Gisele Bündchen is leaving the modeling industry because she is expecting her third child.
The Brazilian supermodel, 44, is taking “a step back from work to focus on her pregnancy” with her boyfriend Joaquim Valente, 37, sources said TMZ Thursday.
Bündchen was working steadily until earlier this month on projects for fashion campaigns and magazines, the outlet reported, having last appeared on the runway in 2015.
Bündchen, who was spotted working out at a Florida gym on Tuesday, will pause modeling industry projects until she feels completely safe to start working again, sources told the outlet.
Bündchen and her ex-husband Tom Brady, 47, share two children: Benjamin, 16, and Vivian, 11. Brady is also the father of a son, John Edward Thomas Moynahan, 17, with actress Bridget Moynahan, 53.
Gisele Bündchen, 44, is leaving the modeling industry because she is expecting her third child. Photographed in Geneva in April.
Bündchen and Brady divorced in 2022 after a 13-year marriage and share custody of their children.
Bündchen told Brady she was pregnant before going public with the news, sources told TMZ, estimating she is five to six months pregnant.
Brady was reportedly “stunned” to hear the news, a source said. Page six Wednesday, as it “just wasn’t something that was on their radar.”
“So when Gisele broke the news to him he was stunned, to say the least…Tom knew things were serious between Gisele and Joaquin, but he never imagined they would have a child together.”
According to the outlet, Bündchen and Valente postpone the discovery of the baby’s sex until birth.
Inside sources told the outlet earlier this month that Bündchen had been invited to appear at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in New York City, but declined the offer.
Bündchen has a history with the lingerie brand, having been a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 1999 to 2006. (The October 15 show saw runway cameos from Tyra Banks, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid and Ashley Graham.) .
An informant said People Earlier this week, ‘Gisele and Joaquim are happy for this new chapter in their lives and look forward to creating a peaceful and loving environment for the entire family.’
The Brazilian supermodel is taking “a step back from her work to focus on her pregnancy” with her boyfriend Joaquim Valente, sources told TMZ on Thursday. Photographed in March in New York.
Bündchen, photographed in New York in March, and Valente postpone finding out the baby’s sex until birth.
Bündchen last appeared on the runway on April 15, 2015 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Bündchen and Valente, a professional Jiu-Jitsu instructor, have been seeing each other since June 2023, a source told the outlet.
They were initially seen together in November 2022 during a trip to the Costa Rican coastal area of the Puntarenas Province.
Bündchen “is safe and happy, and is so busy with her life that she doesn’t have time to think about the negative things,” a source told the outlet in June.
Bündchen’s most recent stint as a runway model occurred on April 15, 2015 at Candido Portinari Park in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with Brady in attendance.
Bündchen, whose retirement from the runway came after a year in which Forbes ranked her as the world’s highest-earning model, had walked for brands including Chanel, Carolina Herrera and Pantene at the time.
“Today, after 20 years in the industry, it is a privilege to do my last fashion show by choice and at the same time continue to work in other facets of the business,” Bündchen said on Instagram at the time. “I am grateful that at 14 years old I was given the opportunity to begin this journey.”
