Gisele Bündchen’s Mother Vânia Nonnenmacher Dead at 75, According to Brazil Hospital

Gisele Bündchen’s mother Vânia Nonnenmacher has died. She was 75 years old.

Moinhos de Vento Hospital released a statement confirming that Nonnenmacher died of cancer at a hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Sunday after being admitted on Friday.

A representative for Bündchen did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. Bündchen had yet to make an announcement about her mother’s death as of Sunday afternoon EST.

In addition to the 43-year-old supermodel, Nonnenmacher is the mother of Bündchen’s five siblings, twin Patricia and sisters Rafaela, Graziela, Gabriela and Raquel.

Gisele Bündchen and mother Vânia Nonnenmacher.

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According to the words, Nonnenmacher was a retired bank clerk vanity fairand she raised her daughter in what the paper called a “hard-working, middle-class family” in the city of Horizontina, Brazil.

Bündchen has frequently shared pictures and memories of her mother on social media over the years — from celebrating her Mother’s Day last May to sharing a photo from a family reunion on Instagram in September, where she and her siblings posed alongside Nonnenmacher and husband Valdir Bündchen at Okrugla table.

“Always in my heart and prayers ❤️,” Bündchen captioned the post.

Back in September, Bündchen opened up to PEOPLE about caring for her ailing parents, explaining at the time that it’s “very hard on my family.”

“It was a lot — in every area of ​​my life,” she said. “I feel like whenever it rains, it pours. With all the different twists and turns life throws at us, all we can do is the best we can given what’s going on around us.”

Gisele Bündchen and mother Vânia Nonnenmacher.

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Bündchen previously blogged about her mother in 2010, shortly after welcoming her first child, 14-year-old Benjamin, with Tom Brady. She and Brady later had a daughter, Vivian Lake, 11.

“I grew up watching how my mother always tried to do everything she could for us six girls. My mom dedicated her whole life to her family and with such loveliness,” she wrote on International Women’s Day.

“She is my hero. She is the reason why I believe that a woman is the core of a family… I can only hope that I will be for my children what she will always be for us… Our rock.”

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