AgenciesThe challenges of a young and attractive couple who appear to have it all.
Not every Tom is just another Tom, Dick or Harry. Some become Tom Brady.
On Sunday, Brady became a six-time winner of the Super Bowl, that time of the year when your friends in the US make a lot of dips. TB12 (12 is his jersey number) was the star quarterback of the New England Patriots, who defeated the Los Angeles Rams in the mega event in Atlanta.
To most Indians, American football is an annual snack binge and little else. But we love to know about celebrities, their love lives and their struggles. Brady, 41, and his supermodel wife from Brazil, 38-year-old Gisele Bündchen, tick all the boxes. (Someone tell Donald Trump, a friend of Brady’s, that Bundchen is an immigrant from South America).
Brady and Bündchen, or Bradychen or Tomele, are Barbie and Ken in flesh and blood, unfairly attractive and very rich. Bündchen , who signed a $25-million contract with a lingerie brand in 2000, has a net worth of over more than $350 million. Her husband is a mere $200 million or thereabouts. The couple have a son and a daughter. Life is never perfect — as we shall see soon — but this comes close.
It wasn’t a chariot ride to the end zone for the two. Bündchen earlier relationship was with another blonde guy whose name might ring a bell: Leonardo DiCaprio. The pressures of her personal and professional life, and the task of adjusting to life in the US, caused her severe anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
Brady had a curve-ball coming his way too. Soon after he started dating Bündchen, he found out that his ex, actress Bridget Moynahan, was pregnant with their son.
“We met each other under pretty trying circumstances,” Brady once said. “And I think in a lot of ways that really challenging experience brought us together, in a very tight way.”
Bündchen addressed her condition in her book and in interviews. Her anxiety was triggered by a turbulent flight in a six-seater plane and then grew into a fear of small places in general. “It felt like everything in my life was going to kill me,” she said. “First it was the airplanes, then elevators. Then it was tunnels and hotels and modelling studios and cars. Now it was my own apartment. Everything had become a cage, and I was the animal trapped inside, panting for air. I couldn’t see a way out, and I couldn’t stand another day of feeling this way.
“The idea swept over me: Maybe it will be easier if I just jump. It will be all over. I can get out of this,” she wrote. “When I think back on that moment, and that 23-year-old girl, I want to cry. I want to tell her that everything will be all right, that she hasn’t even begun to live her life. But in that moment, the only answer seemed to be to jump.”
Bundchen consulted a doctor and cleaned up her lifestyle. Out went cigarettes, sugar and her daily diet of a bottle of wine and three mocha frappuccinos. In came yoga and meditation.
She also met TB12 and developed a friendly relationship with his ex and their son. Bundchen describes Brady as “someone you can count on. It’s a quality I hadn't experienced in any of my other romantic relationships”.
Someone you can count on. The Patriots would agree.
Not every Tom is just another Tom, Dick or Harry. Some become Tom Brady.
On Sunday, Brady became a six-time winner of the Super Bowl, that time of the year when your friends in the US make a lot of dips. TB12 (12 is his jersey number) was the star quarterback of the New England Patriots, who defeated the Los Angeles Rams in the mega event in Atlanta.
To most Indians, American football is an annual snack binge and little else. But we love to know about celebrities, their love lives and their struggles. Brady, 41, and his supermodel wife from Brazil, 38-year-old Gisele Bündchen, tick all the boxes. (Someone tell Donald Trump, a friend of Brady’s, that Bundchen is an immigrant from South America).
Brady and Bündchen, or Bradychen or Tomele, are Barbie and Ken in flesh and blood, unfairly attractive and very rich. Bündchen , who signed a $25-million contract with a lingerie brand in 2000, has a net worth of over more than $350 million. Her husband is a mere $200 million or thereabouts. The couple have a son and a daughter. Life is never perfect — as we shall see soon — but this comes close.
It wasn’t a chariot ride to the end zone for the two. Bündchen earlier relationship was with another blonde guy whose name might ring a bell: Leonardo DiCaprio. The pressures of her personal and professional life, and the task of adjusting to life in the US, caused her severe anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
Brady had a curve-ball coming his way too. Soon after he started dating Bündchen, he found out that his ex, actress Bridget Moynahan, was pregnant with their son.
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“We met each other under pretty trying circumstances,” Brady once said. “And I think in a lot of ways that really challenging experience brought us together, in a very tight way.”
Bündchen addressed her condition in her book and in interviews. Her anxiety was triggered by a turbulent flight in a six-seater plane and then grew into a fear of small places in general. “It felt like everything in my life was going to kill me,” she said. “First it was the airplanes, then elevators. Then it was tunnels and hotels and modelling studios and cars. Now it was my own apartment. Everything had become a cage, and I was the animal trapped inside, panting for air. I couldn’t see a way out, and I couldn’t stand another day of feeling this way.
“The idea swept over me: Maybe it will be easier if I just jump. It will be all over. I can get out of this,” she wrote. “When I think back on that moment, and that 23-year-old girl, I want to cry. I want to tell her that everything will be all right, that she hasn’t even begun to live her life. But in that moment, the only answer seemed to be to jump.”
Bundchen consulted a doctor and cleaned up her lifestyle. Out went cigarettes, sugar and her daily diet of a bottle of wine and three mocha frappuccinos. In came yoga and meditation.
She also met TB12 and developed a friendly relationship with his ex and their son. Bundchen describes Brady as “someone you can count on. It’s a quality I hadn't experienced in any of my other romantic relationships”.
Someone you can count on. The Patriots would agree.
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