Gisele Bündchen was a nobody who took everybody a lot of convincing before she became a somebody, according to Mario Testino.
"Nobody liked her, nobody wanted her," says the photographer and apparently Bündchen's biggest cheerleader in an interview with The Guardian . "I had to fight to get her into my stories because nobody thought she was right - too this, too that, the nose, the breasts, the waist. But I believe in being obsessed, in getting obsessed."
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Nice to know that the world's most in-demand model - she made $45 million last year, putting her wage packet above Kate Moss, Heidi Klum et al , and will be the first billionaire supermodel, according to Forbes - wasn't always so wanted (she was rejected by 42 modelling agencies at the start of her career). Maybe she should give royalties to Testino, who has shot her for everything from Vogue to the Pirelli calendar and his coffee-table book, Mario De Janeiro Testino .
Testino, 57, also reveals that his famous shoot with Princess Diana for Vanity Fair in 1997 was a side-splitting affair ("We died laughing"); Sean Penn is the person he wants to reallllllly photograph, but never has, but, oh, wait a minute, silly him, he already has ("It's a great picture - he's lighting a cigarette for Naomi Campbell"); and Anna Wintour once summoned him to shoot a passport photo of her (who could blame her? The lighting in photobooths turn even the Monica Belluccis of this world into Myra Hindleys).
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