{"id":73321,"date":"2023-03-22T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=73321"},"modified":"2023-03-22T13:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:38:40","slug":"gisele-bundchen-opens-up-about-tom-brady","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/gisele-bundchen-opens-up-about-tom-brady\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisele B\u00fcndchen Opens Up About Split from Tom Brady and Those Rumors About a New Beau"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Gisele Bundchen arrives for the 2019 Met Gala celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Karwai Tang\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ever since the news broke that Gisele B\u00fcndchen<\/a> and Tom Brady<\/a> were going their separate ways<\/a> after 13 years of marriage, there have been many headlines<\/a> about what she’s up to now: how she’s spending her time<\/a>, how she’s getting back into modeling<\/a> and who she’s been hanging out with<\/a>. Now, in a new interview, the supermodel is getting candid about what her life looks like now and how she feels months after the split.<\/p>\n

In her cover story with Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>, the supermodel compared the end of her marriage to “the death of my dream.” Adding, “It\u2019s tough because you imagine your life was going to be a certain way, and you did everything you could, you know? I believed in fairy tales when I was a kid. I think it\u2019s beautiful to believe in that. I mean, I\u2019m so grateful I did.”<\/p>\n

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Tom Brady (L) and Gisele Bundchen arrive for the 2018 Met Gala on May 7, 2018, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (Photo by Angela WEISS \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

B\u00fcndchen\u00a0and Brady share two children, Benjamin Rein<\/a>, 12, and daughter\u00a0Vivian Lake<\/a>, 9, (she considers Brady’s son Jack with ex Bridget Moynahan her “bonus” kid). “When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together,” B\u00fcndchen recalled. “As time goes by, we realize that we just wanted different things, and now we have a choice to make. That doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t 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\u2019s a dance. It\u2019s a balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says she wants nothing but the best for Brady, who officially retired from the NFL for the second time<\/a> in early February. \u201cListen, I have always cheered for him, and I would continue forever. If there\u2019s one person I want to be the happiest in the world, it\u2019s him, believe me. I want him to achieve and to conquer. I want all his dreams to come true. That\u2019s what I want, really, from the bottom of my heart.”<\/p>\n

What she wants for herself now is to do what makes her happy, which includes living at her Costa Rica compound (she also splits her time between Miami, where Brady is based).\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t want to be limited,\u201d B\u00fcndchen said. “I want to spread my wings and fly.”<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Courtesy of Burberry \/ Luigi & Iango<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As one of the highest paid supermodels of all time, she’s been getting back into the swing of things with new editorials and campaigns, including a bikini-clad Burberry ad last year<\/a> and the new Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama collaboration<\/a>. But she doesn’t only<\/em> see herself modeling in the future: “One of my dreams is I want to play a superhero,” she shared.<\/p>\n

As for her love life, she brushes off the rumors that she’s dating her longtime\u00a0jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente<\/a>, whom she’s been seen with out and about with in Costa Rica multiple times, saying tabloids will “attach” her to anything. What she does is praise Joaquim<\/a> and his brothers, Pedro and Gu, who are also instructors. “I\u2019m so grateful to know all of them, because not only have they helped me and helped my kids, but they have become great friends, and Joaquim especially,” she said in her interview. “He\u2019s our teacher and, most importantly, he\u2019s a person that I admire and that I trust. It\u2019s so good to have that kind of energy, to have my kids around that type of energy.”<\/p>\n

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Gisele B\u00fcndchen\/Instagram<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She compared her situation to “a death and a rebirth,” but it looks like she’s currently on the rebirth side of her story. “No one is going to come save you. Never give your power away to nobody.<\/em> This is your life. This is your movie. You are the director on it,” she said.<\/p>\n

Wise words for anyone to live by!<\/p>\n

Read GRAZIA USA<\/em>\u2019s Spring issue featuring cover star Lucy Boynton:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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