New Tom Brady book reveals how ex Bridget Moynahan’s shock pregnancy left his relationship with Gisele Bundchen on a knife edge
The author behind Tom Brady’s biography has labeled a narrative surrounding the former quarterback’s split from ex Bridget Moynahan.
Lars Anderson, the man who wrote ‘Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness,’ dove into the seven-time Super Bowl champion’s split from the actress and his subsequent romance and marriage to supermodel Gisele Bundchen.
The Daily Mail exclusively published the first extract of the book last week.
Speaking to Us Weekly on Tuesday, Anderson says that doing ‘the math’ reveals that the timeline ‘barely works in Tom’s favor.’
Brady, now 49, and Moynahan, now 55, dated for nearly three years before splitting in December 2006.
Three months later, in February 2007, Brady was informed that Moynahan was pregnant with his child. By that time, the quarterback had been dating Bundchen for two months.
At the time, Brady was criticized for seemingly breaking up with the actress to pursue Bundchen.
Tom Brady’s biographer says the timeline of his split from Bridget Moynahan is unfair to him
Brady split with Moynahan in late 2006, just a few months before she told him of her pregnancy
By the time she delivered the news, Brady was already dating his future wife, Gisele Bundchen
As Anderson wrote in the book, Brady’s first date with Bundchen was in December 2006. An obstetrics nurse told the writer that Moynahan’s date of conception would have been in late November of that same year, just two weeks before his first date with the Brazilian supermodel.
Moynahan was left ‘heartbroken’ over the split, according to the author, with the actress calling Brady that February while he was vacationing in Paris with Bundchen to inform him of her pregnancy.
The ensuing coverage led to a ‘global media firestorm,’ Anderson writes, ‘that turned their private dilemma into a public spectacle.
Anderson also revealed that Bundchen ‘didn’t know what to do with the news’ and even wondered if she should encourage Brady to raise a family with his ex.
In the end, Anderson pens, ‘the most famous supermodel in the world chose to stay with Brady as he was about to become the father to another woman’s child.’
Moynahan welcomed a son – Jack, now 19 – in August of 2007. Brady and Bundchen were married in 2009 in two ceremonies – one in Los Angeles and the other in Costa Rica.
The couple had two children together – son Benjamin, now 16, and daughter Vivian, now 13 – before they ended their relationship in 2022.
That end came after Brady reversed course on his retirement from football to play one final season, eventually retiring in 2023 ‘for good.’
PART ONE: Every ugly detail of Tom and Gisele’s marriage… the secret letter stashed in a drawer… and her savage last three words
PART TWO: Why Tom Brady’s college teammates were convinced he was gay… until one uninhibited night proved the truth: Secrets from his years before fame – and existential crisis that drove him to the brink
