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‘There is easier days than others’: Gisele Bündchen on co-parenting with ex-Tom Brady

“I think it's natural that it has different rules and then kids just adapt.”

This combination of photos shows Gisele Bündchen modeling the Colcci Summer collection at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 15, 2015, left, and Tom Brady, then with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, before an NFL game against the New Orleans Saints, on Sept. 18, 2021, in New Orleans. Brady and Bündchen divorced last year.

By Dialynn Dwyer

March 6, 2024

Gisele Bündchen is sharing her feelings about co-parenting and her divorce from Tom Brady in a new interview slated to premiere Thursday on Hulu.

In a teaser for the new special, “IMPACT x Nightline: Gisele Bündchen: Climbing the Mountain,” Bündchen talks with ABC’s Robin Roberts about “love, life, and co-parenting.”

When Roberts asks in the clip how the supermodel is doing after bringing up the end of her marriage to Brady, Bündchen appears to tear up, turning away and asking for a moment.

In another clip, Roberts asks Bündchen about how co-parenting has been since the split from the former Patriots quarterback.

“There is easier days than others,” Bündchen responds. “But I think it’s amazing that the kids, they’re super smart, children. They know what they can get away with. So I think it’s natural that it has different rules and then kids just adapt. They’re going to try to do what they want, and I can only control what I do.

“And I think for me, now is really about the balance,” she continued. Now we have, you know, Tom has time with them, and I have time with them, which I think is amazing because they get to really experience, again, more enriching for their lives, two different worlds. And they get to learn from two different worlds, and I think that’s wonderful for them, I think.”

Bündchen has previously described the divorce from Brady as being “very tough” for the family. She told Vanity Fair last year that she and Brady “wanted different things.” The couple was married for 13 years.

“Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart,” Bündchen said. “When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together. As time goes by, we realize that we just wanted different things, and now we have a choice to make.

“That doesn’t mean you don’t love the person. It just means that in order for you to be authentic and truly live the life that you want to live, you have to have somebody who can meet you in the middle, right?” Bündchen continued. “It’s a dance. It’s a balance.”