The pain of the loss is still deep: Gisele Bündchen has now shared touching photos with her mother, who died in January.
When a loved one dies, the pain of loss and loving memories are often closely linked. , supermodel Gisele Bündchen (43) remembered her late mother Vania Nonnenmacher (+75) with several Instagram stories on Tuesday. Nonnenmacher succumbed to cancer a month ago on January 28th in a hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
“I love you!” – “I love you!”
“I love you!” is written below a photo in which Bündchen’s mother smiles into the camera – Portuguese for “I love you!” Bündchen expresses how much she misses her mother through a series of heartwarming photos. One shows mother and daughter in a loving embrace. The Brazilian supermodel writes underneath: “A month without you, mom. I miss you very much!” On January 28, the Moinhos de Vento Hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, announced that Nonnenmacher had died of cancer. She was 75 years old. Bündchen first commented on the tragic event on January 30th. Since then, fans from all over the world have been mourning the ex-wife of football legend Tom Brady (46), to whom she was married between 2009 and 2022. Both are parents of a 14-year-old son and an eleven-year-old daughter. The mother of two lives with her children in Tampa, Florida.
“When it rains, it pours.”
Back in September last year, Bündchen told People magazine that she was taking care of her sick parents – a hard time for the whole family. At the time, Bündchen described the ever-changing blows of fate in dramatic words: “I feel like when it rains, it pours. With all the different twists and turns that life takes, we can only do the best we can in the face of it what is happening in our environment.”
Two days after her mother’s death, Bündchen spoke out for the first time via Instagram. At that time, she made it clear to the whole world how much light her mother meant in her life: “Beloved mom, it hurts to know that I can no longer hug you. But I know that you will always watch over us. You were an angel on earth who always helped everyone around her,” Bündchen wrote about her mother in Portuguese and English at the time. She will forever be remembered as the “best role model for love, strength, compassion, courage and grace”.
“Letting go can feel overwhelming.”
Her mother’s death from cancer had a lasting impact on Gisele Bündchen. As other Instagram posts suggest, she has embarked on a journey of personal change. She describes her painful journey, among other things, with moving words from the Ecuadorian author Yung Pueblo: “Letting go can sometimes feel overwhelming. Developing new habits can seem like an uphill battle. But despite all these challenges, the inner work is worth it. This active form of Self-love can radically change your life.” On the way to inner center, Bündchen meditates daily and practices yoga.
Source: Stern
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