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Pregnant model Gisele Bundchen is to become a United Nations goodwill ambassador for the environment.
Gisele, 29, and husband Tom Brady, 31, expect their first child together in December and she spoke about the new position on September 20 in Manhattan’s Washington Square.
She said: “I’m really honoured to have received a call from the UN to spread the message about climate change in the world.”
She added: “I started paying attention to what was happening with the environment when I had a visit to the Xingu area of the Amazon in 2003.
“I spent a week with an Indian tribe and everyone was complaining they were getting sick because the waters were polluted. All these pesticides were going into the rivers because there were no trees to protect the rivers.
“The fish were sick. The water was polluted. I was like: ‘Who is doing something about this?’”
The model then posted green tips on her website and set up the charity Agua Limpa, meaning clean water in English, whose aim is to plant trees in the Amazon to help to purify the water.
She will now join forces with the United Nation’s Environmental Programme to make people aware of the need to take care of the planet.
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