One of the first bumps in the road Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady faced in their relationship? A little bonus baby drama. Bündchen has admitted that she struggled when she found out very early in her romance with Brady that his ex-girlfriend, Bridget Moynahan, was pregnant with his child. “It was a challenging thing because here I am, you know, thinking, I’m dating this guy, we met, and we started dating and everything is great and then this happens. So, I felt like I didn’t know what to do,” she admitted to “CBS This Morning” in 2015. “I think it was very challenging for everyone involved,” she added.
Bündchen also wrote about the experience in her book “Lessons: My Path To A Meaningful Life,” three years later, doubling down on the fact that they weathered quite the storm when the news came. “In the beginning, you’re thinking, ‘This can’t be true, it’s so good!’ And then, whoops — wake-up call. I felt my world had been turned upside down,” she said of the moment Brady told her, two months into their relationship and just one day before the whole world found out the news. Fortunately, things did straighten themselves out and Bündchen always appeared to be a loving and doting stepmom to Brady and Moynahan’s son, Jack. “[Jack] has been a huge gift and blessing,” she wrote, sweetly referring to him as her “bonus child.”
