Gisele Bndchen "Chose Not To Look" At Leonardo DiCaprio's "Numbing" Lifestyle During Their Relatio

Highlights

• Gisele Bündchen's public breakups with DiCaprio and Brady led to soul-searching and growth for the supermodel.
• Brady and Bündchen "grew apart" leading to their divorce, with different paths causing a split after years together.
• Bündchen is "taking it slow" with her jiu-jitsu trainer boyfriend after the divorce, prioritizing privacy and personal growth.

Recently, Tom Brady said he regrets doing his Netflix roast because of how it hurt his kids and his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen – who was mentioned a lot due to her alleged affair with her jiu-jitsu trainer. Even the athlete's other ex Bridget Moynahan was noticeably upset about the whole thing.

But this isn't the first time Bündchen has had such a public breakup. In 2005, she was under the prying eyes of the media after her split from Leonardo DiCaprio – whose lifestyle she "chose not to look" at despite its negative effect on her. Here's what happened between them, as well as what led her to "take it slow" with her new boyfriend (the jiu-jitsu teacher) after divorcing Brady.

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Gisele Bündchen Did Some "Soul-Searching" While Leonardo DiCaprio "Stayed The Same"

Bündchen and DiCaprio were in an on-and-off relationship from 2000 to 2005. The former had never spoken about their breakup until 2018 when she released her memoir, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life. There, she shared how she struggled to keep up with the Titanic star's lifestyle. "No longer numbing myself with smoking, drinking and too much work, I was becoming more and more aware of things that I'd chosen not to look at," she wrote.

"Was I alone in wanting to do some serious soul-searching while he stayed the same? In the end, unfortunately, the answer was yes."

At that time, the supermodel admitted that she "had been smoking cigarettes, drinking a bottle of wine and three mocha Frappuccinos every day" but "gave up everything in one day," thinking "if this stuff is in any way the cause of this pain in my life, it's gotta go." That included DiCaprio whom she still credited for "teaching" her something about herself.

"Everyone who crosses our path is a teacher, they come into our lives to show us something about ourselves," she explained. "And I think that's what he was. What is good versus bad? I honor him for what he was." A year later, Bündchen told Porter that she'd suffered from panic attacks during those tough times.

"When I was going through my panic attacks, I didn't even feel like I could share [them] with anyone," she told the magazine. "I thought maybe I don't have the right, everybody is going through so many difficult things in the world, and I don't have the right to feel this way. So I'd suppress it, and the more I suppressed it, the bigger it became.

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Gisele Bündchen Said She And Tom Brady Also "Grew Apart"

In March 2023, Bündchen revealed that she and Brady "grew apart." Speaking to Vanity Fair about their shocking divorce, which was finalized in late 2022, she said: "It's tough because you imagine your life was going to be a certain way, and you did everything you could, you know?"

She continued: "I believed in fairy tales when I was a kid. I think it's beautiful to believe in that. I mean, I'm so grateful I did. You give everything you got to achieve your dream. You give a hundred percent of yourself, and it's heartbreaking when it doesn't end up the way you hoped for, and worked for, but you can only do your part." She then clarified the real cause of their divorce.

"Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart."

Bündchen confessed that they started to want different things, years into the marriage. "When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together," she said. "As time goes by, we realize that we just wanted different things, and now we have a choice to make."

She added: "That doesn't mean you don't love the person. It just means that in order for you to be authentic and truly live the life that you want to live, you have to have somebody who can meet you in the middle, right? It's a dance. It's a balance." At that time, people assumed it was Brady's refusal to retire from the NFL that had caused the split.

The Brazilian model thought it was a "very hurtful" accusation. "Listen, I have always cheered for him, and I would continue forever," she said. "If there's one person I want to be the happiest in the world, it's him, believe me. I want him to achieve and to conquer. I want all his dreams to come true. That's what I want, really, from the bottom of my heart."

Here's a timeline of Brady and Bündchen's relationship:

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Gisele Bündchen Is "Taking It Slow" With Her Jiu-Jitsu Teacher Boyfriend Joaquim Valente

Two weeks after her divorce, Bündchen was spotted in Costa Rica with her new boyfriend, Joaquim Valente – the jiu-jitsu trainer mentioned in every joke at Brady's roast. The model started taking classes from Valente in December 2021. "I'm a very intense person, so when I enjoy something, I am committed," she told Dust Magazine back then.

The model initially denied being in a relationship with the Valente Brothers co-founder. "I think, at this point, unfortunately, because I'm divorced, I'm sure that they're going to try to attach me to anything," she told Vanity Fair in March 2023. But she also thanked him and his brothers for training her and her kids.

"I'm so grateful to know all of them, because not only have they helped me and helped my kids, but they have become great friends, and Joaquim especially," said Bündchen, before setting the record straight about their relationship.

"He's our teacher and, most importantly, he's a person that I admire and that I trust. It's so good to have that kind of energy, to have my kids around that type of energy."

According to sources, Bündchen has been dating Valente since June 2023. "They're taking it slow," an insider told People. "They started out as great friends. She's very private about this and wanted to keep it quiet while they got to know each other." They added that the couple "come from similar backgrounds. They both left Brazil very young. Gisele's in a great space. Joaquim is perfect for her."

In January 2023, another insider claimed: "Gisele adores and trusts [Joaquim] and has been spending a lot of time with him, but I don't think it's a traditional dating scenario. They have a deep personal relationship, and he is a teacher to her and the kids. Whether or not it will ever become more than that rests on the table."

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