Reports Suggest Divorce Was ‘Go-To Choice of Weapon’ for Gisele Bündchen to Get Tom Brady to Retire From Football

Oct 19, 2022 | 12:00 PM EDT

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Tom Brady and his wife, Gisele Bündchen, are going through a rough time in their relationship. The situation between the couple was reported to be tense ever since Brady decided to come out of retirement just 40 days after hanging the boots.

New reports suggest that this wasn’t the first time that the couple came on the brink of splitting up.

Are Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen headed for a divorce?

TMZ has come out with a report that this isn’t the first time that Bündchen has threatened to divorce Tom Brady. It has happened several times in the past. Each time, it has been over the fact that Brady put his career over family. Bündchen has previously left Brady many times over the last few years and also threatened to divorce him. But the couple worked it out between them each time on those previous occasions.

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The report also said that Gisele had an issue with her husband playing football as he would get a concussion at almost every game. Bündchen wanted Brady to retire from the game and focus on his family. He did retire from the NFL early in 2022 but returned to the game just 40 days after the said announcement. This reportedly didn’t go down well with Bündchen.

Careers of Brady and Bündchen

Tom Brady is arguably the greatest quarterback the NFL has ever seen. He has won the Super Bowl title a record seven times. Six of them have come for the New England Patriots while he also won one ring with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Brady made his debut in the NFL for the Patriots in the year 2000. The 45-year-old quarterback has appeared in over 308 games in the league till date. He has thrown a staggering 82,115 yards in his NFL career and scored 608 touchdowns. Eye-popping stats. He joined the Buccaneers ahead of the 2020 season after spending around two decades with the Patriots.

Brady and Bündchen got married in 2009 when she was at the height of her career as a fashion model. Bündchen holds the record of appearing on the most number of Vogue Brasil covers. She was with Victoria’s Secret till 2006. The Brazilian model has been one of the biggest fashion stars in history.

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Before getting married to Brady, Bündchen dated actor Leonardo DiCaprio, but the couple later split up. She met Brady on a blind date that was reportedly set up by a mutual friend. The couple has worked things out between them in the past. Will they be able to do that again?

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