These are 12 things you should now about real-life super hero and latest feminist icon Gal Gadot. (Photo: Archive)
Gal Gadot was born and raised in Israel, and her maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. (She’s on the right) (Photo: Archive)
In Hebrew, Gal Gadot’s first name means “wave” and her surname means “riverbanks”. (Photo: Archive)
Gadot won the Miss Israel beauty pageant at the age of 18, (Photo: Archive)
She studied Law and International Relations before pursuing a modeling career. (Photo: Archive)
She was a soldier in the Israel Defense Force, which is required of all Israeli citizens, teaching gymnastics and calisthenics. (Photo: Archive)
Her military background landed her a role as Gisele in the Fast & Furious franchise. (Photo: Archive)
She performs all of her own stunts. (Photo: Archive)
She’s married to businessman Yaron Versano. (Photo: Archive)
She has two kids, and was 5 months pregnant with her second one while filming Wonder Woman. (Photo: Instagram)
She had to gain 22 pounds of muscular mass for her role in Wonder Woman. (Photo: Instagram)
Gadot’s film “Wonder Woman” is the first superhero movie in over a decade to feature a female in the title role. (Photo: Archive)
She is an outspoken feminist. “Feminism is about equality. I want all people to have the same opportunities and to get the same salaries for the same jobs. I realize I’m doing what I want to do because of the woman before me who laid the groundwork. Without them I wouldn’t be an educated working mother who is following her dreams; I wouldn’t be here.” (Photo: Archive)
There once was a certain Princess Diana who fascinated the world by becoming the sweet and caring Lady Di. Now, it is another princess who comes from a mythological paradise, the Themyscira island, ready to conquer the plebeian’s hearts.
The new Diana is better known by the name of her alter ego, Wonder Woman. We recognize her in warrior pose pictures, wearing her tiara and her Amazonian uniform, blading her sword in one hand and holding her shield in the other.
This generation’s Diana is much like Lynda Carter’s personification from 1975 to 1979. Beautiful, strong, fair, using force as her last resort, always trying to make things right.
DC Comics’ “Wonder Woman”, in collaboration with Warner Bros. and director Patty Jenkins, took the world by storm, with critics calling it “a cocktail of intelligence, heart, and adrenaline” and over $200 million on its opening weekend.
But who is this new powerful princess?
There’s much more to her other than Wonder Woman. These are 12 things you should now about real-life super hero and latest feminist icon Gal Gadot.
