Gisele Bundchen appears in Tom Brady’s retirement announcement on Instagram three months after divorce

Tom Brady has shared a series of family snaps with his ex-wife and supermodel, Gisele Bündchen, in their retirement video on social media, just three months after the ex-partner’s divorce was finalized.

The 45-year-old quarterback expressed gratitude to the mother of his two children and ex-partner of 13 years by including her in the resurfaced memories of the seven times he won a Super Bowl ring during his 19-year dynasty at New England. patriots. Patriots and a two-year stint in Florida with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In one particular snapshot, Bündchen, 42, can be seen standing next to Brady on a football field, which appears to have been taken before a Super Bowl game involving the Patriots.

The three-time NFL MVP also shared a family photo from the only time he won a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers in 2021. Brady’s two children from his marriage to Bündchen, Vivian, 10, and Benjamin, 13, appear in the snapshot along with their mother and Jack, 15, Brady’s son from his two-year relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan (2004-2006).

Brady included another snapshot of his ex-wife in a family snapshot before a Patriots Super Bowl game.

On Wednesday, Brady announced that he will hang up his boots “forever,” just one year after coming out of initial retirement to play one more NFL season at the age of 45.

‘Good morning guys, I’m going to get to the point right away. I am leaving forever. I know the process was a big problem last time, so when I woke up this morning I thought I’d hit record and let them know first. It won’t be long. You just get a super emotional retirement essay and I used mine last year,” Brady said in an emotional video.

Bündchen has yet to break her silence on her ex-husband’s decision to finally walk away from football. Lately, the 42-year-old Brazilian has been seen in Costa Rica, trying to resume her career as a model by posing in a series of photo sessions.

She has also been seen working out with her former Jiu-Jitsu instructor Joachim Valente on numerous occasions.

Brady and Bundchen ended their 13-year marriage in October after filing for divorce in Glades County, Florida, according to court records. Circuit Judge Jack Lundy said in his order that the couple’s settlement agreement would not be filed with the court, but “they are ordered to abide by the terms” of that document, as well as a confidential parenting plan for their children. , which has yet to be revealed. .

The former power couple’s divorce came in the midst of Brady’s 23rd NFL season, and in the midst of his first three-game losing streak in 20 years, just months after the seven-time Super Bowl champion ended to his brief retirement in March.

The now-former Buccaneers quarterback, who has long expressed a desire to spend more time with Bündchen and their three children, announced his departure from the game in February, only to change his mind 40 days later.

What else do you have to try? Bündchen told her husband on the sidelines after his last record-breaking Super Bowl win against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in 2021, as Brady himself recounted shortly after the win.

Although Brady initially called his retirement an opportunity to focus his “time and energy on other things that require my attention,” part of his motivation for coming back was what he called “unfinished business” with the Buccaneers.

The team failed to reach the Super Bowl last season in their efforts to repeat as champions, and this season, Tampa Bay was eliminated in the round of the Wild Card Series by Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cwoboys.

Bündchen and Brady were introduced by a mutual friend and married, twice, just over two years later. They said their first ‘I do’ in early 2009 at a Catholic church in Santa Monica, California, before close family and friends, followed by an equally small second wedding at their home in Costa Rica nearly two months later.

Their son Benjamin was born later that year, followed by their daughter Vivian in 2012.