Tom Brady's Wife Told Her Kids After SuperBowl "“Sometimes you have to let other people win,’…We have to share. Sharing is caring.’’
MINNEAPOLIS — Gisele Bündchen, Tom Brady’s wife, turned the New England Patriots’ 41-33 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday in Super Bowl LII into a teaching moment for their children — two of whom were crying after the game.
“They haven’t won in a million years,’’ Bündchen said of the Eagles, and it probably felt that way for the Eagles fans before their team won their first Super Bowl title and first NFL championship since 1960.
But Brady’s two sons and daughter were not easily consoled.
At one point, 5-year-old daughter Vivian blurted out, “The Eagles won the Super Bowl.’’
Replied Bündchen, “Just this time. Daddy won five times. They never won before.
“Their whole life, they never won a Super Bowl. You have to let someone else win sometimes.’’
At one point, Bündchen crouched down and wiped tears from the eyes of Vivian and 8-year-old son Benjamin. Brady’s third child, 10-year-old John, stood stoically on the other side of Gisele.
“Sometimes you have to let other people win,’’ she said. “…We have to share. Sharing is caring.’’
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It seems like Gisele Bundchen has heard enough.
The supermodel took to Twitter Wednesday afternoon to address the backlash she’s received for some of her reported postgame remarks about Super Bowl 52.
“Just to be clear,” she wrote. “No one ‘let’ anyone win. People win because of their own merit. Tired of people twisting my words to create drama that doesn’t exist!”
Just to be clear. No one “let” anyone win. People win because of their own merit. Tired of people twisting my words to create drama that doesn’t exist!
According to USA Today’s Josh Peter , Brady and Bundchen’s 8-year-old son, Benjamin , and 5-year-old daughter, Vivian , were both visibly upset at the result of the game. In an effort to comfort the crying pair, the mother of two reportedly told them, “Sometimes you have to let other people win.”
“Their whole life, they never won a Super Bowl. You have to let someone else win sometimes,” Bundchen continued, according to Peter. “We have to share. Sharing is caring.”
The story circulated on social media Monday and received a critical response.
“The idea that Tom Brady or the Patriots ‘let’ the Eagles win the Super Bowl is ridiculous, of course, and Bundchen shouldn’t be peddling that to kids,” Fox News’ Karol Markovitz wrote . “It teaches them to expect that winning is something that other people will sometimes grant them, instead of something they earn on their own. It’s a lesson their father doesn’t demonstrate on the field at all.”
She should have just told them the other team played better that day. Not complicated.
I read this earlier. The only thing close to being polite I can say is that she is very entitled. I can only imagine how those kids are going to turn out.
Yeesh...
A 5 year old might not quite understand "losing", but the 8 year old should have without a lot of problem.
I presume none of us have had a dad QB in the Superbowl though, so maybe we don't quite understand the trauma.
If she wanted to be totally honest, she should have told the kids that daddy is a cheater and has never won the Superbowl fair and square!