The feeding frenzy was part parasocial projection, part gender discourse: If “Gisele and Tom” can’t make it, what about the rest of us? Can two alphas at the apex of their careers coexist in a marriage? Must the female partner in a cishet partnership-no matter how successful she is-always assume the lion’s share of childcare? Or maybe it was schadenfreude.Īround two and a half months have passed since the announcement by the time she picks me up at my hotel in Costa Rica on an ATV in a taupe sports bra, matching short-shorts, and Rainbow flip-flops. And so theirs was a split of Jolie-Pittian, and Pitt-Anistonian, proportions. Their glittering union seemed prom-perfect: swanning through the Met Gala 11 times (once, famously, in coordinating Versace) embracing amid the hoopla of Brady’s Super Bowl wins kissing at sunset in this very house, where they held their second wedding in 2009, following a Catholic ceremony in Santa Monica, after which Brady grilled steaks for dinner. By the time Brady re-retired in February, the pair had consciously uncoupled. The supercouple finalized their divorce last October after a slow burn of headlines that intermixed the fate of their marriage with that of his career: There was Brady’s long-anticipated retirement in February 2022, of which Bündchen had seemed in favor his un-retirement 40 days later his 11-day absence from Tampa Bay Buccaneers training camp to address “personal” things the hiring of attorneys and, after a garish but brief divorce watch, the dropping of the other shoe: nearly identical statements vowing to be amicable co-parents and professing gratitude for their time together. Her stature might be intimidating if she didn’t also possess a boundless golden retriever–like energy.Īs most sentient beings know, Bündchen is emerging from a long and productive union to once-again former NFL quarterback Tom Brady-god or pariah, you pick. She wears a chestnut brown bandeau bikini top and high-waisted jean cutoffs-she dons only crop tops or bikinis while I’m there, because shirts and surnames are superfluous when you’re Gisele.

Her makeup-free skin is a preternatural Nars Laguna bronze.

The godmother of the beach wave’s hair flows in its natural state. Let’s get it over with: Off duty, 42-year-old Bündchen is giving mythic goddess.

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