For the duration of their marriage, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen were one of the most famous celebrity couples in the world. And although they are now divorced, they have several key rules upon which they agree when it comes to co-parenting their children.
Brady and Bundchen first started dating in 2006. At the time, he was already a Super Bowl-winning quarterback in the NFL and she was an enormously successful supermodel.
They married in 2009 and had two children together – a son born in 2009 and a daughter born in 2012. Bundchen also became stepmother to Brady's first son from a previous relationship.
In October 2022, Brady and Bundchen divorced and the Brazilian has remarried and is expecting another baby. But while their 13-year union has ended, Brady and Bundchen have agreed on seven rules that their children must follow, as compiled by yourtango.com.
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1 – They won't allow them to be spoilt by wealth
"I look at my life, and my family, and it's so fast," Brady said in an interview on the Drive with Jim Farley podcast in 2022, discussing his desire for his kids to appreciate what they have. "We have people that clean for us. We have people that make our food. We have people that drive us to the airport if we need that. You know, we get off a plane, there [are] people waiting there for us, and we get ushered in."
2 – They must give back to their community
In October 2022, Brady and his two youngest children were seen handing out meals to residents of a mobile home park in Florida.
"Tom wanted to teach his kids about the importance of community service,” a source told the Page Six.
3 – They need to be relatively active
"We are all pretty active at our home. We do some form of physical exercise every day; it all depends where we are," Bundchen told PEOPLE.
4 – Their children must eat homegrown foods
“We all love it," Bundchen told PEOPLE in 2017, revealing she and her family eat a plant-based diet. "It’s not only good for our health and makes us feel good, but it is also good for the planet!"
5 – They don't push playing football on their son
“The reality is that Benny just likes different things," Brady told Men's Health in 2019. "And it’s great because now I just have to go do what he wants to do. When we do that, we have the best time. He’s like, ‘OMG, Dad, you’re so funny.’ He loves joking, and I joke back.”
6 – They make sure to encourage their children's dreams
"What I'd wish for my children is to find something that they really love to do like I have, but I think I have taken it to an extreme too,” Brady said in his Man in the Arena documentary. “You know, I hope they don't take things as far as I've taken them. I want them to experience great success in whatever they do, but there's a torment about me that I don't wish upon them."
7 – The children will have "full access" to both parents following the divorce
"They can see whichever parent they want," a source told PEOPLE. "They've got a schedule, but neither of them would prevent their kids from seeing the other parent," the source claimed. "That's not who either of them are. The kids adore them both, and they'll have full access to both, whenever they want. They're not vindictive like that."
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