Gisele Bunchen in Esquire, 2004
Source: Thomas Hawk blog

Beautiful Gisele Bundchen of Brazil has always been my favorite supermodel. Her regal good looks, her tall physique, and her unusual grownup features have always made her a natural for the camera and great photographs.

Now she’s given me a reason to really like her – by telling Hugo Chavez he’s repulsive. In fact, she pretty much screwed up her stately nose, narrowed her feline eyes, and sweetly told the fat, leering Venezuelan dictator that he was the Swamp Thing.

The Venezuelan dictator had been ogling her like a pervert, in fact, for years. Apparently emboldened by his recent success kissing drag queens in Rio, he must have assumed everyone loved him back. Gisele said that not only did she not want to meet the Marxist dictator, she also announced, to no one in particular that Chavez is detested by the rest of the world too. Like the lovely Helen Houdova before her, she struck a blow for Venezuela’s beleaguered democrats.

Take that, Hugo!

Two things stand out about that statement.

Number one, she doesn’t want anything to do with this brutal leftist dictator – no pictures, no cavorting, no PR. In that regard, she has simple self respect.

Two, she has declared that dictators are unpopular, something no politician of any stripe could do nearly as effectively as she just did. Gisele is a great fashion figure and party girl, so anything she says, really is the ‘word.’

Right now, she’s struck an impressive blow against totalitarianism by telling the world it’s un-chic and un-hip to have anything nice to do or say about Chavez. The next idiot you see in a Che Guevara t-shirt is going to feel the sting of that statement from the world’s most fashionable babe of fashion. In other words, communism is what funky losers do. Freedom is what pretty fashion babes do. This girl has done her part for world democracy today.

Well done, Gisele!

UPDATE: Go see Venezuela Today‘s photoessay on this matter, you’ll laugh your head off!!!