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"In April&amp;apos;s Vogue, Gisele Bundchen opens up about giving birth to baby Benjamin.\r\nBenjamin -- her son with husband Tom Brady -- was born at their Boston penthouse last December, in warm water in a deep bathtub that overlooks the Charles River.\r\n&amp;quot;I wanted to experience the transformation,&amp;quot; Bundchen, 29, explains, squashing rumors that she gave birth at a Boston-area hospital.\r\n\r\nA friend from Brazil served as a mid-wife, and both her mother and Brady, 31, were present.\r\nThrough the birth, she says she meditated.\r\n&amp;quot;It was the most amazing experience of my life, feeling him come through my body,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;And once he was born, I never felt so empowered as looking at him and thinking, Oh, my God, we did it together!&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nInitially, she says she and Brady bickered over the baby&amp;apos;s name.\r\n&amp;quot;I wanted him to be called River because I wanted something always flowing, immortal,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;My husband said, &amp;apos;There&amp;apos;s no way we&amp;apos;re going to call him River.&amp;apos; But my father&amp;apos;s name is Reinoldo, so it&amp;apos;s a homage to him. And it&amp;apos;s like water.&amp;quot;\r\nDuring her pregnancy, she says she &amp;quot;gained only 30 pounds.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nShe says it wasn&amp;apos;t hard to get her pre-baby body back, especially since she exercised regularly right up until she gave birth. &amp;quot;I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week,&amp;quot; she says.\r\nBundchen also says she was &amp;quot;mindful&amp;quot; about what she ate.\r\nSays the model: &amp;quot;I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.&amp;quot;\r\nWhile expecting, Bundchen says she purposely stayed out of the public eye. &amp;quot;I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me ... I didn&amp;apos;t work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nWhen she recently posed for one of her advertising clients, &amp;quot;I got to the studio and I felt like I was E.T. &amp;#x2014; whoa, what&amp;apos;s going on? Hair and makeup? I hadn&amp;apos;t looked at myself in a mirror for a month-and-a-half,&amp;quot; she says.  &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;d been in my house, in a cocoon with my kids, my husband, my dogs. Usually, as I walk through the door into that atmosphere, I already feel different. There&amp;apos;s a button that goes On and I&amp;apos;m On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this. This time it wasn&amp;apos;t like that. I&amp;apos;ve been really inside with my husband and my baby, and everything is changed. But the client still deserves respect and professionalism, and I got a little bit concerned because I wasn&amp;apos;t feeling it. Makeup was done, hair was done, and I looked in the mirror and I still wasn&amp;apos;t seeing the person who&amp;apos;s a model.&amp;quot;\r\nSays Bundchen, &amp;quot;For the first time, I think I actually saw me -- the inside -- instead of the persona.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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