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Gisele Bündchen at an event in New York City in September.
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While Gisele Bündchen “can't really care” about what the world at large says about her, she has strong feelings when it comes to her family and raising her children.
The supermodel opened up about some of the challenges she's experienced while dealing with co-parenting with her ex-husband Tom Brady, saying in an interview with Harper's Bazaar published Thursday that she sometimes experiences “rejection” from her children.
“Especially because they live in two different houses now and there are two different paths,” Bündchen said, adding that her individual parenting style boils down to feeling like she “owes” her children to teach them valuable lessons her own mother taught her.
Those lessons include: “The way you decorate your room, the way you organize and make your bed, is the way you will organize your life,” she shared.
Bündchen admitted that her children are growing up with more privilege than they ever had when she was their age and said she tries to give them the tools they need to navigate life.
“If you don’t learn here and now, when and with whom?” she said.
Bündchen has two children with Brady – Vivian (11) and Benjamin (14). She is also the former stepmother of Brady's son Jack, 16, whom the football star shares with actress Bridget Moynahan.
Brady and Bündchen jointly announced in October 2022 that they were divorcing after 13 years of marriage, with both emphasizing at the time that co-parenting their children was a shared priority.
Since Bündchen and Brady are two people in the public eye, she knows that her personal life — especially as she navigates this new era as a single mother — is under more scrutiny than ever. But she doesn't care about external opinions.
“I can't really worry about what other people say about me because what they say about me is none of my business,” Bündchen told Harper's this week, adding, “It's really up to them what they choose to do want to project myself.” ”
“If this affects me,” she said, “I will never live my truth.”