Gisele Bündchen’s ‘Obsessed With Desserts’: ‘I Have Dessert Every Day’
Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady are known for what they do and don’t eat. Their careers as a supermodel and a star quarterback in the NFL mean having a healthy body is essential. But that doesn’t mean their kitchen is void of any desserts. In fact, dessert is always on the menu for Bündchen.
Gisele Bündchen’s ‘thing’ is to eat ‘dessert with lunch’
Bündchen doesn’t shy away from dessert. In fact, it’s a daily occurrence for her.
“I love, love food and I’m obsessed with desserts,” she told Vogue in 2018 while discussing her book, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life. “I have dessert every day,” she added. Yes, “Every single day!”
The retired supermodel — she strutted down her final catwalk in 2015 — revealed she prefers to eat dessert with lunch.
“I must be honest with you, my thing is I have dessert with lunch,” the now-40-year-old said. “I never go a day without dessert because it makes me happy.”
Gisele Bündchen eats ‘avocado- and coconut-based’ desserts
Don’t expect Bündchen to dig into a standard chocolate chip cookie or a pint of ice cream when she wants something sweet. The Brazilian-born model and mother of two eat desserts filled with natural ingredients. It satisfies her craving and, as she said, is “the best thing for your brain and for your heart.”
“Most of my desserts are avocado- and coconut-based because those are the best fats for the brain,” she said. “Like today, this pie is made out of avocado, coconut, bananas. The crust is made out of dates and nuts, and these little coconut nibs on the top and then coconut yogurt on top.”
“Then the top part is 70 percent dark chocolate—my favorite ever—with little pecans and things on top, because it’s the best thing for your brain and for your heart, and for your happiness,” she said.
Gisele Bündchen doesn’t have a ‘cheat day’
Bündchen doesn’t subscribe to the term “cheat day.” She prefers to take a more balanced approach to her life and her meals.
“I don’t call it a cheat day,” she said. “I’m not ‘cheating’ myself. I know exactly what I’m doing and I really think everything’s about balance.”
She continued, saying not having balance in her life hasn’t worked well for her in the past.
“I have been a person who didn’t live in balance before, and I kind of had the consequences of that unbalanced life that broke me,” she said. “I think that made me realize what the choices I want to make are.”
But she doesn’t sweat it when she has a handful of chocolate.
“That said, I eat dark chocolate every day. It makes me very happy. Like this morning, the kids had some friends sleep over and I made gluten-free waffles with chocolate chips, and I was like, ‘Hey, I’m having some of that, too! I’m not just making them for you!’
