Tom Brady Says Gisele Bundchen Hates Seeing Him Get Hit During Football: ‘It Pains Her’

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Hard to watch. Tom Brady opened up about how stressful it is for wife Gisele Bündchen to watch him get tackled on the football field.“My wife is my biggest supporter,” the quarterback, 44, said during an episode of his SiriusXM podcast “Let’s Go!

with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray” on Monday, January 24. “It pains her to see me get hit out there.”Witnessing the ways that his successful career has impacted the model, 41, and their three children has made Brady think more critically about retirement. “She deserves [to get] what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad,” the NFL champion explained. “And I’m gonna spend some time with them and give them what they need, ‘cause they’ve really been giving me what I need the last six months to do what I love to do.”Brady continued: “I said this a few years ago, [but that’s] what relationships are all about.

It’s not always what I want. It’s what we want as a family. And I’m gonna spend a lot of time with them and figure out in the future what’s next.”Ultimately, the football star revealed that the big decision comes down to finding a way to balance his love for the game and his love for the children he shares with Bündchen, Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9. (Brady also shares son Jack, 14, with ex Bridget Moynahan.) “My days are meaningful to me.

I’m gonna try to keep ’em meaningful to me,” he said. “And, you know, in the meantime I’m gonna do as best I can to enjoy the time that I have not playing football.