Besides being models, Gisele Bündchen and Bridget Moynahan have one crucial thing in
common: both had children with NFL superstar Tom Brady.
Needless to say, things got messy.
Here is the untold truth about Bündchen and Moynahan's complicated history and relationship.
Hail Brady
In 2005, while at a New England Patriots game at the team's home stadium in Massachusetts,
Bündchen was shown a photo of Tom Brady as the team's quarterback.
Upon seeing what he looked like, the model thought he was, quote, "definitely not too
shabby."
She further revealed what she thought of the football star when speaking to the Boston
Herald, saying:
"He's cute, but if he has a girlfriend, he's gay to me."
At that point in time, Brady and Moynahan had been dating for over two years.
Was Bündchen making a play for Brady by telling the Boston Herald she found him attractive?
She has refuted that idea, but one thing is for sure: by the later part of 2006, Brady
and Moynahan split up and Brady and Bündchen got together.
Quarterback sneak
Brady stayed with Moynahan for a total of three years and, once they called it off,
he didn't waste any time being single.
Almost immediately, Brady and Bündchen became a thing.
Then, just two and a half months into their relationship, the couple received some shocking
news.
Moynahan announced that she was expecting a baby, Brady's baby, and she had made the
decision to raise the baby on her own.
The news hit both of Brady's ladies hard.
Bündchen told Vanity Fair:
"In the beginning you're living this romantic fantasy; you're thinking, This can't be true,
it's so good!
And then, whoops, wake-up call!"
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, Moynahan said that was a "traumatic time" for her,
but she learned a lot.
She explained:
"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."
Baby adjustments
Finding out your new boyfriend's ex-girlfriend is pregnant with his child is a wild scenario,
to be sure, and one that's hard to even imagine happening, outside of your favorite soap opera,
of course.
Bündchen told Vanity Fair that she initially considered encouraging Brady to get back together
with Moynahan.
In the end, Bündchen stuck by her man, reasoning that people don't just break up without a
good reason.
Once some time had passed, Bündchen also went on to view the once "challenging situation"
as a "blessing."
The former model said:
"I wouldn't have seen the integrity in him, the way he was a good person through all the
times.
… It made me feel more in love with him; it made me realize who he was."
Although Moynahan didn't comment on how this situation made her feel toward Brady, it's
likely she had some pretty different feelings.
Out of touch
In a profile of Bündchen for Vanity Fair in 2009, it was revealed that she and Brady's
ex had no contact with each other.
Zilch.
At that point, they actually hadn't even met.
Yikes.
Nearly two and a half years before Bündchen's interview with Vanity Fair, Moynahan had given
birth to her son whom she named John, or "Jack" as he would later be called.
Although Bündchen and Moynahan weren't on speaking terms, Bündchen did have a relationship
with Jack.
She told Vanity Fair:
"I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that, but to me it's not like because somebody
else delivered him, that's not my child.
I feel it is, 100 percent."
She went on to say that she loved Jack as her own, adding, "I already feel like he's
my son, from the first day."
Publicity stunt?
According to a source People alleged is close with Moynahan, Bündchen's remarks about Jack
in the 2009 Vanity Fair profile weren't exactly welcome.
The source reportedly revealed:
"Bridget has her own life, she doesn't need to be involved in the drama of all this…"
The source continued to say that "If Tom is such a great father" he'd ask Bündchen "not
to use his son as a publicity prop and a subject of public discussion."
For her part, Moynahan was quick to quash any family feud rumors, saying:
"I never made a comment about Gisele or Tom publicly.
I have a relationship with these people on a daily basis.
I'm raising a child, and it's public.
The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life."
Not quite besties
Moynahan and Bündchen would continue to foster a healthy relationship with each other.
In 2014, both former models were photographed hugging while Moynahan was dropping her son
off to visit Brady and Bündchen.
According to E!:
"[...] the two ladies exchanged a quick hug and looked like they had nothing but admiration
for each other as Brady stood by their side and chatted with his son."
It seems in the time that elapsed since Moynahan first acknowledged her relationship with Bündchen
in 2011 and this friendly hug in 2014 that the two ladies are, at the very least, amicable.
Though, we wouldn't go as far as to call them best buds.
Baby steps, right?
Brady bash
As of 2018, not much more in the way of reconciliation has been revealed about Gisele Bündchen and
Bridget Moynahan.
Even in Bündchen's tell-all book Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life, details about
her relationship with Moynahan are omitted, causing some to speculate that they're really
not all that amicable.
Moynahan, whether purposefully or not, also added fuel to the fire during the Super Bowl
in 2018.
While presumably watching, she took to Twitter, writing, "#NickFoles is having an amazing
game."
Nick Foles, of course, being the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, the very team
Tom Brady and the rest of the Patriots were up against in the biggest game of the year.
Fans instantly responded, some praising Moynahan for throwing what seemed like shade on her
famous ex and others in defense of Brady.
Was there really still tension between Moynahan and the Brady-Bündch?
Less than an hour later, Moynahan tweeted again, this time congratulating both teams
for "an amazing game."
Hmm.