Gisele Bündchen is celebrating a milestone for her husband, Joaquim Valente, at the same time as her ex, Tom Brady, is allegedly embroiled in drama with two Victoria’s Secret models.
“Today a great man was born, @joaquimvalente,” Bündchen, 46, wrote to Valente via Instagram alongside a photo of the pair cosying up in honor of his 39th birthday on Saturday, November 7. “How lucky I am. I love you so much!”
The model tied the knot with the self-defense instructor in December 2025 after Us confirmed they’d been granted a marriage license in Miami days earlier. The couple started dating in 2023 and welcomed a baby boy in February 2025.
Bündchen largely shied away from discussing her marriage to Valente in public, though she has shut down speculation she started dating the jiu jitsu instructor before her split from Brady in 2022.
Gisele Bündchen’s birthday post for Joaquim Valente. Courtesy Instagram / Gisele Bündchen
“That is a lie. This is something that happens to a lot of women who get blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as being unfaithful,” she told the New York Times in March 2024. “They have to deal with their communities. They have to deal with their family. Of course for me, it just happens to be a little bit amplified.”
Brady and Bündchen share two children: son Benjamin, 16, and daughter Vivian, 13. (Brady also welcomed son Jack, 19, with his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan in August 2007.)
Meanwhile, the NFL alum has been caught up in rumors about his apparent connection to Victoria’s Secret models Candice Swanepoel and Joan Smalls in recent weeks.
In October, Us exclusively reported that Brady and Swanepoel, 38, had been seeing each other “for a while” but had kept their relationship under the radar for months.
Us learned days later that Swanepoel’s longtime friend Smalls, 38, and Brady previously had a casual arrangement “on and off for about a year between 2023 and 2024.”
Before Gisele Bündchen and Joaquim Valente began their romance, the duo were just friends first. “Joaquim was there for Gisele through her divorce, as a friend, and they turned romantic this past summer,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. Bündchen, 43, and Valente share “similar lifestyles” and are both “dedicated to fitness and nutrition,” the […]
A source revealed that Smalls was hurt by Brady’s new relationship, describing Swanepoel’s decision to date the athlete as the “ultimate breaking of girl code.”
“It wasn’t even necessarily about Tom, but more about the fact that Candice was someone she considered such a close friend,” an insider told Us in October. “Joan had openly talked to Candice about Tom and had confided in Candice about the relationship.”
Swanepoel and Smalls ultimately both walked the runway at a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 15, though they did not pose together for the cameras.
Speculation about a rift only intensified when Smalls seemingly addressed the drama in a reply to Just Jared’s news coverage of Brady and Swanepoel’s romance.
“Two words: SUMMER HOUSE ! That’ll explain everything,” Smalls wrote in an apparent reference to Amanda Batula, West Wilson and Ciara Miller‘s love triangle on the Bravo show.
Smalls allegedly wrote to a commenter that she is “not friends with backstabbers” and complained that there is “no girl code with some people” in another since-deleted post.
Gisele Bündchen has so much love for her husband, Joaquim Valente, on Father’s Day 2026. “Happy Father’s Day @joaquimvalente! Thank you for leading by example, and for the values you embody, love, humility, integrity, discipline, kindness and consistency,” Bündchen, 45, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, June 21, alongside rare family photos of the couple and […]
Swanepoel officially broke her silence about an alleged rift with Smalls in an October 28 statement to Us through her spokesperson.
“Candice has always been exceptionally private about her personal life, with her focus remaining on raising her children,” her rep told Us at the time. “She and Joan share a longstanding history and a friendship that Candice will always respect.”
Many interpreted Brady’s own Thursday, November 5, Instagram post as a reaction to headlines about his love life, as he posted, “You are not responsible for correcting every false version of you that exists in someone else’s heart.”
