Brady, Gisele announce divorce after 13 years

TAMPA, Fla. -- Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady announced Friday that helium and woman Gisele Bundchen person finalized a divorce, ending 13 years of matrimony and months of speculation astir marital strife.

Brady posted connected Instagram: "In caller days, my woman and I finalized our divorcement from 1 different aft 13 years of marriage. We arrived astatine this determination amicably and with gratitude for the clip we spent together. We are blessed with beauteous and fantastic children who volition proceed to beryllium the halfway of our satellite successful each way. We volition proceed to enactment unneurotic arsenic parents to ever guarantee they person the emotion and attraction they deserve.

"We arrived astatine this determination to extremity our matrimony aft overmuch consideration.

"Doing truthful is, of course, achy and difficult, similar it is for galore radical who spell done the aforesaid happening each time astir the world. However we privation lone the champion for each different arsenic we prosecute immoderate caller chapters successful our lives that are yet to beryllium written.

"And we kindly inquire for privateness and respect arsenic we navigate what is to travel successful the days and weeks ahead. Thank you."

According to documents filed successful Glades County, Florida, the matrimony was deemed "irretrievably broken." Other details of the divorcement are sealed.

The mates stock 2 children, Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9. Brady besides has a 15-year-old son, Jack, with histrion Bridget Moynahan.

Bundchen struck a akin code successful her Instagram station announcing the couple's divorce.

"The determination to extremity a matrimony is ne'er casual but we person grown isolated and portion it is, of course, hard to spell done thing similar this, I consciousness blessed for the clip we spent unneurotic and lone privation the champion for Tom always," Bundchen's work successful part.

The Bucs mislaid to the Baltimore Ravens 27-22 Thursday nighttime -- their 5th nonaccomplishment successful the past six games -- and Brady sat astatine his locker looking despondent afterward arsenic teammates Blaine Gabbert and Ryan Griffin and quarterbacks manager Clyde Christensen tried to comfortableness him.

It has been an antithetic play for Brady, 1 that saw him instrumentality aft a 40-day retirement.

In announcing his comeback, Brady posted 2 photos -- 1 with his violative enactment getting acceptable to drawback the ball, and 1 with Bundchen walking with his 3 children, each wearing Bucs gear. He wrote, "I emotion my teammates and I emotion my supportive family. They marque it each possible."

Bundchen had expressed nationalist enactment for Brady's instrumentality to football, tweeting connected Sept. 11, the time of Tampa Bay's play opener. It was the past clip she posted astir Brady connected societal media.

Brady was granted an 11-day interruption during grooming campy truthful helium could thin to "personal things," arsenic manager Todd Bowles enactment it, for which helium spent clip with his family.

When asked astir his lack upon his return, Brady said, "It's each personal. Everyone's got antithetic situations they're dealing with. I'm 45 years old, man. There's a batch of s--- going on. You've conscionable got to effort to fig retired beingness the champion you can."

The mates reportedly person been surviving separately, with Bundchen photographed aggregate times successful Miami and New York City successful caller weeks without her wedding band. She had besides been noticeably absent from each Bucs location games this season.

In an interrogation with Elle mag successful September, Bundchen expressed her concerns astir Brady continuing to play due to the fact that of the convulsive quality of the crippled but said, "Ultimately, I consciousness that everybody has to marque a determination that works for [them]. He needs to travel his joyousness too."

She besides said that aft years of supporting Brady and tending to their family, "Now it's going to beryllium my turn."

"I've done my part, which is to beryllium determination for him," Bundchen said. "I moved to Boston and I focused connected creating a cocoon and a loving situation for my children to turn up successful and to beryllium determination supporting him and his dreams."

In his 23rd season, Brady is chasing his eighth Super Bowl rubric and his 2nd successful Tampa Bay. However, the Bucs are 2nd successful the NFC South astatine 3-5 and person mislaid 3 consecutive games.