Tom Brady’s biographer has called a widely circulated story surrounding Tom Brady’s split from Bridget Moynahan “fiction.”
Lars Anderson, author of “Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness,” delves into the subject of the timing of the NFL great’s split with actress and subsequent romance with model Gisele Bündchen in the book — and he told Us Weekly in comments published Tuesday that after doing “the math,” the timeline “barely works out in Tom’s favor.”
The quarterback, now 49, and Moynahan, 55, separated in December 2006 after nearly three years of dating.
By the time the “Sex and the City” actress informed the athlete that she was pregnant with his child in February 2007, Brady was also dating the Victoria’s Secret model – and had been for two months.
Brady was criticized at the time for apparently breaking up with the pregnant actress over a high-profile romance with Bündchen.
However, that simply wasn’t the case, Anderson writes in an excerpt obtained by Page Six.
Brady had her first date with Bündchen in December 2006 — and a certified obstetric nurse told the author that Moynahan’s conception date would have been late November 2006, two weeks before her first date with the Brazilian bombshell.
Moynahan, Anderson writes, had been heartbroken by their breakup over the holidays — and according to the author, two months into Brady’s romance with Bündchen, he received a call from the “Coyote Ugly” actress while he was vacationing in Paris with the model.
The news that Moynahan was three months pregnant ignited “a global media storm,” Anderson writes, “that transformed their private dilemma into a public spectacle.”
According to the book, Bündchen “didn’t know what to do with the news” and wondered if she should encourage her new boyfriend to start a family with his former girlfriend.
Ultimately, Anderson writes, “the world’s most famous model chose to stay with Brady when he was about to become the father of another woman’s child.”
Representatives for Brady and Bündchen did not return to Page Six for comment on Anderson’s biography, which is available today. A representative for Moynahan did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Moynahan then 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.
Moynahan, Brady and Bündchen appeared to have had an amicable co-parenting relationship over the years – but Brady and Bündchen’s relationship ultimately came to a screeching halt in 2022 after Brady announced his retirement from football, only to return to the sport for one more season before retiring in 2023 “for good.”
The former couple divorced that year after 13 years of marriage, with sources telling Anderson in the biography that Brady lost nearly 20 pounds during the drama, according to an excerpt originally obtained by the Daily Mail.
The book also claims that Bündchen and Brady tried to save the marriage, with the model writing a letter to the football star asking for more time, attention and support for his career in the midst of his own.
Brady, meanwhile, reportedly tried to save the marriage with a final trip to the Bahamas with Bündchen – for which he left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 2022 training camp.
Despite the 11-day trip, Bündchen reportedly told a devastated Brady, “We’re not compatible” before ending the marriage.
“And just like that, she was done,” a source says in the book.
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