Gisele Bündchen Remembers Ex-husband Tom Brady: “So Grateful That He Gave Me Wonderful Children”

“I’m in a different place in my life. I’m able to choose more of what I want,” said Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen to Lee Cowan in an exclusive interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, which aired on Sunday, September 24 on CBS and streamed on Paramount+. Her self-healing journey post her separation from NFL legend Tom Brady has been primarily about being able to choose the right things for herself. Or, as the 43-year-old mother of two likes to put it, “Putting the oxygen mask on yourself first”. However, that hardly means she is any less grateful for her ex-husband and their kids together!

At her part-time home in Costa Rica, secluded and sheltered away from the glamorous and demanding city life, Bündchen is finally able to let her true self flourish. She mentioned how she can now get to be herself away from the limelight – which is someone, contrary to popular belief, who is “not the spotlight loving personality you might think.”

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“I feel like whenever it rains, it pours,” said the runway sensation, referring to her journey so far, studded with both highs and lows. In October 2022, the former couple made a joint announcement about their divorce, following 13 years of marriage. However, they retained a cordial relationship in hopes of working together as a “team” in co-parenting their children.

Together Brady and Bundchen share a 12-year-old son named Benjamin, a 9-year-old daughter named Vivian, and a 15-year-old son named Jack from Brady’s previous relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan. Despite the painful separation, Gisele remains thankful for Brady, as she said, “he’s the father of my kids, so I always wish him the best, and I’m so grateful that he gave me wonderful children.”

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“I think before I was more surviving, and now I’m living, which is different,” said the supermodel who relocated to Miami with her two children post her separation. She has embraced her ‘healing era’ which involves practicing meditation, having plenty of time outdoors, spending quality time with her kids, and focusing on wellness and nourishment. Her refocusing has given way to exciting new endeavors, which include the launch of her second book, ‘Nourish’, and endorsing a brand close to nature and her heart.

Gisele Bündchen endorses a brand in memory of her grandmother 

“Nature is my happy place,” said Bündchen in the interview, where she shared personal experiences with her late grandmother. She remembered her grandmother and her magical powers of healing everything with herbs she grew in her garden, saying, “she was magical for me, she could heal anything!”

Channeling her core memories through her work, she has recently partnered with a herbal supplement brand named Gaia Herbs, becoming its first wellness ambassador. For the supermodel, “it is as much a brand as it is a lifestyle,” since “it is less about business and more about, what she calls, the wisdom of plants.”

Though life did not turn out the way she had hoped for, at 40, an iconic career in the fashion industry, two kids, and a divorce later she is finally able to be her true self – Gisele – as opposed to “her” or the persona that stares back at her from catalogs and billboards. No longer having to play a character, the Brazilian sensation is finally liberated.

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