It’s official: Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have filed for divorce.
The soccer star and his supermodel spouse are calling it quits after 13 years of marriage, submitting their divorce papers in Florida on Friday morning.
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Brady and Bündchen posted statements on Instagram late Friday morning, every saying they’d “amicably” reached the choice.
“In latest days, my spouse and I finalized our divorce from each other after 13 years of marriage,” Brady wrote. “We arrived at this resolution amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent collectively.”
“I really feel blessed for the time we had collectively and solely want the most effective for Tom at all times,” wrote Bündchen.
Their cut up comes after months of rumours that their relationship has been on rocky floor. It’s been broadly reported that Bündchen, 42, is sad with Brady’s resolution to return to skilled soccer, regardless of saying his retirement earlier this 12 months.
In March, Brady introduced that he was coming out of retirement to play a twenty third season within the NFL.
The seven-time Tremendous Bowl champion introduced his resolution on Twitter and Instagram, saying he has “unfinished enterprise.”
“These previous two months I’ve realized my place remains to be on the sphere and never within the stands,” Brady wrote. “That point will come. However it’s not now. I really like my teammates, and I really like my supportive household. They make all of it doable. I’m coming again for my twenty third season in Tampa.”
The announcement got here simply 40 days after Brady mentioned he was hanging up his football cleats for good, citing his need to spend extra time together with his spouse and youngsters.
Final month, a supply advised Folks the quarterback is “damage” concerning the newest developments in his marriage.
“She is the one steering the divorce,” the insider mentioned. “She is taking part in offence and he’s taking part in defence. He desires to guard himself, defend his pursuits, however he’s solely beginning to go the authorized route in his defence from her. He doesn’t need this to be ugly, he doesn’t wish to struggle. If the divorce is going on — and it looks like it’s — he desires it to go as easily as doable.”
The couple share two youngsters — son Benjamin, 12, and daughter Vivian Lake, 9, together with Brady’s son John Edward, 15, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.
It’s been reported that the couple has been residing aside for at the least two months.
Brady and Bündchen started courting in 2006 and tied the knot in 2009.
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