Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen.Photo: George Pimentel/Getty
Despite her split fromTom Brady,Gisele Bündchenis always rooting for his success and happiness.
In her new April 2023cover story forVanity Fair, the 42-year-old supermodel slammed rumors that she and the newly retiredNFLstar, 45, split over his decision to continue playing professional football past a time she was comfortable with.
Calling the buzz “very hurtful” and “the craziest thing I’ve ever heard,” Bündchen continued of her ex-husband, “Listen, I have always cheered for him, and I would continue forever.”
“If there’s one person I want to be thehappiest in the world, it’s him, believe me,” she added. “I want him to achieve and to conquer. I want all his dreams to come true. That’s what I want, really, from the bottom of my heart.”
Bündchen and Bradyfinalized their divorcelast October, shortly afterannouncing their decision to splitafter 13 years of marriage. The two share daughterVivian, 10, and sonBenjamin, 13, while Brady is also dad to sonJack, 15.
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Gisele Bündchen forVanity Fair’s April 2023 cover story.Lachlan Bailey/Vanity Fair
The Brazilian fashion icon lamented toVanity Fairover how “people really made” their split “about” his back-and-forth decision on retirement.
“What’s been said is onepiece of a much bigger puzzle,” Bündchen added later in her conversation with the magazine. “It’s not so black and white.”
In their case, she explained, they “wanted different things” compared to when they met in their 20s.
“Sometimesyou grow together; sometimes you grow apart,” she said. “When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together.”
Gisele Bündchen on the cover ofVanity Fair’s April 2023 issue.Lachlan Bailey/Vanity Fair
And while it “doesn’t mean you don’t love the person,” Bündchen said, “It just means that in order for you to be authentic and truly live the life that you want to live, you have to have somebody who can meet you in the middle, right? It’s a dance. It’s a balance.”
“Whenyou love someone, you don’tput them in a jail and say, ‘You have to live this life,’ " she added. “You set them free to be who they are, and if you want to fly the same direction, then that’s amazing.”
And the mother of two insisted that she and her ex are “not playing against each other” — instead,they remain “a team… and that’s beautiful.”
“I look back and I have no regrets,” Bündchen said of their relationship. “I loved every bit of it.”
source: people.com
