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Tom Brady releases Fleetwood Mac lyrics amid Gisele Bündchen pregnancy news

Tom Brady releases Fleetwood Mac lyrics amid Gisele Bündchen pregnancy news

Following Monday's news that his supermodel ex-wife Gisele Bündchen is pregnant, former Patriots quarterback Tom Brady posted an Instagram Story to the Chicks' cover of Fleetwood Mac's “Landslide.”

Brady's story included a sunset photo with three red heart emojis, but no text other than the lyrics to the melancholy song playing in the bottom right corner: “Oh mirror in heaven, what is love?” / Can the child in my heart rise above it? / Can I sail through the changing tides of the ocean?”

Brady's cryptic post came just hours after People Magazine reported Bündchen's pregnancy. According to the report, Bündchen, who turned 44 in July, is expecting a baby with 35-year-old jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente, whom she has been dating since June 2023. (It is unclear when and how the two first met.)

Brady, 47, who won seven Super Bowls before finally hanging up his cleats and taking a lucrative job as an NFL analyst for Fox Sports, posted no context that could explain the meaning of his contribution. “Landslide” was written by Stevie Nicks in 1973 and released by Fleetwood Mac in 1975. Nicks said she wrote the song while living in Aspen – “when you see my reflection in the snowy hills…” – and it's about her relationship with guitarist and bandmate Lindsey Buckingham.

Brady and Bündchen were married for 13 years before divorcing in October 2022. While Brady played for the Patriots, they lived in Back Bay and then for several years in a house they built in Brookline. The couple has two children together – Benjamin Rein and Vivian Lake, now 14 and 11 years old, respectively. Brady also has a son, Jack, from a relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan. The couple's divorce was finalized quickly and without any apparent acrimony. But in an interview with Harper's Bazaar Earlier this year, Bundchen admitted that co-parenting isn't always easy. “The way you arrange your room, the way you organize and make your bed, is the way you will organize your life,” she told her children. “Sometimes I get resistance, especially because they live in two different houses now and there are two different paths. But I feel like I owe it to my children because of what my mother taught me.”


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