What many individuals did not know (myself included) is that her identify is not pronounced the way in which you most likely simply learn it.
Gisele defined tips on how to accurately say it in a lately resurfaced episode of Late Evening with Conan O’Brien.
“It’s Gisele-y,” she mentioned, noting that in Portuguese, “you say ‘I’ on the finish of the ‘L.’ Right here [in America] you eat the ‘I.’”
Gisele, who was born in Brazil, mentioned she adopted the American pronunciation of her identify as a result of casting brokers might by no means get it proper.
“I would be like, ‘This isn’t a tough identify!'” she mentioned. “So, I’d simply write it down, and so they’d be like, ‘Gisele!’ I am like, ‘No [it’s not] Gisele. [It’s] Gisele-y.'”
“They might by no means say Gisele-y, so no matter. It simply grew to become Gisele.”
