I'm from Brazil and believe it or not, from where she comes from there are beautiful girls like her (even better) in any corner . It's the last state in the south of Brazil, near to Argentina. That region is where the Germans migrate when they left Germany during the second great war, so there's a genetic mix really special in that place mixing Germans, argentinians and south brazilians that always been white people.
I'm not from there but I've been there several times and in the neighbor state for business and it's really impressive, you see model type girls working at supermarkets, mall stores.
It's too much blond people, in all other states there's a mix of all possible races just like in USA but blonde is not predominant over here, more white people with black hair and brown /black people.
About Gisele, well, Brazil is a ****ty country but we can't complain about women, even for the brazilian standards Gisele is over the top, people here think she's absolutely beautiful but too skinny, we like a little more beef
From the interviews, TV shows etc that I saw,, she's very human, decent, kind. I think that Welker's episode was an exception due to the emotions at the moment.