Like many Romans in the Miami area, Gisele Bündchen began in a gym. However, she was the one who worked, had registered it, Benjamin, for Jiu-Jitsu classes at the Valente Brothers Academy in North Miami in 2021.
It is there she first with the instructor Joaquim Valente. Althegh she was still married to the NFL Tom Brady legend at that time, something certainly caught Gisele’s attention.
“When I started talking to Joaquim, I realized that it was much more than self -defense,” Gisele told Dust magazine in 2022. “I was very interested [in] Philosophy … and how I have a way to develop and become the best version of myself. And then I got hooked. “
Hooked, in fact.
That same year, Gisele published a video or his fight with his future flame duration, a Jiu-Jitsu session. “I feel stronger, safer and more empowered since I began to practice self -defense,” he subtitled Instagram’s publication.
Meanwhile, the rumor was in overmarcha as the cracks in their marriage with Brady began to show. By October 28, 2022, it was official: Gisele and the Campal Marshal goat had ended. “The decision to finish a marriage is never easy, but we have grown separately,” he wrote on Instagram.
But not everyone buy the narrative “we grew separately.” Gisele, 44, and Joaquim, 37, confirmed their relationship in February 2024, but whispers persist that things were heated long before that, perhaps even before divorce documents are signed.
Gisele, applauded in an interview with the New York Times, saying: “That is a lie”, and should be blamed for having “the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship.”
Even so, the post can exclusively confirm that the supermodel spent thanksgiving 2023 approached Joaquim and his family in the Majestic Towers in Bal Harbor, where two of his brothers, who run the Jiu-Jitsu Academy next to him, live. The building has a private restaurant where the crew enjoyed Turkey and ornaments, and where Gisele raised more than a few careful eyebrows.
The guests were pleasantly surprised to see the beauty “Devil Wears Prada” serving casually in the buffet and chatting hotly with other residents. “She spoke with everyone and was absolutely adorable,” recalled an assistant. “He felt more like the next girl for a global supermodel.”
The kicker? Gisele was flying alone -Eirr of her and Brady’s children; Benjamin, now 15 years old, and Vivian, 12, were in sight.
After divorce, Bündchen has created an idyllic life in Miami, which lives peacefully in a mansion in front of the sea of $ 11.5 million in Surfside. The small city in front of the front of the beach is alone .564 square miles and is surrounded by the brightest neighborhoods of Miami Beach and Bal Harbor.
“People have seen it,” a surfide neighbor spilled, “but adheres to her street, which feels like a private road and ends in a dead end. I have never seen it in the community’s pole, which is only open to surfside waste.”
Last year, Gisele had a particular reason to stay out of the center of attention. In October 2024, it surprised many with the news that she was pregnant. She and Joaquim welcomed a baby in February, thought they kept the first name under wrapping. According to people, his second name is River, according to the aquatic theme of their other children, whose names are (Benjamin) rein and (vivian) Lake.
Breaking a roof, Gisele was recently seen walking to his dog with his newborn in a baby chest baby carrier, looking at Miami’s sports mother in Allo Leggings, white baseball hat and sleeveless t -shirt. According to our source, no one hit an eye.
“We are accustomed to seeing Ivanka Trump here,” Surfide’s owner shared for a long time, referring to the fact that Trump and his family resided in Surfside for several years. “Surfside is the least narrow community in Miami. Gisele is just another mother in the neighborhood.”
Both Joaquim and Gisele are health nuts, and she maintains her long and thin body with Pilates, as a regular Pilates reform in the nearby islands of the port of Bay, where she has been working stealthily.
“He is super quiet and never attracts attention to herself,” said a gym partner. “She takes the last reformer in the back and does not take after class. I can say that she does not like the attention to be for her. It is naturally beautiful in person, it is as if it were shining.”
When asked if people are intimidated by exercising next to one of the most beautiful women in the world, Pilates Pro said skillfully that she and her classmates are too focused on their form to be amazed.
And Victoria’s Secret Stunner training is not always alone. She has brought Joaquim to the mixture, with the couple doing pilates together. Apparently, the Jiu-Jitsu expert had a little problems with the reformer and the weighted cables at the beginning. “Gisele had to show him how it works,” our source revealed.
However, since the baby was born, they saw each other together at the Pilates Studio POSH. On the other hand, the couple has embraced life at sea, opting for a more private and luxurious experience aboard their new V44 Schaefer V44, which they bought for $ 1.2 million in February.
On a recent cruise, Gisele, with a black and low -piece black swimsuit, was seen Sening a kiss with Joaquim and showing his body after pregnancy. (Hello, Pilates!) It is also photographed by the leg and leaving in the picturesque river paths of Miami with Vivian and close friends.
As for their parenting style, Gisele and Joaquim share a very similar background: both were born and grew up in Brazil, they speak Portuguese and come from large and very close families: it is one of the six sisters, including its twin fraternal patricia, and he is one of the four Valente sisters.
The three Valente brothers are known in the world of martial arts for their serious Brazilian jiu-jitsu approach. His father, Dr. Pedro Valente, was a superior plastic surgeon in Rio and an early student of Hélio Gracie, the man accredited by the creation of modern BJJ. Dr. Valente also served as Secretary of Health for both the city and for the state of Rio de Janeiro and was the doctor of the legendary Basque Soccer Club Da Gama.
The three brothers attended an American school in Rio before moving to Miami one by one. Joaquim, the group’s baby, arrived in 2007 to study criminology at the University of Barry. The Valente Brothers Academy was founded in 1998, but did not really take off until the three brothers began to teach together.
As expected, both Gisele and Joaquim eat super clean and do not drink alcohol or party. A local influencer who is on the social scene said he never sees Gisele or Joaquim anywhere, from the opening of the restaurant to the nightclubs. “Zero, nothing, they are extremely hidden,” he told the post.
Gisele currently prefers to nest at home with his newborn, who will undoubtedly begin to practice Jiu-Jitsu as soon as he turned two years.
She is not far from her other children, since Brady’s mansion in Indian Creek is just a soccer spiral. Only separated by the water, Gisele’s residence is positioned in such a way that if there are trees, you could see practically the rear patio of $ 28.6 million Brady, and allegedly vice versa.
If Gisele needs a space to navigate, he has multiple places to visit, including the rustic ranches farm Southwest ranches of $ 9.1 million that he bought in 2023 and the house in front of the front of the beach in Santa Teresa that she and Brady had bought in The Keep. She and Valente were later seen there with full happiness Babymono at the end of 2024, and her relationship seems to flourish a lot in the future.
