Tom Brady’s three sons wished their father good luck before his first NFL home game of the season in Tampa. The Buccaneers shared a video of the family hugging before Sunday’s game against Green Bay.
However, Brady’s wife, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, 42, was not at the stadium, a situation that caused endless assumptions. In the video, Brady, 45, hugs his three children: Jack, 15, whom he fathered with “Blue Bloods” star Bridget Moynahan, and the two children he had with Gisele: Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9.
Brady leaned over his daughter as she smiled before the game. He then hugged Benjamin before Vivian whispered to the quarterback, prompting him to kiss her forehead tenderly. After he appears to walk away to start the game, Brady reaches down to hug his oldest son.
The children are understood to have been brought to the game by Brady’s mother and her sisters. The viral moment comes as Gisele and Tom’s relationship is said to be in crisis. DailyMail.com confirmed that the couple currently lives separately.
During warm-ups for the game, Brady was photographed wearing a T-shirt that featured his high school yearbook photo with the caption, “Greatness lasts forever.”
Brady suffered a finger injury before the matchup with Aaron Rodgers’ Packers, the Bucs said this week. It was later revealed that the injury was on Brady’s ring finger, on his right hand. Coach Todd Bowles said Friday that the injury would not affect his playing ability.
What has Gisele said about their relationship?
Gisele has spoken on several occasions about how she put her modeling career second so that Brady could chase down seven Super Bowl wins, on his way to becoming arguably the greatest quarterback of all time.
“I don’t think relationships just happen; it’s never the fairy tale that people want to believe it to be. It takes work to really be in sync with someone, especially after you have kids. Her focus is on her career, mine is mostly in children,” he told Britain’s Vogue magazine last May.
In a recent interview with Elle magazine, Gisele said she had “concerns” about Brady’s return to football, a decision that made him the oldest quarterback to play in the NFL.
“This is a very violent sport, and I have my kids and I wish he was more around. I’ve definitely had those conversations with him over and over again. But ultimately, I feel like everyone needs to make a decision that works for ( them). He must also follow his joy,” he assured.
Gisele added that she was “very fulfilled, as a mother and as a wife,” adding in an apparent reference to her own career: “And now it’s my turn.”
But since Brady’s decision to retire, his life has been overshadowed by questions about football once again. Gisele skipped an event at New York fashion week even though she was supposed to attend and was in town. She was reportedly seen crying on the phone and photographed with her daughter Vivian Lake with no Brady in sight.
ABC