Remember when media outlets spotted Tom Brady and Irina Shayk cozying up” in L.A. back in 2023? The world raised its collective eyebrow as reports of Brady gently stroking Irina’s cheek in a car made the rounds. The internet did what it does—speculated, stirred, and tried to guess how Gisele Bündchen might feel about her ex diving into a new romance. An insider told TMZ that the Brazilian model wasn’t thrilled. Others insisted she was unbothered and actually happy for him. Depends on which insider you trust.

But while Tom was grabbing headlines with cheek-strokes and romance, Gisele? She was quietly rewriting the post-divorce playbook. Cut to present-day Miami, where Gisele’s been busy building something real. Basically, she’s leveling up. After finalizing her divorce from Brady, she changed her vibe with a sun-kissed $11.5M waterfront mansion in Surfside, a sleepy, posh pocket that barely spans half a square mile.

Now, in a PageSix exclusive, locals said: Gisele lives low-key on a cul-de-sac, far from the celebrity chaos. “I’ve never seen her at the community pool, which is only open to Surfside residents, or at the local Publix.” But the surfers and her neighbors have spotted her—grappling, literally—with her new man, Joaquim Valente, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor who started as her trainer and now shares a son with her.

Oh yeah, if you missed it: Gisele shocked everyone in October 2024 with pregnancy news. She and Joaquim welcomed their baby boy in February. They’ve kept his name mostly under wraps, but People reported the middle name is River—a fitting match for Benjamin Rein and Vivian Lake. Classic Gisele—always on theme.

Neighbors see her now walking around in workout gear, baby in a front carrier, dog leash in hand. Just another mom in the neighborhood, blending into Surfside’s least-starstruck streets. Except this mom used to rule global runways.

But here’s the real kicker: Gisele didn’t just pivot to family and low-key living. She flipped the script completely. Just quiet reinvention. And then in February—boom—a bold new chapter. Gisele and Joaquim dropped $1.2 million on a Schaefer V44 yacht. Big money move. It’s their floating sanctuary.

Now, ever since the baby’s arrival, the couple has traded reformer workouts for seafaring adventures—cruising through Miami’s waters, soaking in sunsets, and yes, kissing on deck like it’s their own rom-com reboot. Recently, some surfers spotted the Brazilian couple cuddling on their million-dollar yacht.

Gisele was soaking the Miami sun in luxury, wearing a black swimsuit, sunglasses, tan fedora, with a signature beachy hair. “Seas the day!” one outlet quipped. But let’s not pretend this is just about swimsuits and ocean breeze. It’s more like a getaway from all the Brady talks which hold her back still. Yes, even now, 3 years later.

It’s time to move on from Gisele and Tom Brady’s chapter

You ever replay a game in your head that you know ended badly, but you just can’t stop rewinding the highlights? That’s kind of what fans are still doing with Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen. In their minds, it’s still the 2010s, and the power couple’s sitting front-row at the Met Gala, all smiles, championship rings glinting in the flashbulbs. Alas, it has ended. The final whistle blew.

Rewind to 2020—Tom Brady sat down with Howard Stern and actually got real about the cracks forming behind the picture-perfect facade. “She wasn’t satisfied with our marriage,” Brady admitted. She felt like the team effort was one-sided. “It all works for you,” she told him. And he knew—something had to change. But it didn’t. Because by August 2022, the Bucs excused Brady from practice for “personal things,” and we all kind of knew what that meant.

Then came the subtle signs. Brady was MIA for 11 days. Gisele jetted to Costa Rica. “There’s a lot of tension,” one source said. “She wasn’t thrilled at all when he went back on that.” She was hoping for retirement, for family. What she got was another season. And another. By October, divorce lawyers were in the huddle. “She is playing offense and he is playing defense,” a source told People. Yet despite everything, Gisele made it clear in interviews that this wasn’t some dramatic football-versus-family standoff. “That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard,” she said.

According to her, it was bigger than just the divorce. It was two people growing apart and eventually accepting the game plan had changed. Fast forward to 2024, and Gisele was starting fresh with Valente. But fans had opinions about certain rumors. She didn’t mean to address them, but was forced to as she told New York Times, “That’s a lie! This is something that happens to a lot of women who get blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as being unfaithful.” But it’s all dulled down, and she’s a new mom again, and seems at peace with her new life.

Meanwhile, Brady’s quoting 19-year-old TikTok philosophers on Instagram and posting grainy footage of Lombardi lifts like he’s rewatching old game film in the locker room at 2 a.m. Look, that man misses something. Maybe it’s her. Maybe it’s who he was when he was with her.  But either way? The Gisele-and-Tom era is over.