Gisele Bundchen is the biggest international star on the runway during Rio’s Fashion Week, but she’s also making headlines for criticizing the Roman Catholic church’s opposition to condom use and abortion.

Bundchen, who paraded Tuesday night for the Colcci label, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that the church’s take on contraception is hopelessly outdated because it was adopted when ”the women were virgins, the guys were virgins.”

”Today, no one is a virgin when they get married,” Bundchen said.

She made the comments less than a month after Pope Benedict XVI criticized government-sanctioned abortion laws and birth control during a five-day visit to Brazil, the world’s most populous Roman Catholic nation.

While most abortions are banned in Brazil, the government hands out more than 300 million free condoms each year to prevent AIDS and unwanted pregnancies.

”To prohibit condoms is ridiculous, just think of all the diseases transmitted without them,” the 26-year-old supermodel told the newspaper.

She added: ”How is it possible to not want people to use condoms and also not have abortions? It’s impossible, I’m sorry.”

Bundchen isn’t the first Brazilian celebrity to clash with the Roman Catholic church over contraception.

Popular singer Daniela Mercury was pulled from a 2005 Vatican Christmas concert over her participation in an anti-AIDS campaign promoting condom use.

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Am I the only one who does NOT think he’s cute?  He looks like an oaf to me.

Gorgeous!

Rumors on the breakup between supermodel Gisele Bundchen and Victoria’s Secret are getting more plump and juicy by the minute!

According to the Brazilian media, among Gisele’s long list of dealbreaking requests in contract talks were that she never be on the runway at the same time as ex BF Leo DiCaprio’s current GF, Bar Refaeli!

Miss Bundchen also wanted to travel less and make more money. Fashionista gossipistas are saying that Victoria’s Secret was not happy that Gisele packed on 15 lbs. after giving up cigarettes. “When you stop smoking you gain weight, because food tastes better than when it tasted like ashtray,” quipped Miss B, whose weight gain and health kick sparked rumors that she might be pregnant.

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Supermodel Giselle Bundchen has shed her Victoria’s Secret wings after the lingerie firm failed to grant her a pay rise.

The Brazilian beauty is said to have thrown in her wings after her $5 million-a year salary failed to increase.

Giselle, 26, who once dated Leonardo DiCaprio, is famous for romping down the catwalk wearing the brand’s sexy underwear with giant angel wings attached to her back.

Her sister, Patricia Bundchen, surprisingly failed to back her up and confirmed the split, telling Brazilian web site Glamurana: ‘Her demands were outrageous. She’s got a new lawyer who was unrealistic’

‘Victoria’s Secret doesn’t care. They have five new hotter, younger girls debuting next year. And they won’t have to deal with any craziness.’

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Looking mighty hot, if I may say so.

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