Gisele Bundchen heard rumors that her relationship with jiu-jitsu coach Joaquim Valente began before her divorce from Tom Brady. But in a revealing new interview, the 43-year-old vehemently denies the rumor.
Bündchen was asked directly about the rumor in a New York Times profile promoting her new cookbook, Nourishand she did not contain her feelings about the unfounded accusation that, as The times pointed out, Brady has been spared since their divorce in October 2022, after 13 years of marriage.
The outlet reported that “in no uncertain terms, (Bündchen) refuted the accusation that he cheated: ‘That’s a lie.'”
Bündchen also said, “I really don’t want to make my life a tabloid. I don’t want to open myself up to all this.”
Bündchen and Brady were first romantically linked in January 2007 and married on February 26, 2009. They share two children, 14-year-old son Benjamin and 11-year-old daughter Vivian, while Brady also has a 16-year-old son years. eldest son, Jack, with actress Bridget Moynahan.
As ET reported in February, a source said Bündchen and Valente went from friends to romantic partners. The source further said that their relationship has gradually evolved since they initially connected as friends.
The fact that they started out as friends, Bündchen says, is what makes this relationship so unique.
“This is the first time I’ve seen someone who was my friend,” she said The times. “It’s very different. It’s very honest and very transparent.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Bündchen talked about offering her children a much simpler life now that she has settled down on her own in Florida, as there are no longer staff attending to their every need. The former Victoria’s Secret angel is the one who drops off and picks up her children from school. Her children also have household chores and there are no personal chefs anymore.
“Now that I’m here, I can be alone with them,” she said. “They have to help me, and I tell them that. I say, ‘Listen, I understand we had chefs working with us and everything, but Mom is choosing to do it this way now.'”
In an interview from July 2022 with Ford CEO Jim Farley, Brady said — before the divorce — that the hardest part of fatherhood is trying not to spoil his and Bündchen’s kids.
“It’s probably the hardest thing for us as parents, you know, with me and my wife,” Brady said at the time. “My wife grew up in rural Brazil, in the extreme south of the state, Rio Grande do Sul, a very small agricultural town, a very simple girl. You know, there are two rooms in their house – one for her parents and one for her and his five sisters.”
“And I grew up, I would say, in a middle-class family in California,” he continued. “My father worked hard for our family. My mom stayed home (and) took care of us kids, and I watched my mom work every day to make food for us at night and wash our clothes. coming to all our games. It was amazing.”
“We have people who clean for us. We have people who make our food. We have people who take us to the airport if we need to,” Brady continued. “We got off a plane and there were people waiting for us, and we were taken inside. That’s my kids’ reality, which is the hard part of saying, ‘Guys, this isn’t how reality really is, you know, and what can we do about it?”
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