Superstar NFL quarterback Tom Brady, 45, and retired supermodel Gisele Bündchen, 42, were one of the most good looking power couples of our time. Unfortunately, the pair hit a rough patch in their 13-year marriage over Tom’s decision to reverse his NFL retirement. Tom and Gisele officially filed for divorce on October 28 and they each released statements about the “difficult” decision.
Tom and Gisele actually almost never came to be, as two months after they began dating, his ex Bridget Moynahan, 51, revealed she was pregnant with Tom’s child. The pair stuck it out for 13 years of marriage with two children of their own. Gisele was always Tom’s biggest cheerleader through his 20+ years in the NFL, but after Tom reversed his decision to retire from the sport in March 2022, there was immediate tension between them.
The pair announced their divorce in October 2022. Since the split, Tom has decided to retire for good. The former couple have been dedicated to co-parenting, and they’ve been open about life since the split. Most recently, Gisele opened up about how the split was “tough” in a September 2023 interview with People. Here’s the iconic couple’s romantic timeline.
After being set up by a pal, Gisele agreed to meet Tom for a drink. It was love at first sight for the Brazilian beauty. Even though Tom was still in a relationship with Bridget, their two year romance was winding down. “I knew right way — the first time I saw him,” she told Vanity Fair in a 2009 profile. “We met through a friend. The moment I saw him, he smiled and I was like, ‘That is the most beautiful, charismatic smile I’ve ever seen!’”
“We sat and talked for three hours. I had to go home for Christmas, but I didn’t want to leave,” she added. “You know that feeling of, like, you can’t get enough? From the first day we met, we’ve never spent one day without speaking to each other.” She later told Jimmy Fallon in a 2018 Tonight Show appearance, “You know, when I saw those kind eyes, I literally fell in love, like, right away. I was like, ‘What?’ He was just so — you know how sweet he is.” The couple began dating and went public with their relationship a month later
Two months into their romance, the couple faced a major hurdle. Bridget revealed that she was pregnant with Tom’s child, even though they had split up and he had moved on to dating Gisele. It was a tough decision for the model to stay with Tom or break up with him and avoid the drama. “Two months into our relationship, Tom told me that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant. The very next day, the news was everywhere and I felt my world had been turned upside down,” she wrote in her 2018 memoir, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life.
“It was a challenging thing because here I am, you know, thinking, I’m dating this guy, we met, and we started dating and everything is great and then this happens,” 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 kind of one of those moments of like, ‘Do I just run away?’” She didn’t, and Tom and Gisele remained firm as a couple.
