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Gisele Bundchen in March 2024.
(James Devaney/GC Images)Pregnant Gisele Bundchen Spent Christmas in Costa Rica with friend Joaquim Valente.
The supermodel, 44, showed off her baby bump in a black bikini during a beach day on December 24, according to photos published by the Daily mail on Sunday, December 29. A shirtless Valente, 37, stood next to her in surfing swim trunks.
Bundchen and Valente started dating in the summer of 2023 and now expecting their first child together. (Bündchen also shares son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 12, with ex-husband Tom Brady. She is the stepmother of Brady’s son Jack, 17, who he shares with his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.)
‘They are deep committed to each otherbut there are no wedding plans at the moment,” the source said revealed exclusively to We weekly in November, noting at the time that Bündchen and her new boyfriend were “happy with the pregnancy” and not “talking about marriage.”
Backgrid/MEGA Gisele Bündchen and Joaquim Valente’s relationship started out amicably before turning romantic. Bündchen said she first came into contact with the jiu-jitsu instructor after she and Tom Brady’s son, Benjamin, enrolled at Valente’s martial arts academy in Miami. (Brady and Bündchen also share daughter Vivian.) “It’s actually thanks to my son that I met Joaquim,” […]
The insider noted: “They are in love and happy. But right now, marriage is not at the top of their to-do list.”
News of the pregnancy broke on October 28, and days later in Bündchen showed off her growing belly while stepping out in Miami in a little black dress.
Two years ago, Bündchen and Brady, 47, divorced after more than thirteen years of marriage. A source said Us in November that the retired NFL quarterback was at peace with her decision to expand her family — and move on with a new man.
“He wants to see her happy,” the source said of Brady, noting that he and Bündchen remain amicable after they their split in October 2022. “They maintain a co-parenting relationship focused solely on the well-being of their children.”
Gisele Bündchen shows off her baby bump – and steps out in Miami – after news broke that she is pregnant and expecting her first child with boyfriend Joaquim Valente. Bündchen, 44, was seen wearing a little black dress that showed off her growing belly while running errands on Thursday, October 31, according to photos obtained by […]
In October, an insider said Us that Brady was one of the first to hear about Bündchen’s pregnancy.
“When Gisele told the kids about her pregnancy, she made sure Tom informed them as well,” says an insider close to Brady. shared at the time. “This happened a few months ago. She wanted to show him that courtesy and knew the kids would tell him anyway.
According to the source, Valente “has developed a positive relationship with [Gisele’s] children” and “participated in family activities and support [Benjamin and Vivian’s] interests.”
Meanwhile, the children are looking forward to the arrival of their younger sibling, the insider added.
On October 29, a day after news broke that Gisele Bündchen is pregnant with her third child — her first with boyfriend of one year Joaquim Valente — the supermodel debuted her baby bump outside a workout class in Miami. Dressed in black leggings, a black cap and a button-up shirt, Bündchen was seen leaving […]
Bündchen and Valente, who are both from Brazil, met when she enrolled son Benjamin at Valente’s martial arts academy in Miami. She started training with him soon after.
“I feel stronger, more confident, and more powerful since I started practicing self-defense,” she wrote in a February 2022 Instagram post with Valente, thanking him and his brothers for “being great teachers and for making it so much fun training’.
When her divorce from Brady “was finalized, they moved in together and have been joined at the hip ever since,” a divorce source said Us earlier this year.