Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who is also the wife of NFL star Tom Brady, is set to end her 13-year-long marriage with the star quarterback, after reports surfaced on September 1 that the two had a series of fights.

It was reported on Page Six – the New York Post’s gossip page, that Brady and Bundchen have both hired divorce lawyers to initiate the process for their divorce. Page Six had said that Bundchen had left the couple’s Florida home after the fights and travelled to Costa Rica.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback’s decision to come out of retirement and play again for his former team was reportedly the reason behind the fights, according to Page Six. 

Bundchen, who married Brady on February 26, 2009, is known widely as a former Victoria’s Secret Angel. She is also one of the highest-paid models in the world for the last two decades. Bundchen became the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry in 2007 and was featured in Forbes magazine’s Most Powerful Woman in the World list in the 89th spot in 2014.

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Who is Gisele Bundchen?

Gisele Bundchen was born on July 20, 1980, in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil to Vania and Valdir Bundchen. She is the sixth generation of her German-Brazilian family, whose grandfather, Walter, was a former mayor of Horizontina.

Gisele has five sisters — Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and fraternal twin Patricia. Despite her German heritage and learning the language in school, she does not speak it any longer. However, she is fluent in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish and French.

She wanted to become a volleyball player when she was growing up. However, her mother enrolled Gisele and her sisters in a modelling academy, following which they visited Curitiba, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro when she was spotted by Elite Model Management at a shopping mall. 

She became the runner-up in a national competition and moved to Sao Paulo in 1995 to pursue a modelling career. The next year, she made her debut at the New York Fashion Week.

Gisele dated popular Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio between 2000-05 but broke up later. After that, she began dating star NFL quarterback Tom Brady after being introduced to him through a mutual friend. They married on February 26, 2009, followed by a second marriage in April of the same year in Costa Rica.

The couple has two children, a son and a daughter. Gisele is also the stepmother of Brady’s first son, who was born in 2009.

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The supermodel has made appearances in several movies and television shows over the years. She made her film debut in Tim Story’s 2004 film Taxi. She has since acted in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Coração Vagabundo (2008), Mademoiselle C (2013), Tom vs Time (2018) and Kiss The Ground (2020).

Apart from films and television shows, Gisele has also been part of several music videos. The model has also won numerous awards in her career, some of which are the Phytoervas Fashion Award, Vogue Fashion Award, Green Carpet Fashion Award and the International Green Award.