As a world-famous supermodel, Gisele Bündchen is the definition of a cool mom and not a normal mom. But even an A-lister like Bündchen is occasionally criticized by her children.
The Brazilian fashion icon opened up about the state of her family life in a new cover story for Harper's Bazaar. Bündchen admitted that her children with her ex-husband and former Patriots quarterback Tom Brady aren't always happy with their parenting decisions.
“Sometimes I get pushed back, especially because they live in two different houses now and there are two different styles,” Bündchen said of raising her son Benjamin and daughter Vivian. “But I feel like I owe it to my children because of what my mother taught me.”
The supermodel wants her children to learn the same lessons she learned from their mother so they know how to behave independently in the real world.
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“The way you arrange your room, the way you organize and make your bed, is the way you will organize your life,” Bündchen said. “If you don’t learn here and now, when and with whom?”
Despite occasional resistance from the children, Bündchen and Brady, who divorced in 2022, are said to have an amicable co-parenting situation, with a source telling Us Weekly in December that they are taking a “really adult” approach to raising their children.
Bündchen, no stranger to the rumor mill, also admitted in her interview with Harper's Bazaar that she doesn't worry much about what others think of her.
“I can't worry about what other people say about me because what they say about me is none of my business. It’s really their business that they want to project onto me,” Bündchen said. “If this affects me, I will never live my truth.”
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