Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s Most Heartfelt Quotes About Their Relationship

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s Most Heartfelt Quotes About Their Relationship

He won her heart! Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have a love story for the ages. The couple, who celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversary on February 26, 2019, have been candid about their relationship highs and lows over the years. Brady and Bündchen announced their engagement in January 2009 after two years together. They exchanged vows in a low-key ceremony in Santa Monica just one month later. The New England Patriots player and the supermodel share son Benjamin and daughter Vivian. Brady also has a son John with his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, who he dated from 2004 to 2006. Bündchen reflected on learning about Moynahan’s pregnancy in her 2018 memoir, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life. “Two months into our relationship, Tom told me that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant,” she wrote. “The very next day, the news was everywhere and I felt like my world had been turned upside down.” While the former Victoria’s Secret Angel struggled to accept the news, it eventually “brought about so much growth.” Bündchen noted that John is her “bonus child” and he “made my heart expand in ways I didn’t know was possible.” The Brazilian beauty also revealed that watching the NFL star become a father was a special experience and inspired her to want to start a family with him “sooner rather than later.”  Meanwhile, Moynahan is also glad that John “is surrounded by love” by his blended family, telling More magazine in 2011, “My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it’s cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends.” Bündchen and Brady have a strong love for their children — and for each other. The duo shared never-before-seen wedding photos via Instagram on their 10th anniversary along with heartfelt messages of love. “I know our journey has not been easy, but the challenges we have overcome have made our bond stronger and our love grow deeper,” the athlete gushed in his post. Bündchen penned in her tribute to Brady, “There is nothing I love more in this world than you and our family.” Scroll down to see the pair’s most meaningful quotes about their romance!

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s Most Heartfelt Quotes About Their Relationship

He won her heart! Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have a love story for the ages. The couple, who celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversary on February 26, 2019, have been candid about their relationship highs and lows over the years. Brady and Bündchen announced their engagement in January 2009 after two years together. They exchanged vows in a low-key ceremony in Santa Monica just one month later. The New England Patriots player and the supermodel share son Benjamin and daughter Vivian. Brady also has a son John with his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, who he dated from 2004 to 2006. Bündchen reflected on learning about Moynahan’s pregnancy in her 2018 memoir, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life. “Two months into our relationship, Tom told me that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant,” she wrote. “The very next day, the news was everywhere and I felt like my world had been turned upside down.” While the former Victoria’s Secret Angel struggled to accept the news, it eventually “brought about so much growth.” Bündchen noted that John is her “bonus child” and he “made my heart expand in ways I didn’t know was possible.” The Brazilian beauty also revealed that watching the NFL star become a father was a special experience and inspired her to want to start a family with him “sooner rather than later.”  Meanwhile, Moynahan is also glad that John “is surrounded by love” by his blended family, telling More magazine in 2011, “My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it’s cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends.” Bündchen and Brady have a strong love for their children — and for each other. The duo shared never-before-seen wedding photos via Instagram on their 10th anniversary along with heartfelt messages of love. “I know our journey has not been easy, but the challenges we have overcome have made our bond stronger and our love grow deeper,” the athlete gushed in his post. Bündchen penned in her tribute to Brady, “There is nothing I love more in this world than you and our family.” Scroll down to see the pair’s most meaningful quotes about their romance!

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Safety Guaranteed

Bündchen shared in November 2019 how she can always count on Brady to protect her. “My friends always ask me as a Brazilian how do I survive the New England cold,” she wrote. “I have a really cozy @tombrady blanket  .”

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Showing His Appreciation

On International Women’s Day in March 2020, Brady said via Instagram that Bündchen and their daughter, Vivian, are among the women who “make my world go round.”

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Doing the Work

During an April 2020 appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Brady opened up about how Bündchen once felt he wasn’t doing his part for their family. The athlete said he had to “check” himself and make a “big transition” to improve their bond. “She wasn’t satisfied with our marriage. So I needed to make a change in that,” he explained.

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Love at First Sight

“We met through a friend. The moment I saw him, he smiled and I was like, ‘That is the most beautiful, charismatic smile I’ve ever seen!’ We sat and talked for three hours,” Bündchen told Vanity Fair in March 2009. “I had to go home for Christmas, but I didn’t want to leave. You know that feeling of, like, you can’t get enough? From the first day we met, we’ve never spent one day without speaking to each other.”

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Prince Charming

The Taxi actress told Harper’s Bazaar in March 2009 that Brady “has a very pure heart. He’s naive, almost like a child. That is my favorite quality about him.” She added: “One thing that I thought was so amazing when I first met him is that he is innocent. He sees the world with [rose] colored glasses.”

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Balancing Act

Brady told Details magazine in August 2009 that Moynahan’s pregnancy was not something he “envisioned,” but it brought him closer to Bündchen. “That’s forced me to grow up in a lot of ways and in a lot of ways, I’ve learned about the people around me, learning about my wife and how important she is in my life, through this,” he explained. “You see what she’s really about, because that’s not what she wanted either.”

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Puppy Love

Talk about a light-hearted romance! “I like attention from her, so when I’m not getting it, I let her know in immature ways, like a young, immature child would,” Brady teased to Man of the World magazine in September 2014. “You throw fits and you pout and you whine until you get what you want. She’s on to me, she knows all my tricks. So now I have to learn new tricks. My wife speaks give languages. I tell her I speak two: English and football.”

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One and Only

“I’m blessed to have this life partner that we all kind of seek at different times in our life,” the football hunk told Access Hollywood of Bündchen in May 2016. “We found each other at the right time. We’ve been through a lot of ups and downs together and in so many ways, that’s kind of built our relationship so strong.”

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Their Future

In February 2017, Brady told SiriusXM NFL Radio’s Movin’ the Chains that he and Bündchen often discuss his career: “If it was up to my wife, she would have me retire today. She told me that last night three times. I said, ‘Too bad, babe. I’m having too much fun right now.’ You know, I feel like I can still do it.”

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Dad on Duty

“I have a wife that is very, aspires to be a lot of things and she travels a lot. My oldest son lives here in New York. Three kids and you’re always just trying to juggle and you want to be there for them and you want to be there for the hockey games and the soccer games, but you also realize the level of commitment it takes to give as much as you can to the team that needs you,” Brady explained on Good Morning America in March 2018 of balancing his marriage, family and career. “I think most professionals probably feel the same way. Sometimes it gets out of balance and you’ve got to figure out how to bring it back to a point where it feels great for everybody involved.”

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Her Perfect Person

During her October 2018 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Bündchen revealed that her friends set her up on a few blind dates before arranging a meeting with Brady. “The third blind date was actually Tom and I was like, ‘That’s it. I’m not going on any more blind dates.’ And I figured let’s meet for a drink because, you know, a drink can take three minutes or two hours,” she recalled. “I mean, you can go drink or you can go sipping. But, you know, when I saw those kind eyes, I literally fell in love, like, right away.”

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For Better or for Worse

“Once, when Tom and I were having a rough time, I got an email from him that hurt my feelings. He was in Boston at the time and I was in Costa Rica. Instead of retaliating by sending a hurtful email back, I took out a pen and a piece of paper and, for the next hour, I wrote down my thoughts and emotions, the things that made me angry, the things that made me frustrated, everything I was feeling at the time,” the Devil Wears Prada actress wrote in her October 2018 memoir, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life. “I didn’t censor myself. I also felt relief. … The words in front of me felt honest and intense — crazy intense, actually. Just writing them down made me feel 100 times better. In the end, I never sent the letter.”

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Going the Distance

In her book, the businesswoman spoke candidly about making her marriage work. “Tom is someone you can count on. It’s a quality I hadn’t experienced in any of my other romantic relationships. I love my husband and most of all, I trust him,” wrote Bündchen, who previously dated Leonardo DiCaprio and surfer Kelly Slater. “With Tom, who provides our family with a stable foundation, I’m able to create a home. [We] complement each other. My husband is rational, analytical and a man of few words. I’m emotional, intuitive, changeable and a woman of many words. I’ve learned a lot from Tom.”

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Sometimes 'Difficult'

Brady reflected on the "very difficult issue" of his potential retirement during an October 2021 "Let's Go" podcast episode, thanking his wife for the sacrifices she's made while raising their family. "I think my wife has, you know, held down the house for a long time now, and I think there's things that she wants to accomplish," he said. "You know, she hasn't worked as much in the last 10, 12 years just raising our family and kind of committing to being in a life in Boston and then moving to Florida."

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Being a Cheerleader

"I've done my part, which is [to] be there for [Tom]," Bündchen explained in her October 2022 Elle cover story while discussing Brady's brief NFL retirement. "I moved to Boston, and I focused on creating a cocoon and a loving environment for my children to grow up in and to be there supporting him and his dreams. Seeing my children succeed and become the beautiful little humans that they are, seeing him succeed, and being fulfilled in his career — it makes me happy. At this point in my life, I feel like I've done a good job on that. ... He needs to follow his joy, too."