Gisele Bundchen - “V Magazine” Fall 2008

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen will gobble up even more newsstand real estate today as she graces the cover of V magazine’s 2008 Fall Preview issue. The supermodel is bearing a little more of her 5′10″ livelihood than what we’re used to–and she held photographer Mario Testino accountable for those skin-ny images that “only Mario could make me take.” Granted, there is a large dose of Bundchen’s buns, but we doubt many will complain.

Brazilian bombshell Gisele Bundchen is featured in the Fall 2008 issue of V Magazine, as captured by renowned photographer Mario Testino. (She shot this cover back in April.)
In her interview, Gisele, who turns 28 on Sunday, speaks frankly about her decade-long modeling career, as well as her outlook on fashion, the paparazzi and the environment.

On her skin-baring images: “Only Mario [Testino] could make me take these pictures…. People are going to say my butt is showing too much in these but this is V Magazine! If you’re going to do something like that, you do it for V.”

On 15-year-old Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair wearing just a sheet and being on every news show: Can you believe this is news? It’s ridiculous. And the politicians aren’t going to create any laws about this [kind of media saturation]. They’re very happy with it. They can go around doing what they want and no one cares because we’re more concerned about some 15-year-old girl holding a sheet in a picture. No one cares about what [the politicians are] screwing up, or how much money is being lost.

On what she’s more compassionate about: “The destruction of our planet.”
On her role in the fashion world: “I work in fashion but I’m not really a fashion person. I don’t follow trends. I couldn’t tell you which designer made that shoe or that bag. I like jeans.”