Culture October 1, 2018

Gisele Bundchen opens up about hitting 'rock bottom'

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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen opened up about her struggles with mental health and discussed hitting "rock bottom" in a new interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts.

Bundchen, 38, revealed that when she was in her 20s there were times when she struggled with panic attacks.

"That was definitely rock bottom for me," Bundchen recalled.

"Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts interviews Gisele Bundchen about her new book, "Lessons."

"It started all in a little plane," she said. "You know, I was in Costa Rica and I was flying in a six-seater plane, and ... the plane started shaking like a little leaf."

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"I was, like, completely a sense of powerless, you know?" she said.

Now married to NFL star Tom Brady and the mother of two, Bundchen said the feeling of losing control was especially hard to deal with.

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"I'm a person who always likes to kinda have things under control," she recalled. "That was definitely [an] out-of-control moment."

Her struggles with panic expanded to various other situations in her day-to-day life.

"Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts interviews Gisele Bundchen about her new book, "Lessons."

"This kind of fear of being ... in small spaces," she said. "It started with a little plane ride, but then it became, like, tunnels, subways, elevators."

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"I lived on the 9th floor in an apartment ... and I would go up nine floors of stairs because I was scared that I would, like, suffocate," she added. "I mean, it was crazy. Like, my world just kept getting smaller and smaller."

You can catch Roberts' full interview with Bundchen Tuesday on "Good Morning America," 7 am to 9 am ET.