On Monday, Gisele Bundchen went to see her spiritual healer in Miami. The healer is Dr. Ewa, who practices “Ayurvedic Medicine,” another way Westerners have appropriated Indian medicine, spirituality and religion. Gisele has seen Dr. Ewa before, but we don’t know what Gisele is having done. It’s clear that Gisele is completely over her marriage at this point, and she’s focused on healing and the next steps of her journey. Meanwhile, Tom said words during an interview on that same day, Monday:
Tom Brady admits he’s been struggling amid ongoing marital woes with Gisele Bündchen.
“There’s things I’m going through in my 40s and it’s life,” the NFL star, 45, explained on Monday’s episode of his SiriusXM podcast “Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray.”
“And you learn to grow up and you learn to deal with life. And that’s what we’re all trying to do. We’re trying to do it the best way we can.”
When asked how he takes care of his mental health, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback said that “everyone has different situations” going on that can cause stress.
“I think you realize that there’s a lot, especially in today’s day and age, with how fast things are happening in life for all of us, and the amount of responsibilities we have.”
Brady added that he often holds himself to a “certain standard that we’re almost inhuman,” noting that he’s also “immune” to a lot of the “things that life brings” over time.
“You wake up every day trying to do the best you can do, understanding that life has its stresses,” he explained. “And to deal with them with a great support system and understanding and having some introspectiveness in your life where you can look at yourself and say, ‘Where do I need to commit my time and energy to? And how can I lessen some of the stress and lessen the burden on me so that I can be good for people around me.’” He continued, “So those are all different things that I work at.”
Is he just NOW realizing that he has responsibilities beyond football? Responsibilities involving his three children and a wife who always put his needs ahead of her own? “How fast things are happening in life for all of us” = Life has come at me fast, bro. I didn’t expect her to leave me, I thought she would put everything in her life on hold for me indefinitely forever! Anyway, I kind of love the fact that Tom truly didn’t expect Gisele to actually pull the ripcord and he’s still got a “scrambling” air around him.
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- Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen at arrivals for Camp: Notes on Fashion Met Gala Costume Institute Annual Benefit – Part 3, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY May 6, 2019. Photo By: Kristin Callahan/
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- Monaco, MONACO – **FILE PHOTOS** Like many public spaces across the country, parks in Tampa, Florida, are closed to visitors because of restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus. That didn’t prevent one man from trying to get an outdoor workout recently. The scofflaw was none other than new Tampa resident Tom Brady, according to Mayor Jane Castor. And, yes, the superstar quarterback was sighted (not cited), she said. Park staff came across Brady while patrolling a downtown park, Castor said Monday during a joint news briefing with St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman. “I got to tell you this story, too. Now, I always tell people, I’m not one to gossip so you didn’t hear this from me,” Castor said. “Our parks are closed down; and so a lot of our parks staff they patrol around just to make sure that people aren’t doing contact sports and things like that, and saw an individual working out in one of our downtown parks,” Castor said. “And she went over to tell him that it was closed and it was Tom Brady.” Pictured here during a Tag Heuer event during the 76th Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix **SHOT ON 05/26/2018** Pictured: Tom Brady BACKGRID USA 21 APRIL 2020 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Tom Brady is retiring from football after 22 seasons in which he won a historic seven Super Bowl titles. Pictured: Tom Brady BACKGRID USA 29 JANUARY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Portofino, ITALY – Tom Brady cuddles up to wife Gisele Bunchchen as the couple enjoy very romantic getaway to Portofino. The Brazilian model smiled as Tom leaned in to look at something on her phone as the couple were spotted briefly over the weekend during a casual outing. The pair who have been married for 13 years have been enjoying some couple time together before Tom returns to the field again for his 23rd NFL season after initially announcing his retirement in February. The seven-time Super Bowl champion and five-time Super Bowl MVP announced roughly a month later that he’d changed his mind and would play another season with the Buccaneers. Pictured: Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady BACKGRID USA 29 JUNE 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Cobra Team / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
This man is the youngest of 4 and the only boy in a family that grew up in the Catholic church. This man hasn’t had anything but people taking care of him. He is spoiled man baby. I just hope that those kids are okay and know that none of this is their fault. This is all on their father.
Agreed. Football life isn’t real life. And his football career is coming to an end. He’s had people fawning all over him because of his athletic abilities his whole life. And that is now coming to an end. He’s going to have a rough awakening for sure.
Not sure what Catholicism has to do w it?
The Catholic Church refuses to have equal rights for women, they have an upgrade from being chattel. Women can never be priests and priest can’t have relations with women. Hell no to birth control and don’t even think about terminating a pregnancy. I was raised strict Catholic and was expected to be a handmaid. Catholics veer from that path but the rules and institution remain. My family always had a golden child son, when one went rogue the other assumed the title and benefit$. I assume Brady’s family views Tom this way.
Think about MollyB. I’m sure you will figure it out.
I’m not sure either. Nothing about him screams devout. Yes, Catholicism is patriarchal, but so are the vast majority of religions. I don’t remotely think it comes into play. He is the baby of his family and has always been a star athlete. I’m sure he is spoiled as are most rich and famous men. Even regular husbands often don’t pull their weight.
He’s the baby of his family AND the only boy AND a football “hero”?? Lort. That’s like next-level man-baby.
Also, “introspectiveness”?? I howled. He is as dumb as a box of hair.
I was, am, and remain Team Gisele. She has Had It, and with good reason. He should have listened to her. The step after screaming is the silence you can’t come back from.
If f*** around and find out was a person. He has been on extended adolescence, good for her for choosing herself over him and his career.
love that! if fuck around and find out was a person! 😂
LOL u win best comment.
i don’t get why not being ready to retire is such a crime. most 45 year olds still have to work- year long even! i’m baffled as to how people think they can relate a couple of independently wealthy people’s experiences and expectations to their own.
He already has a ten year contract for when he quits football, and a foundation and who knows how many other business interests. Retiring from football wouldn’t be retiring from having anything to do, it is just quoting the job that gives him the adoration and free pass from everything else that he apparently craves.
He’s not retiring from life and going to a rocking chair. He can still work but maybe not play a game where the longer he plays the more likely he’ll end up with neurological damage? Also, they made a deal so she could have her time to do her work and he backed out, that’s what sucks and this is an every day people thing. One spouse/ partner makes a promise to take on more of the family works and then backs out leaving the other holding the bag.
He’s in an extremely dangerous sport that can cause life long repercussions due to head injuries, and he’s almost 20 years older the median retirement age for US football (27yrs is the average). It also makes him almost completely unavailable for 7 months out of the year and he fills those other 5 months with sponsors and ads. Plus the moving to less than exciting locations.
We are nowhere near that tax bracket, but as a military couple we have made similar arrangements. I got out to take care of the kids and provide some stability in a life that has us moving constantly and leaving the kids with just one parent 70% of the time. He will retire when he’s 41 and I’m 36, which leaves me with the opportunity to use my degree and pursue my own career path. If he chose to stay in past his 20 yrs without me agreeing, I would be livid. I don’t care if 41 is young for retirement and he thinks he has more to give or whatever. We made that decision as a team.
Just wanted to say this is it, 100%!
It’s not about retiring v. not retiring. It’s about not doing what he promised her he would. It could be anything, but he’s made at least 2 promises around retirement (that we are aware of) and reneged on both of them.
It’s completely reasonable that she is done putting up with a spoiled man who refuses to take responsibility for honouring his commitments to his wife and children.
It’s different for a football player — especially a quarterback. Having a long NFL career significantly increases the risk of cognitive impairment and depression later in life. Conditions like severe osteoarthritis, knee and hip replacements are common. Furthermore, his obsession with football has meant he hasn’t been there, physically mentally or emotionally, for his family. He isn’t retiring per se, he’s got a gazillion dollar gig with Fox Sports waiting for him, which means he’ll still be obsessed with football and not there physically, mentally or emotionally for his family. Gisele reached the end of her patience and is taking her life back.
When discussing his responsibilities, are we sure he isn’t just talking about football?
Oh my God, the line about how he can “lessen the stress and lessen the burden” on himself. Dude, that was you leaning on your wife and only now that she’s gone, you’re realizing it? He’s such a 💩.
Tommy Boy has finally met his match in the ego department and is shook. He really don’t know what to do when he is told no.
So helpful
He really should have married someone unknown who had no ambition in life except to be “the wife of” and would be happy to travel anywhere for him, taking care of the kids and home. You can’t expect an already very successful person to turn that part of themselves off forever. Perhaps for a little while but eventually they are going to have too much drive to give up their career and identity entirely.
That would have required self-awareness. I don’t get that vibe from him.
He wanted the perks of a super famous wife though – Red carpets and met galas. More money then he can count. Attention from press that doesn’t usually cover football. Envy from other men.
You rarely get all that with a non famous WAG
I understand your point, but in a way he DID have that. Gisele did mostly do the SAHM thing. She has been holding down the fort for years while he played. He is now nearly 20 years past the median retirement age for football. And every year he plays ups his chances for MORE brain damage.
An unknown wife who was 100% content to be the SAHM forever still wouldn’t be keen on the way he made a promise and broke it. (Though yes, a different woman might have less resentment because they wouldn’t be putting off the kind of career Gisele has put off. And modeling has a time limit, maybe less so for those at the top of the game like Gisele, but still)
Oh to have the freedom to act like a man.
His support system walked away (and rightfully so), and he’s probably scrambling.
On a side note, I recently listened to a podcast about him and his personal “doctor” back in his Patriots days, and woohoo, either he is shady AF or dumb as a post to not realize what was going on there.
Could you please tell me what the podcast was?
I am interested!
It almost sounds from his talk as though he has been told by his professional sports support team that focusing on himself and maximizing everything for himself is how he is the best teammate possible.
I can see how trainers would facilitate this attitude for a sportsman like himself.
But, holy cow, what a miserable translation into a marriage team.
We’ve just had an awful story come out in Australia following an investigation into a football teams treatment of Indigenous players, that the coaching staff on a number of occasions encouraged players to break up and cut off contact with partners or family (including giving them new SIM cards) and to terminate pregnancies.
Brady is obviously hugely more powerful than most and to some extent seems to buy into the experiment of “how far can I push myself if my entire life is built around the team rather than my family”, but the Hawthorn investigation really showed these clubs just see these men’s bodies as tools to grind the most performance out of, not actual human beings. Also that their families are of equal importance in this world as the man they’re related to who is good at kicking a ball.
Ya know, it is correct that Tom Brady is an over grown man-child.
His entire life has been football since he was very young.
IMO, he needs therapy or something to make him realize that at 45, he should be an Adult by now.
Stop making excuses for him.
He has enough money to retire, and spend his days with his kids.
His oldest is 15, a few more years and that kid will be off living his own life.
IRL, we all have our problems.
The majority of us, are under pressure and stress every day without TB’s money to ease our worries.
Grow Up. His decision to play showed his wife and kids they are #2. behind his job.
G has more money than he does. Why should she continue to do everything for the family while he is a constant spoiled man?
I always thought that they were a really odd couple beyond complimentary looks. He seems more suited to a Camille Kostek, hot cheerleader type. She’s always seemed too sophisticated and worldly for him. She’s not leaving him solely because of the broken promises. I think the honeymoon ended a long time ago when the kids weren’t babies and she had more time to notice that he just isn’t her type. I’m sure she is completely over talking about, watching and socializing around American Football.
I just read that he won his last game by insisting the referee penalize the player who sacked him (which happened) and the other team ran out of time to win. Also, Tom kicked at the player that sacked him multiple times without any penalty. Yes, Tom gets the golden treatment. I read sports fan comments on this and one said Tom should just be bubble wrapped while he plays because that’s the treatment he generally gets anyway. Imagine kicking at his opponent’s genitals MULTIPLE times in a game and with no penalty? He is a dirty player and I have NO DOUBT he deflated those balls. So yes, he demands and has always gotten special treatment on and off the field. He is so CONFUSED that Gisele actually left him. That wasn’t supposed to happen!!!!
You are always posting these silly commnets. He didnt kick that player and he didnt force the ref to penalize that player, that’s what the ref wanted to do… He didnt deflate balls, you know the NFL never preved anything.
TB is a douche!!! I just don’t understand all the hoopla about him. Personally, I cannot stand the SOB and his holier than thou attitude. Phuck him!!
TB = Deflategate