A-list celebrities are just like the rest of us. Sometimes, their “likes” on social media reveal more about their personal lives than anything they would say publicly.
That seems to be the case with Gisele Bundchen, who’s been silent since news broke last week that she and Tom Brady have retained divorce lawyers. But on Instagram Wednesday, she “liked” a post about the problem with unreliable partners.
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“You can’t be in a committed relationship with someone who is inconsistent with you,” the post reads. “Read that again.”
We did, and it reads like a shot at Brady, whose vacillation over his football future is reportedly at the crux of the couple’s reported impasse.
Last Friday, Page Six reported that Gisele consulted a divorce attorney in 2015 during a “secret split” with Brady. The source said that Brady and Gisele have split “a few times” over the course of their 13-year marriage.
“Tom and Gisele have separated before,” said a source. “Every couple of years they have a big fight and she has left Tom before, but she always came back.”
Sources told TMZ that Brady’s prolonged NFL career has always been at the center of the couple’s biggest fights.
They last had a major blowout two years ago, according to Page Six.
Brady and Gisele have publicly hinted about their disagreements over his obsession with football. Back in 2017, Gisele said on CBS that Brady has a “history of concussions.”
In recent years, Brady has dedicated entire episodes of his docuseries, “Tom vs. Time” and “Man in the Arena,” to the push-and-pull he feels between football and family.
In a 2020 interview with Howard Stern, Brady admitted that Gisele wasn’t happy with his football-life balance.
“There was a couple years ago, she didn't feel like I was doing my part for the family," he said. "She felt like I would play football all season, and she would take care of the house. And then all of the sudden, a season would end, and I'd be like, 'Great, let me get into all my other business activities. Let me get into my football training.' And she's sitting there going, 'Well, when are you going to do things for the house? When are you going to take kids to school and do that?' That was a big part of our marriage that I had to check myself. Because she's like, 'I have goals and dreams, too ... You better start taking care of things at the house.”
Brady cited family as the primary reason for his retirement, only to return 40 days later.
Maybe it was the final straw.