Two days ago, Tom Brady, who has become one of the best football players in history, said goodbye to the pitch. A withdrawal that had been suspected for some time, but that has not caused less reaction in the world of sports and beyond. Including that of his own wife. Gisele Bündchen wanted to join the avalanche of messages and public statements about the field marshal’s departure with an emotional and sincere message posted on her Instagram profile, where the top model accumulates the not insignificant figure of more than 18 million followers. She has done so by accompanying her words – in Portuguese from Brazil, her native country and in English – with a carousel of images in which the couple can be seen with their children on the pitch. “You are the most dedicated, focused and mentally strong person I have ever met. Over the years, you never complained about all the bruises, aches and pains. You just kept focusing on your goal to go out there and be the best leader there was to all of your teammates,” Bündchen maintains in his message.
Beyond deciphering how Brady has been as an athlete, the model tells some details of what it has been like to accompany him in his professional career throughout all these years. He remembers, for example, how when they met, more than 15 years ago, “he didn’t know anything about soccer”, but encouraging him and watching him play was what made him learn the most about this sport “to the point of seriously believing that he knew more than the others.” referees”. She also talks about the familiar routines before games, when she had always prepared “a playlist for champions” to listen to on the way to the stadium. “I know how excited you are for the next chapter of your life. Seeing you work so hard on your football career and seeing the dedication you are now putting into all your new projects is incredibly inspiring. There is nothing you cannot achieve. I’ve always been here for you, you know, and I’m just as excited as you are about what the future holds!” adds Bündchen.
The model has not been the only one who has wanted to show love to her family publicly. In the acknowledgments that she has published on your Instagram profilethe quarterback He has not forgotten his wife and children —Benjamin, Vivian and Jack, son of Brady and his former partner, Bridget Moynaha— whom he defines as his “inspiration” and his “greatest achievement”. “My wife has done everything for our family to allow me to focus on my career. Her selfless dedication has allowed me to reach new professional heights and I have no words to define what you mean to me and our family”, she declared in the message, which she finished off with a romantic statement in Portuguese, the native language of the Brazilian. . “I love you love of my life”.
Bündchen and Brady began their relationship in 2007, after the model’s courtship failed – until 2017, the highest paid in the world for 15 consecutive years – and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The wedding between the two, held in 2009, took place in the utmost secrecy and months later the couple confirmed that they were expecting their first child. The second, Vivian Lake, would be born in 2012, and as the athlete himself relates in her message, it was no coincidence that the professional activity of the model was gradually slowing down as her personal life was consolidated. This was confirmed by Brady himself a few months ago in an interview for the podcast let’s go, in which he assured that his wife had not “worked as much in the last 10-12 years”, simply because she had been raising the family and committing to live first in Boston and then to move to Florida. A decision to practically take care of the care alone, which on occasion has been a source of conflict for the couple. In 2020, in an intervention on the Howard Stern program, the footballer acknowledged that Bündchen had stated that he did not agree with the distribution of tasks. “And when are you going to do things at home? When are you going to take the children to school?” He reproached her. top on one occasion. “She also told me that this part was part of our marriage, that I had to like her, activities that she had to participate in because she also had her goals and her own dreams,” she said then.
Despite their differences, the Brazilian and the American form one of the most consolidated and successful couples, not only in their respective professional fields —he is the only player who has won the Super Bowl seven times and she, at 41, she is still one of the most influential models in the world and participates in luxury advertising campaigns—but also in other areas such as real estate. The marriage has come to have more than six properties, although in the last year some of them have been disposed of, such as a luxurious apartment in the New York neighborhood of Tribeca for which they obtained a profit of 8.2 million euros. She also rents her house in Miami to baseball player Derek Jeter for almost 62,000 euros a month. A cocktail of sources of income that makes them one of the wealthiest couples in the United States. Only Bündchen treasures a net worth of $400 million —about 350 million euros—, according to the portal Celebrity Net Worthwhile Brady would have amassed a total of 430 million dollars – around 380 million euros – throughout his 22-year career.
But the couple has not only been in the public eye for their job successes and their buoyant economic situation. On many occasions, Brady has been singled out for his support of former United States President Donald Trump, to whom he is linked by a long friendship, although he has always denied his support for the Republican, assuring that “political support is very different from political support.” of a friend”, as collected in an article about the NBC. However, it is frequently remembered how in 2015 the former soccer player expressed his support for the tycoon, who was then fighting to be the presidential candidate. “It would be great”, he commented and added in a humorous tone that, if he reached the White House, “there would be an artificial turf” to play golf, a sport they have practiced together. Some statements from which Brady was distancing himself and that differ a lot from those of his wife. When, on the eve of the 2016 election, someone asked her on Instagram if she and Brady would vote for Trump, she responded with a resounding “No!”
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