Tuesday February 20, 2007
Actress Bridget Moynahan’s announcement on Sunday that she is expecting a child with ex-boyfriend Tom Brady took everyone by surprise – but apparently no one was more surprised than Brady himself.
A source tells Us the Six Degrees star didn’t inform the New England Patriots quarterback until the last minute that she was planning on announcing that she is more than three months pregnant through Liz Smith’s New York Post gossip column.
A friend of Brady's tells Us that the Superbowl champ was blindsided by Moynahan’s press blitz. “He’s disappointed this is how she’s decided to play it,” says the pal. “She announced it to make him look like a jerk.”
While the friend says the couple didn’t know Moynahan, 36, was pregnant when they broke up in November, Brady “has known about it for a while.”
The baby announcement apparently put a damper on Brady’s romantic Paris getaway with new girlfriend Gisele Bundchen. The couple was vacationing at The Ritz when news of the pregnancy broke.
On the night of February 17, Brady, 29, began “taking constant calls on his cell” while at the hotel, says a Ritz source.
But the 26-year-old supermodel -- who'd been acting as tour guide for her man during sojourns to Versailles and Cafe de la Paix -- didn’t seem fazed that their sightseeing was interrupted.
Says the source: “Whenever he started to look stern, Gisele would give him a kiss and say, ‘Stay cool.’”
In answer to the constant questions, Brady's camp issued this boilerplate statement: "Tom and his family are excited about the pregnancy, and want to thank everyone who has shown support, and particularly for their consideration of Tom's privacy."
Meanwhile, a Moynahan friend denies that the I, Robot actress was trying to make her ex look bad in the press saying, “The timing of the announcement wasn’t anything more than she’s starting to show.”
As for the timing, says the pal, “Around the time he found out, he started being seen with Gisele. Imagine how that felt.”
If Brady had known that he was going to be a father at the time of the split, would the devout Catholic, who met with the Pope in 2004, have stayed?
Not likely, explains the Brady pal: “The relationship was rocky.”
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Posted by Noelle Hancock at 11:56 am ET
