Gisele Bündchen ended her 13-year marriage to Tom Brady with three words about compatibility, a new book claims the astrology line left the NFL star crushed.
A forthcoming biography of the retired quarterback reports that Bündchen looked to the stars, told Brady they no longer fit, and walked away from the marriage that had defined both of their public lives.
Page Six detailed the account from Lars Anderson’s book “Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness,” obtained by the Daily Mail and set for release Sept. 29. An insider close to Brady described the break to Anderson in plain terms.
The insider said Bündchen, long interested in astrology, “basically looked into the stars and told Tom, ‘We’re not compatible.’” Anderson wrote that “just like that, she was done.”
Brady and Bündchen announced their divorce on Oct. 28, 2022, after 13 years of marriage. They said their children, Benjamin, then 16, and Vivian, then 13, came first. Bündchen posted on Instagram that they had “grown apart,” that the split was difficult, and that she felt “blessed for the time we had together” and wished Brady well.
Reps for both were not immediately available to comment when the book details surfaced.
Anderson’s reporting frames the marriage strain around a simple clash: Brady wanted to keep playing at the highest level, and Bündchen wanted a husband who was present at home.
The pressure, the book says, ran back at least to the 2017 Super Bowl, when Brady’s New England Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons for his sixth title. Bündchen allegedly rushed the field and asked whether it was “the perfect time to retire.” Later that day she asked again. Brady’s alleged reply: “Too bad, babe. I’m having too much fun right now.”
A few weeks later the couple vacationed with Jay Feely, Brady’s former University of Michigan teammate. Bündchen wanted Feely to urge Brady to step away and lead the family. Feely later told Sports Illustrated’s Greg Bishop she was “dead serious.” Feely’s message to Brady was different: “Play as long as you want.”
After the Patriots lost the 2018 Super Bowl to the Philadelphia Eagles, Anderson reported that Bündchen sent Brady a serious note. She needed him present at home, not answering a buzzing phone or replaying games in his head. She needed more help with the kids, a few mornings to sleep in, and time for her own career.
"She needed him to be present when he was at home, not responding to text messages on his constantly buzzing cell phone or replaying a game in his mind. She needed more help with the kids. She needed the chance to sleep in just a few days a week. She needed more time for her own career."
A former teammate told Anderson that Bündchen was “a bigger international star” than the athlete and was “getting tired of living” on his schedule. One of Brady’s pals, a former football player, put the lifestyle in blunt terms: Brady rose at dawn, thought about a game foreign to his wife all day, and was in bed by nine. He could barely eat out without a scene. “Everything he puts in his mouth tastes like s***. The whole lifestyle had to be getting tiresome for Gisele.”
Brady signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 after two decades with the Patriots. He stayed two seasons, announced retirement in February 2022, then reversed course the next month.
On X he wrote that he had “realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” adding, “That time will come. But it’s not now.”
Bündchen had publicly backed him. The unretirement still hit hard. The book says she briefly fled to Costa Rica, leaving Brady distraught. When he returned to training camp, coaches and teammates told Anderson he had lost weight, seemed distracted, and questioned the decision.
The marriage did not survive the year. The divorce followed that October.
Bündchen, now 46, remarried jujitsu instructor Joaquim Valente in December 2025. The couple has a 1-year-old son. Brady, 49, has since been linked to model Irina Shayk and internet personality Alix Earle.
Anderson’s book presents the marriage as a long collision between one of the greatest competitive drives in sports history and a spouse who wanted ordinary presence, sleep, and a life not run by the NFL calendar. The three-word verdict, “We’re not compatible”, arrives in the narrative as the final cut after years of retirement talks, notes, and schedule fatigue.
Fame, titles, and perfect routines still leave a house empty when one partner lives only for the next snap. Family gets the bill either way.
