Gisele Bündchen talks about the results of quitting a long-standing habit

“I became lighter, I felt a little foggier before,” she told People in an article published Monday. “Now I’m very sharp and very present and I notice things I didn’t notice before. When I don’t drink, I sleep much better.

“Right after I turned 40, actually, I felt a huge difference between when I had a glass of wine and when I didn’t have the glass of wine,” she told People . “It is socially accepted to have a glass of wine. And people even say, “Oh, it’s healthy for you.” Well, it’s not healthy for Me. If you want to ask of your body what I ask of my body, which is a lot, I can’t have all of those things (alcohol, caffeine) because they add up.

Bündchen seems to have come a long way since she drank a bottle of wine daily to manage her anxiety as a young model, as she wrote in her 2018 memoir “Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life” .

In one of the biggest moments during her ex-husband’s Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2018, Bündchen went viral for drinking wine while she watched.

According to experts, abstinence can improve your relationships, make you feel better emotionally and physically, and may even change your interests.