Gisele Bündchen Opens Up About Self Care After Her Divorce From Tom

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 19, 2025, 11:55 PM

gisele bündchen opens up about self care after her divorce from tom

In a wide-ranging new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Gisele Bündchen gives a sweeping look at her life after divorce. Bündchen’s new cookbook, Nourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body & Feed Your Soul, offers tips and recipes for busy families looking to add more nutrition to their weekday meals in quick, simple ways. It’s something Bundchen herself often deals with now that she’s caring for her two children—Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 11—by herself when she has them. She splits custody with ex-husband Tom Brady, whom she divorced in 2022 after 13 years of marriage. During the interview, she effortlessly makes an acai bowl, homemade granola, and almond cookies. Bündchen, who says her daily routine starts at 5 a.m.

by walking her dogs before a morning meditation, talks about the importance of instilling discipline, especially as a part-time single mom. "The way you make your room, the way you organize and make your bed is the way you’re going to do your life. If you’re not learning here and now, then when and with who? Sometimes, I get pushback, especially because now they’re in two different homes and there are two different ways. But I feel like I owe it to my kids, because of what my mom taught me,” she explains. Her devotion to wellness came after years of living on caffeine, pizza, wine, and cigarettes as a young model, which she says sometimes led to panic attacks.

Cutting most vices out of her diet and prioritizing getting enough sleep made a significant difference. These days, she’s so busy at home that when she does take a modeling job, it feels like a vacation. “You get to see the people you’ve known for 20-something years and haven’t seen in 10,” says Bündchen. “You’re like, ‘Oh my God, you have a daughter now?’” Beth is a New York-based freelance writer. In addition to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, she contributes to editorial outlets including Women's Health and Reader's Digest.

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Nearly one year after her divorce from Tom Brady, the supermodel, 43, opens up (in detail) about homeschooling her kids for three years, ditching alcohol and how meditation helps her through difficult times There’s a viral TikTok video that depicts a young Gisele Bündchen walking the runway of the Givenchy Spring/Summer collection show in 2000. The heel breaks clear off her shoe, but the supermodel keeps walking so confidently, nobody even notices. Well, she noticed. “It was crazy. The heel actually went in,” Bündchen recalls, sitting down with PEOPLE last Friday in N.Y.C following a panel for her new Gaia Herbs partnership.

“So you’ve got to put all your weight on the front of your foot. And then, you have cramps and it hurts a lot, but you have to just do what you’ve got to do. I'm not going to crumble in front of all those people. There was no option of crumbling there. You’ve just got to pretend like nothing happened and hope that no one noticed. And I think that's a great metaphor for life, because whenever the curve balls get thrown at you, do you crumble or do you rise?

It's a choice, right? You’ve got to rise.” She certainly has. After overcoming a struggle with crippling panic attacks, anxiety and depression in her 20s, the supermodel, now 43, went through several years of tumult again in the past few years. Below, she opens up exclusively to PEOPLE about how she navigated difficult times, centered herself and showed up even stronger for her family. With the pandemic, Bündchen transitioned to homeschooling her son Ben, 13, and daughter Vivian, 10, with ex-husband, retired football icon Tom Brady. She also dealt with uprooting the family to move to Tampa Bay, Fla., for Brady’s final seasons of football before settling down in Miami after finalizing their divorce last October.

In the background, she was also privately dealing with two ailing parents. “It's been very tough on my family. It's been a lot — in every area of my life,” she says. “I feel like whenever it rains, it pours. With all the different twists and turns that life takes, all we can do is the best we can given what happens in our surroundings.” Bündchen relied on meditation, daily exercise (“I work out every single day,” she says, noting a mix of walks, yoga and weights) and a dedication to wellness through nutrition — her debut cookbook Nourish...

“I think if I didn't have all the different tools that I have to support me during these times, it would've been very hard,” she says. “And I think we all can relate to that, because I think we all have gone through our roller coasters of life.” Gisele Bündchen is sharing how she focused on her mental health amid her very public divorce from Tom Brady. In the latest issue of Vogue Brazil, the 43-year-old supermodel opens up about how dealing with recent major life changes. "I've always trusted that every situation, no matter how challenging, has something to teach us and happens for our growth," she tells the magazine, translated from Portuguese. "Breakups are never easy, especially when there's a whole media speculating every step of the way.

I tried to focus on my children, my health and my projects and dreams." Bündchen and Brady announced the "amicable" end of their 13-year marriage in October 2022. At the time, Bündchen said in a statement, "The decision to end a marriage is never easy, but we have grown apart." In the months that followed, there was speculation that she was romantically linked to her Jiu-Jitsu instructor, Joaquim Valente, which she denied. For his part, 46-year-old Brady has been rumored to be romantically connected to Kim Kardashian and Irina Shayk. Together, Bündchen and Brady are parents of children, Benjamin, 13, and Vivian, 10, while the former NFL pro is also dad to 15-year-old Jack, whom he shares with actress Bridget Moynahan.

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Bündchen posted the quote, and noted it was originally by writer Yung Pueblo (real name Diego Perez). “Personal transformation is not easy. Healing yourself takes time,” it read. “Letting go can sometimes feel overwhelming. Building new habits can seem like an uphill battle.” "I just think now I'm allowing myself to come out as Gisele versus as 'her,'" the supermodel says during an upcoming interview with CBS News Sunday Morning

Gisele Bündchen doesn't live with regrets. In an upcoming sit-down interview from her home in Costa Rica airing on CBS News Sunday Morning on Sept. 24, the supermodel, author, entrepreneur and mom, 43, shared how she's working on liberating herself and where she stands with ex-husband Tom Brady following their divorce last year after 13 years of marriage. “I think it’s not what I dreamed of and what I hoped for. My parents have been married for 50 years, and I really wanted that to happen,” Bündchen tells CBS' Lee Cowan of her relationship with the retired NFL icon. “But I think you have to accept you know sometimes that the way you are in your 20s, it’s sometimes you grow together, sometimes you grow apart.”

Related: Gisele Bündchen Says She Feels 'So Much Better at 43 than 23': 'My 40s Are Amazing' She told WSJ magazine she has to "put the oxygen mask" on before prioritizing her kids' well-being. Gisele Bündchen is speaking out about what her life looks like post-divorce from NFL star Tom Brady. In a new interview with WSJ magazine, Bündchen said the practice of gratitude is one she’s trying to adopt as a way to stay grounded, despite the curveballs life has thrown her way. "To live in a state of gratitude is like a protection in your life,” Bündchen said. "We can look at things like, why is this happening to me?

… When I look back, the biggest, most challenging experiences in my life ... showed me that I was stronger than I thought I was." Meditation and stretching are also important parts of her daily morning routine to help herself stay centered, she shared. “...I wake up around 5 and make sure that I have my meditation," she told the magazine. "I like to have lukewarm water with a little lemon and Celtic salt. Then I do my stretches, which I call my asana, for about 15 minutes, then 15 minutes of meditation."

When it comes to co-parenting, Bündchen shared that she has to make sure to “put the oxygen mask on me first” when it comes to taking care of the two kids she shares with... Still, both she and Brady have plenty of time with the kids, and maintaining a proper balance is important to her.

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