Farming is more fun than being with Gisele

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It’s a good thing Keseme Ole Parsapaet (seen here with Gisele Bündchen) is humble, because following this ad shoot for Product Red, he went right back to his Kenyan village, where celebrity is nice but doesn’t mean much. The media was charmed by Parsapaet, since he’s a farmer who cannot read or write (that doesn’t distinguish him from many supermodels, actually) and only wanted $5,000 for his services because he lives on $90 U.S.

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