Inside the rocky marriage and split between Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen

Over the years, it seemed like Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen were a golden couple.

The audience was delighted with stories about their ideal life with three children: luxurious properties globally, a super healthy diet (no sugar, no caffeine, no tomatoes causing inflammation), their vision of “environmentally conscious” life. And then there were shows of affection, including snug pictures – from holidays, red carpets, and soccer fields – and love notes.

“I couldn’t have imagined a better wife and partner than you @gisele when I said yes 12 years ago,” Brady tweeted on the couple’s 12th wedding anniversary in February 2021. our family is getting bigger! You are the sweetest, most loving and determined person I know. You always do the right thing and are the best example to our children of what a supportive loving partner is! How blessed am I? Te amo.

Bündchen replied: “We have been through so much and matured so much together. There is nothing I love more than you and our family, and there is no one I prefer to share my life with with you! Te amo.

As a Page Six initiate said, “Normally they can’t keep their hands off each other. They always kiss and touch. Gisele is the type of person who would make her girlfriends hang out hot with her man.

“Even when they left for Tom’s birthday in July, on a yacht in Italy, Tom couldn’t stop rummaging around Gisele.”

But not everything was as happy and loved as it looked.

Multiple sources told Page Six that the seven-time Superbowl champion (45) and Brazilian supermodel (42) actually broke up several times over the years before an “epic fight” in August that led to their last separation – and what it looks like the end of their 13-year marriage.

One well-known source claimed that Bündchen even consulted a divorce lawyer in 2015, saying: “Tom and Gisele were already separated. They have a big fight every few years and she left Tom before, but always came back.

“They were always working on different things and Tom hoped they would do it again this time.”

It is believed the last time they had a big bang was two years ago, the source said, but they worked through different things.

However, as page Six revealed this week, it looks like the end of the road for the couple: they have both hired well-established lawyers in Florida, where they live and where they are most likely to file for divorce.

Brady and Bündchen declined to comment.

It is now believed that the couple is working on their finances: Brady is worth $ 250 million, while former Victoria’s Secret star Bündchen was the highest-paid model in the world between 2002 and 2016. They also share a string of multi-million dollar houses. The couple’s representatives declined to comment.

When Page Six revealed the story of their fight in August, many who know the pair explained that Bündchen – who told British Vogue their marriage was not a “fairy tale” – was struggling Brady’s return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in March after only six weeks of retirement.

In October 2021, Brady admitted that his career took its toll on his wife, saying she was forced to put her career on hold in order to manage the family. They both have a son, Benjamin, 12, and a daughter, Vivian, 9, and Brady is also the father of Jack’s son, 15, with ex-Bridget Moynahan.

“I think my wife, you know, has kept the house for a long time and I think there are things she wants to achieve,” he said on “Let’s Go” podcast. “You know, she hasn’t worked that much in the last 10, 12 years, just raising our family and committing to living in Boston and then moving to Florida.” [following his March 2020 move to the Bucs after leaving the New England Patriots].

When Brady finally he announced his retirement after weeks of speculation, he wrote on Instagram in February this year: “I love my career in the NFL, and now it’s time to focus my time and energy on other things that need my attention.”

He even addressed Bündchen and their children, writing: “Our family is my greatest achievement. I have always returned from the field to the home of the most loving and supportive wife who did EVERYTHING for our family so that I could focus on my career. Her selflessness allowed me to climb to new heights professionally and I cannot describe what you mean to me and our family.

At first, it seemed that Brady – who is the highest-paid NFL player and has a string of promotional deals with brands including FTX and Hertz – would go to the sidelines. In 2013, he co-founded TB12, a company that sells supplements and training equipment. Last year, he co-founded Autograph, the NFT sports and entertainment collector’s website, which has raised $ 170 million from investors. He also signed massive $ 375 million 10-year deal with Fox Sports.

But then in March the pensioner wrote on Twitter: “Over the past two months I have realized that my place is still on the pitch, not in the stands.

“This time will come. But it is not now. I love my teammates and I love my supportive family. Thanks to them, everything is possible. I’m going back for my 23rd season in Tampa. The unfinished business of the LFG. “

According to sources who know her, Bündchen was not happy. She has spoken publicly of her fears that her husband would develop CTE – a chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive head injuries that has affected and killed countless ex-players, including Bubba Smith, Demariius Thomas, and Frank Gifford.

Appearing on the cover of Elle magazine last month, Bundchen did not hold back from her “concern” about Brady’s ongoing career in the NFL.

“It’s a very brutal sport, I have kids and I wish he could be more present,” she said.

The former Victoria’s Secret Angel noted that she “definitely had these conversations with him over and over.”

There was also an indication that Bünchen decided it was time for her to shine again: “I have done my part which is [to] be there for [my husband]”Said Elle. “I moved to Boston and focused on creating a cocoon and a loving environment in which my children would grow up and support him and his dreams.”

Even so, sources close to the couple said earlier this month that it was “sexist” to blame the couple’s marital misfortunes solely on Brady’s ambitions. One insisted, “The problems are not with his decision to play football again – sometimes things are complicated.”

All rumors of fraud on both sides have been dismissed.

Several sources confirmed this week that Bündchen was unhappy with Brady’s return to football – and the shock of his continued journey.

But, as one insider who worked with them said, “You can’t blame one thing after your 13-year marriage is over. A lot of problems have arisen over time. “

Brady took an 11-day break from the Bucs in August due to “personal matters.” He missed the team’s first two pre-season matches against the Miami Dolphins and Tennessee Titans before returning to the team on August 21.

Bündchen took off her wedding ring and was spotted this week that her car was “cleared” of bad vibrations. Dr. Eve, a “devoted Ayurvedic medical doctor” for over 35 years, burned Palo Santo’s incense stick and seemed to bless the exterior and interior of the Miami supermodel’s white SUV.

Those who know Bündchen say that she is very anxious to pursue her own career.

“I have a huge list of things I have to do and want to do. At 42, I feel more attached to my goal, ”said Elle.

The model started her own lingerie company in collaboration with the Brazilian version of Victoria’s Secret in 2011, and in 2010 founded an eco-friendly beauty company. Along with other celebrities such as Rihanna and Beyoncé, she invested in French fashion brand Destree earlier this year.

See you, building a dream house the couple was building on Indian Creek Island in Miami, known as the “Billionaires Bunker”, is suspended. The total cost is expected to be close to $ 30 million, as they paid $ 17 million for the demolished house and an additional $ 10.12 million in construction costs.

“She is driving the divorce,” said one source People this week Bündchen. “She plays offensively and [Brady] plays in defense. He wants to protect himself, to protect his interests, but is just beginning to follow the legal path in his defense against it. I don’t want it to be ugly, I don’t want to fight. If there is a divorce – and it seems so – he wants it to go as smoothly as possible. “

The couple’s friends are upset when they say that Brady really loves his wife.

“I think the only phone that changed my life was my friend Ed who called me one day and said,” I have this girl and I think you should call her, “he said WSJ Magazine in September 2021 “I ended up calling her and it ended up being the love of my life.”