Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady arrive for the 2019 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019, in New York. – The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute. The Gala’s 2019 theme is Camp: Notes on Fashion” inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on Camp”. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
For the first time since rumors surfaced that Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady divorced each other back in October in the midst of the 2022 NFL season, the supermodel is now speaking out about the ordeal.
During an interview with Vanity Fair, Bündchen discussed the “heartbreaking” divorce in depth.
“It’s tough because you imagine your life was going to be a certain way, and you did everything you could, you know?” she said. ““I believed in fairy tales when I was a kid. I think it’s beautiful to believe in that. I mean, I’m so grateful I did.
“You give everything you got to achieve your dream. You give a hundred percent of yourself, and it’s heartbreaking when it doesn’t end up the way you hoped for, and worked for, but you can only do your part.”
Gisele also hit back at the notion that Brady deciding to retire and then unretiring killed their union, calling it “the craziest thing I’ve ever heard” and noting that the breakdown of a marriage “takes years to happen.”
“Listen, I have always cheered for him, and I would continue forever,” Bündchen said. “If there’s one person I want to be the happiest in the world, it’s him, believe me. I want him to achieve and to conquer. I want all his dreams to come true. That’s what I want, really, from the bottom of my heart.”
The couple were married for 13 years and they share two children together.
“Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart,” she added. “When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together. As time goes by, we realize that we just wanted different things, and now we have a choice to make. That doesn’t mean you don’t love the person. It just means that in order for you to be authentic and truly live the life that you want to live, you have to have somebody who can meet you in the middle, right? It’s a dance. It’s a balance.”
“When you love someone, you don’t put them in a jail and say, ‘You have to live this life.’ You set them free to be who they are, and if you want to fly the same direction, then that’s amazing.”
In the meantime, Brady has retired from the league and Gisele Bundchen has been getting back into her modeling as well as being spotted with her trainer on several occasions in Costa Rica.
Brady plans to be back in football in 2024 when his broadcasting duties kick in. He decided to delay it for a year to spend time with his children after a long NFL career.
