The renowned supermodel Gisele Bündchen has taken advantage of the holiday season to have a relaxing getaway on the beaches of Costa Rica. For this year-end holiday, Bündchen was seen in a bikini, showing off her baby bump and accompanied by her boyfriend, jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente.
The 44-year-old Brazilian was captured walking barefoot and calm in images obtained by the media outlet Page Six. Bünchen was seen smiling, with her hair down and enjoying the sun alongside Valente.
This is Gisele Bündchen's third pregnancy.
The news that Bünchen and Valente are expecting their first child together was made public in October 2024. Prior to this relationship, the model welcomed her two children, Benjamin, 15, and Vivian, 12, from her marriage to former NFL player, Tom Brady. She is also the adoptive mother of Brady's son, Jack, who is now 17 years old.
Bündchen and Brady ended their marriage in 2022, after 13 years together, and finalized their divorce in October of that same year. However, a small controversy arose as, during this time, Gisele had started working with Valente as her jiu-jitsu instructor, but it was after her breakup with Brady that their relationship started to become closer.
In an interview with the New York Times, however, Bündchen emphatically denied any romance with Valente while still married to Brady, calling those rumors 'a lie': "This is something that happens to many women, who are blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as unfaithful," she explained at that time.
The relationship between Bündchen and the instructor became public in March 2023 and since then, they have been seen together on several occasions but have not been exempt from criticism or rejection. During a segment of Tom Brady’s Netflix special (The Roast of Tom Brady), comedians like Nikki Glaser and Kevin Hart openly mocked the couple, which ‘deeply disappointed’ Bündchen.