Gisele Bündchen opens up about suicidal thoughts at peak of career: 'I felt suffocated'

Gisele Bündchen spoke candidly in a new interview about the mental health issues she experienced at the height of her modeling career.

The supermodel, 43, said on an episode of "CBS News Sunday Morning" that she struggled with panic attacks at one point in her life due to stressful work demands.

"I couldn't breathe. And then I started being around the studio and feeling suffocated," she tells reporter Lee Cowan.

Bündchen recalled that she lived on the ninth floor of a building at the time and had to take the stairs for fear of getting stuck in the elevator.

"You mean when you can't breathe even with the windows open, you think I don't want to live like this, you know what I mean?" she expressed.

Cowan then bluntly asks if the former Victoria's Secret Angel was really thinking about "jumping."

"Yes. For a second,” Bündchen replies.

The model first opened up about suicidal thoughts in 2018 ahead of the release of her memoir, "Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life."

Bündchen was once the highest-paid model in the industry — earning an estimated $17.5 million in a single year — but gave up modeling in 2015.

Earlier this year, when asked about a return to the catwalk, she said: "Never say never."

Recently, she has been in the media attention for her divorce from Tom Brady, with whom she has two children, son Benjamin, 13, and daughter Vivian, 10.