Gisele Bündchen made sure everyone knew that her marriage to Tom Brady ended not just because he retired and then went back on that decision to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for one more year.
The model was the subject of a Vanity Fair profile that dropped on Wednesday, and in it, she addressed the rampant speculation that’s been everywhere ever since.
As Bündchen says in the story, a marriage ending “takes years to happen,” not just because of Brady’s one decision. And, on top of that, there was blame unfairly put on her, as if Bündchen said that it’s either football or her:
The only problem is that, according to Bündchen, no such thing ever happened. She calls those characterizations “very hurtful” and “the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.”
“Listen, I have always cheered for him, and I would continue forever,” Bündchen insists, her voice thick with emotion. “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.” …
When I ask Bündchen if there were stories written about their split that simply weren’t true, she flatly replies, “Everything.”
“Like, I would give up my dream because of…” Bündchen trails off.
“One more season?” I attempt to fill in.
“Wow, people really made it about that,” she says. “What’s been said is one piece of a much bigger puzzle,” Bündchen tells me later. “It’s not so black and white.” Bündchen also dismisses digital murmurs that politics—namely, the MAGA hat spotted in Brady’s locker in 2015—drove a wedge. “Never,” she tells me.
Read the whole thing. It’s worth your time.
“It’s like a death and a rebirth.” Gisele Bündchen is ready for her next act—and she’s got some big ideas.
In a VF exclusive, the supermodel discusses the end of her marriage, being “blindsided” by FTX, and pursuing la pura vida on her own terms.
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