Supermodel Gisele, wife of QB Tom Brady, says stress low at home during playoffs
NEW YORK – It might be NFL playoff time in the Tom Brady-Gisele Bundchen household, but the stress doesn’t carry over at home.
“He’s very focused,” the 33-year-old Bundchen said of Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots. “We are both very supportive of one another in what we do. … Of course nobody likes to lose. Those aren’t the best days. He knows he does his best. He works extremely hard.”
The three-time Super Bowl champion and his New England Patriots travel to Denver on Sunday to play the Broncos in the AFC title game.
To stay calm, the Brazilian model says the couple winds down differently.
“At night if my husband is watching TV and watching football, I have my little book and I put something in my ears so I don’t hear it and I put my light (on) and have my book and I’m like, ‘Ohhh.’ He’s feeding his soul and that’s important to him to watch football. I only want to watch if I’m watching him,” she said.
And win or lose, family comes first. Brady has a 6-year-old son, John, whose mother is actress Bridget Moynahan. Bundchen and Brady have a 4-year-old son, Ben, and a 1-year-old daughter, Vivian.
“He’s very loving and it’s a wonderful thing. In our house we are very affectionate,” she said. “I think it’s very important for the boys to know that it’s OK to hug and to kiss and you’re not less than a man.”
Bundchen recently was named a brand ambassador for Pantene hair products. She’s worked with the company in Brazil since 2007.
When she’s not working, Bundchen says she doesn’t have much time to put into her locks and laughs that her go-to style is a “sleek bun.”
She doesn’t even own a hairbrush.
“In my job you have to remember people are brushing my hair every day. You have to remember the last thing I want (on a day off) is a brush in my hair!” she said.
Bundchen says she’s committed to being healthy and treating her body right in order to look and feel her best.
“Products are amazing but if you are putting things that are unhealthy inside your body it’s just masking stuff. … I haven’t drank soda in 10 years.
“My kids eat what I eat. The first (solid) food my son had was papaya and then avocado. … He loves garlic because we eat a lot of garlic in our house. Even my little daughter. … She will not eat anything unless there’s garlic. Garlic and ginger. … They really eat what I eat.”
NFL quarterback Tom Brady and girlfriend Gisele Bundchen arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York on Monday, May 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
** FILE ** In this Monday, May 5, 2008 file photo, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York. Costa Rica’s media are reporting Friday, April 3, 2009 that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are in the Central American country to celebrate a second wedding. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
FILE – In this May 4, 2009 file photo, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
FILE – In this May 3, 2010 file photo, Tom Brady, left, and Gisele Bundchen arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
New England Patriots football player Tom Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala, Monday, May 2, 2011 in New York. (AP Photos/Peter Kramer)
FILE – In this June 9, 2011 file photo, Gisele Bundchen arrives at the taping of “TV Land Presents: AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Morgan Freeman” in Culver City, Calif. The special will air June 19th on TV Land. Bundchen, supermodel and wife of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, was stopped for speeding over the weekend and given a verbal warning by a Massachusetts state trooper. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, Monday, May 7, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, Monday, May 7, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen with their son Benjamin Brady after a joint workout with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at NFL football training camp, in Foxborough, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit celebrating “PUNK: Chaos to Couture” on Monday, May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
FILE – This May 7, 2012 file photo shows New England Patriots football player Tom Brady and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit in New York. Brady and Bundchen have announced the birth of their second child, a girl named Vivian Lake. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen embrace their son Benjamin Brady after a joint workout with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at NFL football training camp, in Foxborough, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady carries his son Benjamin with his wife Gisele Bundchen at right after a joint workout with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at NFL football training camp, in Foxborough, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, “Punk: Chaos to Couture”, on Monday, May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
This image released by Disneyland shows New England Patriots player Tom Brady, second left, with his son Jack, 5, left, and his wife Gisele Bundchen, and their son Benjamin, 3, posing in front of Red the Fire Truck at Cars Land during a visit to Disney California Adventure park in Anaheim, Calif., on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Disneyland, Paul Hiffmeyer)
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, left, attends Carnival celebrations with her husband, U.S. football player Tom Brady at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
This Jan. 6, 2014 photo shows Fashion model Gisele Bundchen posing for a portrait in New York. Bundchen is the new spokesperson for Pantene hair products. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
This Jan. 6, 2014 photo shows Fashion model Gisele Bundchen posing for a portrait in New York. Bundchen is the new spokesperson for Pantene hair products. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
This Jan. 6, 2014 photo shows Fashion model Gisele Bundchen posing for a portrait in New York. Bundchen is the new spokesperson for Pantene hair products. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)