Gisele Bundchen Gets Candid About Split With Ex Leonardo DiCaprio

Gisele Bundchen is on the cover of Porter Magazine, out on February 8.

Here’s what the 38-year-old model had to say…

On feeling ashamed to ask for help when she first suffered from panic attacks: “When I was going through my panic attacks, I didn’t even feel like I could share with anyone. I thought maybe I don’t have the right, everybody is going through so many difficult things in the world, and I don’t have the right to feel this way. So I’d suppress it, and the more I suppressed it, the bigger it became.”

On the difficult decision to walk away from her relationship with former boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio [the couple dated from 2000-2005]: “No longer numbing myself with smoking, drinking and too much work, I was becoming more and more aware of things that I’d chosen not to look at. Was I alone in wanting to do some serious soul-searching while he stayed the same? In the end, unfortunately, the answer was yes.”

On Victoria’s Secret’s portrayal of women: “I was always a person who asked, ‘Can I please cover my butt?’ In the studio I don’t mind, it’s very controlled. But if you’re on a runway, god knows. So, you’ll notice, I usually had a little skirt or cape to wear. They were always very kind and accommodating when I said I did not feel comfortable.”

For more from Gisele, head to net-a-porter.com.