Gisele Bundchen clearly ignited jealously in her fellow models from the first moment she arrived in New York to begin modeling.

Housed in a model apartment at the age of 16, two years after first being discovered, she lived with a few fellow models who were older than her and took advantage of her lack of English by encouraging her to call everybody she met an "arsehole".

"I could only speak a few words – hello, goodbye, one, two, three, four, five, but that was about it," the 24-year-old model and girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio told talk show host Conan O'Brien. "I used to live in a model apartment before I had my own place and I was 16. What did I know? The girls were all older than me and they would go, 'Gisele – arsehole is good.' I was so excited about learning this new word, I wrote it down and went around saying it to everyone.

There was an amazing doorman where we lived and he was about 70-years-old and really nice. So I would go down and say 'good morning arsehole'. He is looking at me but I don't understand. I get to the agency and I am like to all the bookers 'hello arseholes'. Portuguese was my native language, thank God one of the bookers explained I could not say that word. I never said sorry to the doorman so if he is watching, I'm sorry."

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Posted by Lawren at April 8, 2005 07:02 AM

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If I had been an aspiring model and Gisele showed-up, I'd have just packed it in. She's gorgeous.

Says: Nanc' at April 8, 2005 08:32 AM

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I actually watched this segment. She was cussing up a storm, even after Conan was like, "Sweetie, really, you can't say that stuff."

Says: Iceman at April 8, 2005 10:03 AM

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Oh, and she was saying "asshole" by the way, not "arsehole."

Says: Iceman at April 8, 2005 10:03 AM

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