Leave Gisele Bundchen Alone...

I’ve been reading a crap load of insane attacks on Gisele Bundchen because of her comments on the Vanity Fair, May issue, regarding her husband's son:

" I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that, but to me it's not like because somebody else delivered him, that's not my child. I feel it is, 100 percent. I want him to have a great relationship with his mom, because that's important, but I love him the same way as if he were mine."

Well, let’s see how it feels… It’s amazing how some people can be so racist and culturally uneducated. It’s amazing how they can dwell on pettiness, and pick up the stupidest things to vent their ignorance and fear of the unknown. As far as calling her names such as “crazy ass foreigner,” one could argue that everyone here is a foreigner, unless you are a Native American that survived the genocide. But since most Americans have a very short memory of where they really came from, let’s just leave it at that. As many of you intelligently mentioned, English is not her first language. So between Portuguese, English, and other languages that I’m sure she speaks, the meaning of what she’s trying to convey gets twisted around. But I don’t expect these cynics to understand that, since most of these ignorant comments come from people that only speak one language. Some of them, barely. They’ve never tried to speak a foreign language and expect the rest of the planet to speak fluent English. The girl is down-to-earth, real, and spontaneous. She comes from a supportive, very well grounded family, where mom and dad are still married, and she understands the true value of close family ties. All that she was trying to say was that she cares for the child like he was her own. What’s wrong with that? I suppose the rule of thumb would be hatred and dislike, so when people see otherwise, they freak out. I personally think the guy is lucky to have her. I think she could have done it a lot better all the way around. It seems like she entered a marriage in good faith, taking along all the extra baggage. Isn't that the expression? She didn’t need to do that, as she has her own money and career. It could only be love. They say that love is blind, and this is proof positive. Let her be! She is a beautiful person, in and out, and I can only hope that she won’t be disappointed or embittered by cultural clashes, and the different values that most likely she will encounter in the future.

Give a rest people! She just meant that she cares for the child… That’s that simple! And by the way, let’s get a little bit more creative, shall we? Try to get another line other than “get back to your country” to offend her or anybody that wasn’t born in the US. That’s overrated and pretty dumb, considering the fact that most likely your ancestors crawled from a foreign rock. Nobody is going anywhere, buster! Just like your gramps didn’t. Give your doctor a ring and pick up some amnesia pills.

Whishing you the best of luck Gisele.

Cheers,
Cranky Blogger

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