Tom Brady’s Sweet Mother’s Day Tribute to Gisele and Bridget

Tom Brady kept his Mother’s Day tradition alive on Sunday — and fans are here for it. The retired seven-time Super Bowl champion took to his Instagram Stories to honor the mothers in his life, including both of his exes, Gisele Bündchen and Bridget Moynahan, in a gesture that’s become one of the more quietly touching things he does each year.

Brady opened with a tribute to his mom, Galynn, sharing a photo of her cradling a sleeping Vivian — his 13-year-old daughter with Bündchen — on the couch. “Happy Mother’s Day to the best mom in the world,” he wrote. “This picture perfectly sums up who you are Mom.”

Then came the posts that caught everyone’s attention. First, a throwback image of Bündchen, 45, kissing her stepson Jack, 18, while Moynahan, 55, stands smiling beside them. “Happy Mother’s Day,” Brady wrote, with three red heart emojis. In a second photo, Bündchen is seen relaxed in bed, cuddled up with all three of Brady’s kids — Jack, and her and Brady’s two children, Benjamin, 16, and Vivian. “Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing mothers in this world,” he added.

A Blended Family That Works

Brady and Moynahan dated from 2004 to 2006. By the time she discovered she was pregnant with Jack, the relationship had already ended — and Brady had begun dating Bündchen. Jack arrived in 2007, and Brady and Bündchen married in 2009, welcoming Benjamin and Vivian before their divorce was finalized in 2022.

What could easily have been a complicated dynamic has, at least publicly, been something different. Brady, Bündchen, and Moynahan have all spoken over the years about keeping things positive for the sake of the kids — and these annual Mother’s Day posts feel like the most visible proof of that.

Last year, Brady called both women “incredible moms” he is “lucky” to know, and praised them as “kind, caring, compassionate and POWERFUL moms,” adding, “None of this would be possible without your love.” This year’s posts carry the same warmth, even if the words are simpler.

Bündchen, for her part, has spoken candidly about the realities of co-parenting. She told Harper’s Bazaar that she and Brady have “different ways” of raising their kids, which sometimes leads to “pushback” from the teenagers. It’s a refreshingly honest note amid what could otherwise look like a perfectly curated blended-family image.

Bündchen has since moved on and married her former Jiu-Jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente, with whom she welcomed a baby boy in early 2025. She addressed speculation that their relationship began before her divorce from Brady in a 2024 interview with The New York Times. “This is something that happens to a lot of women who get blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as being unfaithful,” she said. “They have to deal with their communities. They have to deal with their family. Of course, for me, it just happens to be a little bit amplified.”

Brady on Family, Post-Football

Since retiring from the NFL in February 2023, Brady has been open about the emotional weight of his final season. “I was going through a personal family issue,” he said of the 2022-2023 season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “It was a challenge, and it just took a lot out of me in terms of my ability to play.”

That chapter behind him, Brady has leaned into fatherhood in a way he’s described as intentional. Back in August, inspired by Jack turning 18, he wrote in his newsletter about what the milestone made him reflect on. “When people hit milestone anniversaries and birthdays, like Jack just did, it’s natural to take a step back and reflect on how far they’ve come,” he wrote. “Baked into those moments of reflection is a really important question that I think a lot of people sometimes forget to ask: Who helped them along the way?”

He went on: “Nobody is perfect, everyone has room to grow and improve — this is especially true as parents — but seeing Jack with his friends felt like, hey, we got this one right. My goal now, in this phase of life, is to be equally good company to Jack and Benny and Vivian.”

For a man who spent 23 seasons being defined by championships and records, it’s a quieter kind of legacy he seems to be building now — one post, one holiday, one family photo at a time.