Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have been some of the iconic energy {couples} of the twenty first century, spending virtually 16 years collectively and 13 of them married. The NFL legend and the retired supermodel formally introduced their divorce on October 28, 2022, following reported tensions over Tom’s determination to un-retire from soccer earlier that 12 months. Each launched statements calling it a “tough” determination, however emphasised mutual respect and their shared dedication to co-parenting.
Their relationship started in 2006 and virtually didn’t final past its early days—simply two months in, Tom’s ex, Bridget Moynahan, introduced she was pregnant together with his youngster. Regardless of the preliminary problem, Tom and Gisele constructed a life collectively, welcoming two children and infrequently publicly supporting one another’s careers.
For the reason that cut up, Tom has formally retired from the NFL, and Gisele has returned to modeling and spoken candidly about life after their breakup. In a September 2023 interview with Individuals, she described the divorce as “robust,” however mentioned she stays centered on therapeutic and household.
Right here’s the long-lasting couple’s romantic timeline.
Dec. 2006: The blind date
After being arrange by a pal, Gisele agreed to satisfy Tom for a drink. It was love at first sight for the Brazilian magnificence. Regardless that Tom was nonetheless in a relationship with Bridget, their two 12 months romance was winding down. “I knew proper method — the primary time I noticed him,” she informed Vainness Truthful in a 2009 profile. “We met by means of a pal. The second I noticed him, he smiled and I used to be like, ‘That’s the most stunning, charismatic smile I’ve ever seen!’”
“We sat and talked for 3 hours. I needed to go dwelling for Christmas, however I didn’t wish to depart,” she added. “You already know that feeling of, like, you possibly can’t get sufficient? From the primary day we met, we’ve by no means spent someday with out talking to one another.” She later informed Jimmy Fallon in a 2018 Tonight Present look, “You already know, after I noticed these type eyes, I actually fell in love, like, straight away. I used to be like, ‘What?’ He was simply so — you know the way candy he’s.” The couple started relationship and went public with their relationship a month later
Feb. 2007: Tom and Gisele take care of Bridget’s shock being pregnant
Two months into their romance, the couple confronted a significant hurdle. Bridget revealed that she was pregnant with Tom’s youngster, regardless that they’d cut up up and he had moved on to relationship Gisele. It was a tricky determination for the mannequin to stick with Tom or break up with him and keep away from the drama. “Two months into our relationship, Tom informed me that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant. The very subsequent day, the information was all over the place and I felt my world had been turned the other way up,” she wrote in her 2018 memoir, Classes: My Path to a Significant Life.
“It was a difficult factor as a result of right here I’m, you already know, pondering, I’m relationship this man, we met, and we began relationship and every little thing is nice after which this occurs,” Gisele revealed to Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning in 2015. “So, then I felt like I didn’t know what to do. “It was form of a kind of moments of like, ‘Do I simply run away?’” She didn’t, and Tom and Gisele remained agency as a pair.
Aug 2007: Tom turns into a dad, however not by Gisele
Bridget gave beginning to Tom’s son John Edward Thomas Moynahan on Aug. 22, 2007. Reasonably than it driving a wedge between Tom and Gisele, it made her really feel even nearer to her man. She completely adored Tom’s child boy, happening to name him in quite a few interview her “bonus youngster.” “[He made] my coronary heart develop in methods I didn’t know was potential,” Bündchen wrote in her memoir in regards to the maternal emotions she had for the boy. “Jack” as he’s referred to as, is now an adolescent and appears precisely like his good-looking father.
Jan. 2009: Tom and Gisele get engaged
After two years of relationship, Tom popped the query to Gisele. However he used some trickery to make it a shock. Gisele lastly defined to the world the way it all went down throughout a “73 questions” video she did for Vogue in June 2018. “When he proposed to me, he made up this complete story how my condo was flooding. And I ran over there to attempt to repair the scenario.”
“After I acquired there, the entire condo had candles and rose petals all over the place, after which he went down on his knees to suggest, and I’m like, ‘stand up!’ as a result of he simply had surgical procedure and had three staph infections,” Bündchen mentioned within the 2018 video. “And I used to be like ‘What are you doing?’ He’s like, ‘I gotta go on my knees,’ and I’m like, ‘No, no, no! Stand up, please!’ And so right here we’re!” She referred to as it the “most romantic” factor Tom had completed of their relationship.
Feb. 2009: Tom and Gisele marry
Tom and Gisele weren’t ones for an extended engagement, as they acquired married a month after he proposed. The pair quietly wed in an intimate ceremony on the evening of Thurs. Feb. 26, 2009 at St. Monica’s Catholic Church in Santa Monica, CA. Simply their mother and father have been in attendance. Her father Valdir Bundchen walked her down the aisle to Tom, who wore a darkish go well with and gray tie. Gisele donned a determine hugging white lace wedding ceremony robe with a large practice, together with a veil with lace accents across the backside.
They pair later held a second ceremony at her beachside dwelling in Costa Rica in April 2009 for associates and prolonged members of the family. Gisele revealed throughout her Vogue 73 questions that she gave out The Mastery of Love: A Sensible Information to the Artwork of Relationship by Don Miguel Ruiz to all of their wedding ceremony company, saying it’s one among her “favourite books.”
Dec. 2009: Tom and Gisele develop into mother and father
As if a proposal and two weddings weren’t sufficient to make 2009 particular, Tom and Gisele welcomed their first youngster collectively, son Benjamin Brady on Dec. 8, 2009. She opted for a house water beginning on the couple’s Beacon Road townhouse in Boston, the place Benny was born in a bath.
“The physician informed me that it was too harmful for me to have a house beginning,” she revealed in her 2018 e-book Classes: My Path to a Significant Life. “He mentioned that Benny was in an uncommon place, my hips have been too small, and the percentages simply weren’t in my favor.” She mentioned Tom additionally urged a hospital beginning, however Gisele gained out, as she wrote that she “at all times dreamed of giving beginning naturally, at dwelling.”
Dec. 2012: Gisele causes controversy by dissing Tom’s teammates after a Tremendous Bowl loss
All through their relationship, Gisele has at all times been Tom’s primary supporter and cheerleader in relation to his soccer profession. However she appeared to throw his teammates below the bus after the Patriots misplaced to the New York Giants throughout Tremendous Bowl XLVI. Tom’s receivers dropped the ball on a number of key performs that probably value them the sport, and Gisele was pissed!
“My husband can not f**king throw the ball and catch the ball on the similar time. I can’t imagine they dropped the ball so many instances,” she yelled to reporters whereas getting on an elevator after the sport. An outburst like that needed to have upset Tom along with her diss at his teammates, however the pair placed on a loving entrance by heading to Costa Rica on trip just a few weeks later.
Dec. 2012: Tom and Gisele develop into mother and father…once more
Tom and Gisele welcomed daughter Vivian Lake Brady into the world on Dec. 5, 2012. Gisele by no means introduced she was anticipating, however paparazzi photographs clearly confirmed her being pregnant main as much as Vivian’s arrival. With Tom’s son Jack and the couple’s son Benny, their household was now full. The couple didn’t go on to have any extra kids after Vivian’s arrival, with three being their excellent quantity.
2018: Gisele tells Tom she’s sad of their marriage
Whereas the couple appeared like the image of bliss to the world, Tom revealed in an interview with Howard Stern in Apr. 2020 that Gisele wrote him a letter in 2018 telling him sharing her emotions of unhappiness of their marriage. His spouse felt that Tom spent an excessive amount of time centered on soccer and enterprise ventures and never sufficient time with their household.
“She felt like I’d play soccer all season and he or she would deal with the home and all of the sudden when the season would finish, I’d be like, ‘Nice, let me get into all my different enterprise actions. Let me get into my soccer coaching,” Tom informed Howard. “And she or he’s sitting there going, ‘Nicely, when are you going to do issues for the home? When are you going to take the youngsters to highschool and try this?’ And that was an enormous a part of our marriage. I needed to, like, test myself. As a result of she’s like, ‘I’ve targets and desires too’.” Tom revealed that the pair ended up going to {couples} counseling to resolve their points.
2019: Tom and Gisele have a good time 10 years of marriage with loving messages
On Feb. 26, 2009, each Tom and Gisele shared romantic Instagram posts on their tenth wedding ceremony anniversary. Gisele shared a marriage photograph of the couple staring into one another’s eyes, in addition to two photographs of them being loving and goofy. She wrote, “I can’t imagine it’s already been 10 years since we’ve selected to stroll this life collectively… and what unimaginable 10 years we’ve had! There’s nothing that I really like extra on this world than you and our household. Thanks for being on this journey with me and for doing the work that it takes to make it so particular. Could we proceed rising collectively, strolling aspect by aspect supporting and loving each other for a lot of a few years to come back. Te amo tanto.”
Tom shared an IG photograph of the couple kissing at their wedding ceremony after being pronounced husband and spouse. He wrote within the caption, “Ten years in the past, I didn’t understand how a lot I may love you and the household we created collectively. My coronary heart is so full and I’m so blessed! I do know our journey has not been simple, however the challenges we’ve overcome have made our bond stronger and our love develop deeper. Thanks for loving me, for supporting my desires, and for nurturing our household in the best way that solely you possibly can. You’re my rock, my love and my gentle! I really like you and I really like our household!”
Feb. 2022: Tom retires from the NFL
After 22 years within the NFL, and 7 Tremendous Bowl wins, Tom introduced his retirement from soccer on February 1, 2022. After sharing the massive information through Instagram, he additionally shared some type phrases to Gisele and his three kids. “To my spouse, Gisele, and my kids Jack, Benny andy Vivi. You’re my inspiration. Our household is my best achievement,” he wrote. “I at all times got here off the, area and residential to essentially the most loving and supportive spouse who has completed EVERYTHING for our familv to permit me to concentrate on my profession. Her selflessness Allowed me to succeed in new heights professionally, and I’m past phrases what you imply to me and our household. Te amo amor da minha vida.”
March 2022: Tom un-retires from the NFL
Tom formally reversed his retirement determination on March 13, 2022. “These previous two months I’ve realized my place continues to be on the sector and never within the stands. That point will come. However it’s not now. I really like my teammates, and I really like my supportive household. They make all of it potential. I’m coming again for my twenty third season in Tampa. Unfinished enterprise LFG,” he mentioned on social media. Gisele appeared to help her husband’s determination at that time. “Right here we go once more! Let’s go lovvvey! Let’s go Bucs!” Gisele wrote in a remark to Tom’s put up.
Aug/Sept. 2022: Tom & Gisele allegedly have ‘pressure’ of their marriage.
In August 2022, Tom took a break from the Buccaneers coaching camp for a “private concern.” That began the rising hypothesis of a tiff between Tom and Gisele, who allegedly was having a tough time with Tom flaking on retirement. “Gisele did her finest to regulate to Tom’s determination to return [to the NFL], nevertheless it hasn’t been simple for her as a result of that wasn’t their settlement,” a supply informed ipromiseyoumedia. “She’s a really supportive spouse, however she additionally speaks her reality, so there’s been a variety of pressure since he went again,” the insider added. Amidst the problems, Gisele reportedly left the household dwelling in Florida to spend a while in Costa Rica. She returned to Tampa forward of the 2022 NFL season, however didn’t attend Tom’s away recreation in opposition to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, September 11. Gisele did help Tom by tweeting, “Let’s go Tom Brady!” earlier than the sport, which the Bucs gained 19-3.
Gisele did an interview for Elle’s October 2022 concern earlier than Tom’s break from coaching camp and addressed his un-retirement. “Clearly, I’ve my considerations—it is a very violent sport, and I’ve my kids and I would love him to be extra current,” mentioned Gisele. “I’ve undoubtedly had these conversations with him over and over. However in the end, I really feel that everyone has to decide that works for [them]. He must comply with his pleasure, too.”
After the Bucs-Cowboys recreation, Tom mentioned that “soccer and household” have at all times been his high priorities on his SiriusXM present. “I’m discovering peace in different methods of life and simply loving, you already know, the time when my children are getting just a little bit older. And soccer and household has at all times been a very powerful factor to me so it’s a superb time of 12 months,” the well-known athlete mentioned.
Oct. 2022: Tom & Gisele Rent Divorce Legal professionals
Amid the various experiences that the pair have been having relationship issues, it was revealed that Tom and Gisele had every employed divorce attorneys on retainer, as sources informed Web page Six. “I don’t assume there will probably be any coming again now. They each have attorneys and are taking a look at what a cut up will entail, who will get what and what the funds will probably be,” an insider informed the outlet. After information broke in regards to the attorneys, Gisele was noticed figuring out on her personal in Miami.
Tom and Gisele Get Divorced
Tom and Gisele filed courtroom papers to finish their marriage in Florida on October 28 and confirmed that the divorce was “finalized” already. TMZ reported that Gisele filed for divorce and Tom, 45, just isn’t contesting her determination. Each stars confirmed the divorce in separate statements that they shared on their respective Instagram Tales.
Tom Brady introduced that he and Gisele Bündchen divorced: pic.twitter.com/QHXdHT9Baw
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 28, 2022
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— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) October 28, 2022
Tom’s assertion learn, “In latest days, my spouse and I finalized our divorce from each other after 13 years of marriage. We arrived at this determination amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent collectively. We’re blessed with stunning and great kids who will proceed to be the middle of our world in each method. We are going to proceed to work collectively as mother and father to at all times guarantee they obtain the love and a focus they deserve.”
Gisele mentioned in her assertion, “With a lot gratitude for our time collectively, Tom and I’ve amicably finalized our divorce. My precedence has at all times been and can proceed to be our kids whom I really like with all my coronary heart. We are going to proceed co-parenting to offer them the love, care and a focus they deserve. The choice to finish a wedding isn’t simple, however we’ve grown aside and whereas it’s, after all, tough to undergo one thing like this, I really feel blessed for the time we had collectively and solely want the perfect for Tom at all times.”
After the Divorce
Since their 2022 cut up, Gisele and Tom have continued to regulate to co-parenting whereas shifting ahead with their private lives. Each stars have been on the heart of relationship rumors, however till not too long ago, neither had confirmed a brand new public relationship.
Tom formally retired from the NFL for good in February 2023 and obtained help from Gisele on the time. He later paid tribute to her on Mom’s Day, calling her a “great mom” in a social media put up. Gisele additionally opened up in regards to the emotional toll of the divorce throughout a Individuals interview in September 2023, saying, “It’s been very robust on my household. It’s been lots — in each space of my life… All we are able to do is the perfect we are able to given what occurs in our environment.”
Then, in October 2024, TMZ reported that Gisele is anticipating a child along with her boyfriend, Jiujitsu teacher Joaquim Valente. In line with the outlet, she privately shared the being pregnant information with Tom and their two kids, Benjamin and Vivian.
Gisele reportedly gave beginning in early 2025, welcoming her third youngster and Joaquim’s first.
