Bridget Moynahan once called Tom Brady’s relationship with Gisele Bundchen
“effed up.” So have the NFL star's ex and wife ever worked things out?
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 turned into a nightmare.
The supermodel wrote in her 2018 memoir, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life,
"Tom told me his ex-girlfriend was pregnant. 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. The actress told the outlet:
"It's golden and it's tough
and it was f---ed up. 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. Gisele told Vanity Fair:
"I think it was a blessing. 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. Yes, Gisele Bündchen accepted that
her new boyfriend would soon welcome a child with his ex-girlfriend. But no,
she had very little interest in getting to know Moynahan — and so she didn't. As
revealed in her 2009 interview with Vanity Fair, Bündchen didn't have a relationship with Bridget
Moynahan for several years. Yet, the supermodel shared a deep bond with Moynahan's son, Jack.
It's not at all surprising Bündchen kept her distance from the actor,
because Brady's relationship with Moynahan was also a bit tense
in the earliest days of their son's life. During a 2011 interview with More,
the Coyote Ugly star revealed that Brady wasn't in the delivery room with her when Jack was born:
"He was there on that day and came in afterwards.
He certainly wasn't holding my hand while I pushed."
Gisele Bündchen's close relationship with Jack meant that she often spoke about him to the press.
However, Bridget Moynahan was reportedly just not having it. In 2009, a source close to the
John Wick actor confirmed to People that she wasn't exactly pleased with the media coverage
her son was getting through her ex-boyfriend and the supermodel. The insider told the outlet:
"Bridget has her own life [...] and she finds it disrespectful that her son is being paraded around
in front of the paparazzi when she specifically made it a point of keeping him away from that."
Clearly not mincing words, the source then went on to accuse Brady of indulging
Bündchen's constant mentioning of Jack while in public. The source told People:
"If Tom is such a great father as everyone likes to say
then you would think that he'd respect the privacy of his young child and would ask
his wife not to use his son as a publicity prop and a subject of public discussion."
Despite their differences, Bridget Moynahan and Gisele Bündchen clearly both love
Tom Brady's eldest child — and so putting Jack first has always remained their top priority.
During her 2011 interview with More, Moynahan spoke about her and Brady's co-parenting situation
and how being with supportive partners made it easier for them both. The actress told the outlet:
"My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins
or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love."
This was, of course, evident a few years later, when Moynahan was spotted hanging out with Brady
and Bündchen at a little league game held in a New York City park. According to Us Weekly,
the three looked friendly and even embraced. By 2021, a source close to these three confirmed to
Page Six that, despite their initial friction, Bündchen, Brady, and Moynahan have started to
harmoniously focus on Jack's well-being instead of their own differences. The source told the outlet:
"There were obviously challenges when Gisele had just met Tom,
but Jack made their family blended and it's about family, and nothing else matters, they
make it work because of their love for Jack and the kids. They're a true, modern blended family."
"That's the most important thing you can have in life, you know, a support system and love."
These days, and well over a decade since Jack came into both of their lives,
Gisele Bündchen and Bridget Moynahan have seemingly become good friends. In 2021,
a source even confirmed to Us Weekly that the two women were "on really good terms."
The insider also described Moynahan as, quote, "friendly and easygoing," adding
that her successful co-parenting relationship with ex Tom Brady has remained unchanged.
But even if there was initially no particular reason for these two to be super close,
Moynahan is grateful to Bündchen for loving Jack like one of her own.
The famed actor echoed this sentiment in a 2019 interview with People,
where she opened up about co-parenting amicably with Brady. Moynahan told the outlet:
"Tom and I made a decision to raise a child together and we both found partners that not
only supported us in raising that child but also loved our child as if he was their own.
I don't think you can ask for more than that."
"Just a real special kid. Just fun to be with him. He's good with everything."
For her part, Bündchen feels similar gratitude toward Moynahan. The supermodel told People,
"I know this was hard but I couldn't imagine my life without Jack."
Truly, what better life to have than that filled with love and success — and void of drama,
to boot. It may sound like a dream straight out of an easy-watching Hollywood flick,
but Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, and Bridget Moynahan appear to be living it!