In the last minute on the last Sunday that Tom Brady won his tenth record place in the Super Bowl, there was only one person he wanted to see.
After the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ NFC Championship victory over the Green Bay Packers, the future 43-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback rushed to the stands to receive a hug from his 13-year-old son Jack.
“Can I say hi to my son?” asked Brady, who climbed the barrier to embrace his eldest son – already gaining height over him – and say to him, “I love you, boy.”
Friends of the multimillionaire quarterback told the Post that Jack is Brady’s Mini-Me.
He added one: “He has his father’s long legs and is very talented. I don’t know if he will be a professional footballer, because can you imagine the pressure that comes from being Tom Brady’s son? “
After the post-game moment, Brady talked to Westwood One Radio about Jack: “Oh man, he’s a soldier. A good friend of mine, my friend Tom Wagner, was flying to the game and said, ‘Can Jack go? We will be coming and going on the same day. ‘And Jack had everything inside. He came and watched, sitting in the freezing cold and was so happy in the end …
“He’s a special boy. I love my family. Obviously, I love my team and there’s no better feeling than spending those moments with us all together after a big win. “
Jack’s mother, actress Bridget Moynahan, looked just as excited. “I couldn’t be more proud of @tombrady said he would and he did. Congratulations @buccaneers ”, he posted on Instagram.
There was a time when this camaraderie and support seemed unthinkable. His followers certainly knew that too.
“So incredible to see you two navigate your lives in such a supportive and respectful way! Great praise! It must not be easy to live in the spotlight, ”wrote one. “You are a great model of kindness and forgiveness,” posted another. With almost 30,000 “likes” marked, one person added: “I’m not a fan of Tom Brady because of how he treated you in the past. If you can cheer for him today, I can too. It was a great victory! “
Moynahan, now 49, discovered she was pregnant with John “Jack” Edward in February 2007 – just two months after splitting with Brady, whom she dated for two years. To make things even more dramatic, the athlete had just started dating his now wife, supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
Although Brady helped Jack from day one, that doesn’t mean it was easy for the ex-couple. Moynahan said: “He was there that day and came back later. He certainly wasn’t holding my hand while I pushed. “
Brady told Howard Stern that: “It was very difficult for [Bündchen] to think that she fell in love with this guy, and now his ex-girlfriend is pregnant. And it was very challenging for my son’s mother, because she didn’t imagine it either. “
As for Bündchen, in 2015 she told “CBS This Morning”: “I felt like I didn’t know what to do. It was one of those moments when, like, I run away? Now, eight years later, I couldn’t have asked for a sweeter bonus child. “
She also gained an unexpected relationship with the bonus. “Gisele and Bridget now speak as much as Tom and Bridget, if not more,” said a friend who knows the family.
“Tom and I made the decision to raise a child together and we both found partners who not only supported us in raising that child, but also loved our child as if it were theirs,” Moynahan told People. “I don’t think you can ask for more than that. My son is surrounded by love. “
Brady married Bündchen in 2009 and they had son Benjamin, now 11, and daughter Vivian, 8, who are very close to her stepbrother. Moynahan married investment banker Andrew Frankel in 2015 (Brady and Bündchen were not present), and the couple split their time between Tribeca and Shelter Island.
“I’m happy that she had her happy ending with Andrew. I spent time with them – he is not part of the ‘scene’, he is not a celebrity, he is down to earth. They are a lovely couple, ”a friend Moynahan told The Post.
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There were no formal legal proceedings after Jack’s birth, but all of the custody and financial support agreements that Brady and Moynahan made were made “in private and with respect”
With an estimated fortune of $ 200 million, Brady has more than enough for his son’s education. As reported by Page Six, the athlete and supermodel recently spent more than $ 17 million on a property on Miami’s private Indian Creek island – dubbed the “billionaire’s bunker”.
Brady and Bündchen plan to build something that fulfills their dream of sustainable living, and he has already been seen visiting the boat property with its architect.
“They like things, each bathroom has to be perfect, everything has to be sustainable and organic,” said a friend. “Sustainability is Gisele’s passion.”
Sources said the two are looking for a new home in Los Angeles and still have a home in Tribeca – to be close to Jack.
In 2014, Moynahan spent $ 4.6 million on a loft in Tribeca. Jack attends Saint David’s private school on the Upper East Side, where, according to The Post in 2018, Brady was auctioned off for lunch. Before COVID, he was seen playing football with Jack and friends in the schoolyard.
Gisele and Bridget … talk as much as Tom and Bridget, if not more.
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Sources who know Brady say he is also not a fan of socializing with celebrities. A New York socialite recalled how the owner of the Patriots, Bob Kraft, “took Tom to a very elegant dinner in the city a few years ago, where Elton John was performing, and he looked very strange.”
He feels more comfortable at home, where Bündchen rules the roost.
Brady said that his wife once wrote him a “sincere letter” when he felt dissatisfied with the wedding, saying to Howard Stern: “She felt that I would play football all season and she would take care of the house. And suddenly, when the season was over, I thought, ‘Great, let me get into all my other business activities. Let me get into my football training.
“And she’s sitting there thinking, ‘Well, when are you going to do things for the house? When are you going to take the kids to school and do that? ‘… I had to, like, check myself. Because she’s like, ‘I have goals and dreams, too.’ “
Just like your children. While Jack loves sports, his youngest son, Ben, loves art and movies, friends say.
“They are going to be themselves, not who you want them to be,” Brady told Men’s Health. “… [Jack] he wants to try hard and never wants to disappoint his father. It was me. I woke up early on weekends to do things with my dad. That’s why I didn’t have a lot of fun. “
Preparing for retirement, Brady co-founded his own company, TB12, in 2013 with his trainer Alex Guerrero, with two performance facilities in Boston and one in Tampa and a best-selling nutrition and fitness book, “The TB12 Method “. He is now developing a complete health and wellness brand. The duo has plans to open gyms across the country, the Post was told, but those were delayed because of the pandemic.
On February 7, the Buccaneers will play the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl 2021 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida – the Bucs’ first time in the league since 2002. Whether Brady’s group will be available, it remains to be seen at pandemic. Normally, the family would be there.
“Obviously there were challenges when Gisele just met Tom, but Jack brought his family together and it’s about family and nothing else matters, they make it work because of their love for Jack and the kids,” said the source who knows the family. “They are a true, modern family.”