Tom Brady’s biographer has called the prevalent narrative of Tom Brady’s split from Bridget Moynahan “fiction.”
Lars Anderson, author of “Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness,” discusses in the book the timing of the NFL great’s split from the player and his subsequent romance with supermodel Gisele Bündchen, and in a commentary published Tuesday, told Us Weekly that after doing the “math,” the timeline “didn’t quite work in Tom’s favor.”
The point guard, now 49, and Moynahan, 55, parted ways in December 2006 after nearly three years together.
Brady was also in a relationship with the Victoria’s Secret supermodel when the “Sex and the City” actress informed the athlete she was pregnant with his child in February 2007, and the relationship had been going on for two months.
Brady was criticized at the time for seemingly leaving the pregnant actress to embark on an extremely high-profile romance with Bündchen.
But that’s not the case, Anderson writes in a quote obtained by Page Six.
Brady went on his first date with Bündchen in December 2006, and a certified OB/GYN told the author that Moynahan’s due date would be in late November 2006, two weeks before her bombshell first date in Brazil.
Anderson writes that Moynahan was “heartbroken” over the interruption of the holiday season — and according to the author, two months into Brady’s romance with Bündchen, he received a call from the “Coyote Ugly” actress while vacationing with the model in Paris.
The news that Moynahan was three months pregnant “ignited a global media storm,” Anderson writes, “which turned their private dilemma into a public spectacle.”
According to the book, Bündchen “didn’t know what to do with this news” and wondered whether she should encourage her new boyfriend to start a family with his ex-girlfriend.
After all, Anderson writes, “The world’s most famous supermodel chose to stay with Brady when he was about to father another woman’s child.”
Reps for Brady and Bündchen did not return to Page Six for comment on Anderson’s biopic, which hits shelves today. A representative for Moynahan did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Moynahan welcomed the couple’s only child, Jack Moynahan, now 19, in August 2007, while Brady and Bündchen married in 2009 in separate ceremonies in Los Angeles and Costa Rica.
The former couple welcomed son Benjamin Rein Brady, now 16, in December 2009, and daughter Vivian Lake Brady, now 13, in December 2012.
Brady and Bündchen appeared to have a friendly co-parenting relationship over the years — but Brady and Bündchen’s relationship came to a grinding halt in 2022 after Brady announced his retirement from football and returned to the sport for one more season before his “full” retirement in 2023, Moynahan said.
The former couple divorced that year after 13 years of marriage; Sources told Anderson in the biography that Brady lost nearly 20 pounds as the drama continued; according to a quote originally obtained by the Daily Mail.
The book also claims that both Bündchen and Brady made attempts to save the marriage, with the model writing a letter to the football star begging for more time, attention and support between her own careers.
Brady, meanwhile, was said to be trying to save his marriage with a last-ditch trip to the Bahamas with Bündchen; He left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 2022 training camp to make that happen.
Despite the 11-day trip, Bündchen was said to have declared to a devastated Brady: “We’re not compatible” before ending their marriage.
“And just like that, he was done,” the insider says in the book.