Gisele Bündchen Celebrates Her 20-Year Career by Posing Naked for 'Vogue Brasil'

Gisele Bündchen's first post-runway retirement work shows her posing nude for 'Vogue Brasil.'

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Gisele Bündchen recently announced that she'd prefer not to work the runway anymore, but the supermodel has always maintained her desire to continue modeling in other areas. Now, Bündchen is showing what this next phase of her career looks like with an incredible Vogue Brasil cover. 

The May 2015 cover, which shows Bündchen posing nude on a pedestal, celebrates both the supermodel's 20-year career and the publication's 40th anniversary. The magazine's theme is the four elements and Bündchen will represent "air, water, fire, and earth"​ in five separate editorials, according to Vogue BrasilBündchen will take up over 80 pages in the issue. 

"When we had the idea to do something special with Vogue to celebrate 20 years of my career and 40 of the magazine, I knew I did not want to do something simply fashion," Bündchen said. "I wanted to show something else, something that was part of my essence​."

While Bündchen may well have walked her last runway in Brazil, you won't find us complaining if she continues to produce covers like this. 

UPDATE 5/5/15: Additional photos from Bündchen's spread with Vogue Brasil just dropped, and we should all be feeling blessed that she decided not to retire fully from modeling. Check out the images for yourself below. 

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