Inside Gisele's Relationship With Tom Brady's Ex

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Only a couple months into Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen's relationship, People reported that his actor-model ex-girlfriend, Bridget Moynahan, was three months pregnant with the NFL star's baby. And just like that, Bündchen's blossoming fairytale romance quickly turning into a nightmare. "Tom told me his ex-girlfriend was pregnant," the supermodel wrote in her 2018 memoir "Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life" (via ET). "The very next day the news was everywhere, and I felt my world had been turned upside down." To be fair, it wasn't exactly a cakewalk for Moynahan either, who reflected on this "traumatic time" in a 2008 interview with Harper's Bazaar. "It's golden and it's tough and it was f***ed up," she explained. "But now I have a child and it's the best thing in the world."

Perhaps expectedly, Bündchen considered leaving the relationship to encourage a reconciliation between Brady and Moynahan. However, she eventually decided against it because, as she told Vanity Fair in 2009, "When people break up, it's for a reason." While the supermodel's decision to stay might have seemed risky at the time, things have since turned out pretty great for herself, Brady, and their romance. "I think it was a blessing," she admitted to the outlet. "Because otherwise I don't think I would have known what he was made of, and he wouldn't have known what I was made of." 

So instead of tearing these lovebirds apart, Bündchen revealed that the difficult time strengthened their love and bond.

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