that I face,
151. 3:58and just being very vulnerable and saying
152. 4:00there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
153. 4:02Because I know when you're in the middle of the storm,
154. 4:04sometimes you don't see there is a light
155. 4:06in the end of the tunnel.
156. 4:07You identify with that, and that kind of
157. 4:09gets you down deeper into the space
158. 4:12where it's hard to sometimes feel like there's a way out.
159. 4:15So it was very helpful, the feedback I got,
160. 4:18that it was really helpful to those people.
161. 4:20And I thought, I just want to be able to share.
162. 4:23And maybe other people out there might find it helpful.
163. 4:28So that was really the intention of the book.
164. 4:30It's a beautiful book.
165. 4:32And for you to share that you almost took your life, there
166. 4:36a lot of people that are going to relate to that
167. 4:38and say, wow, if she was at that place
168. 4:40that you thought about ending your life, then, you know--
169. 4:44And there were so many different things
170. 4:46that I found that were helpful throughout my journey.
171. 4:48And I just wanted to share that with people.
172. 4:50It is.
173. 4:50It's very helpful.
174. 4:52It's called Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life.
175. 4:54It's available in bookstores and on Amazon Now.
176. 4:56We'll be right back.