[custom_adv] The Israeli actress who has gone on to play the world’s biggest female superhero – Wonder Woman – represented her country at the Miss Universe pageant in 2004. Take a look at some throwback photos of Gadot from her modeling days. [custom_adv] Gadot won the 2004 Miss Israel pageant when she was 18. [custom_adv] During an interview with W magazine, Gadot said her mother made her join the Miss Israel competition: "I was 18, I just graduated high school and I had some time in between going to the army [custom_adv] In 2004, she represented her country at the Miss Universe competition in Quito, Ecuador. She later revealed that she didn’t want to win the pageant. During an interview with Jimmy Kimmel in 2016, Gadot said: “I’m just not that type of girl.” [custom_adv] During her modelling career, she has featured on the cover of leading magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Glamour, FHM and Cleo. [custom_adv] She was ranked fifth (after model Bar Refaeli and actress Eva Green) by Shalom Life on the list of “50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish women in the world.” [custom_adv] Gadot featured in a W magazine article about women of the Israeli army. She told the magazine, “I taught gymnastics and calisthenics. The soldiers loved me because I made them fit.” [custom_adv] Gadot is the face of the Bamboo perfume by Gucci. [custom_adv] Gadot was the lead model for Israeli apparel brand Castro in 2008-16.
