She’s a drop dead gorgeous multi-millionaire with a super star new husband, and now women of the world have one more reason to hate supermodel Gisele Bundchen.
Apparently, marriage has made the rich (rhymes with witch) more arrogant than ever.
If you missed the headlines (and the thousands of subsequent Internet posts), Bundchen is speaking out for the first time about being more than just a stepmom to John Edward Thomas Moynahan, the 18-month-old love child of her new hubby New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his ex-girlfriend model-actress Bridget Moynahan.
In the latest Vanity Fair issue, Bundchen let loose about her new status as John’s “other mom,” not only saying that the boy was “100 percent her child,” but adding: “It’s not like because somebody else delivered him, that’s not my child. I love him the same way as if he were mine. I already feel like he’s my son, from the first day . . . He’s my little angel — the sweetest, most cuddly, loving baby. I feel blessed to have him in my life. I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that. But to me, it’s not like because somebody else delivered him, that’s not my child — I feel it is, 100 percent.”
Whoa!
Now, before I jump on the Bundchen-bashing bandwagon, I will try to give the 28-year-old a break. Perhaps, something got lost in translation (she’s from Brazil after all) or she was just trying to express the love she has for her new husband’s child.
Either that or the pretty girl really is pretty darn ugly on the inside.
I mean c’mon, how insensitive can you be?
After reading Bundchen’s bragging, a close pal of Moynahan told Page Six, “If Gisele loved Bridget’s child like he was ‘100 percent her own,’ then she would not talk about him in the press. Discretion and respect are not either of Gisele or Tom’s virtues, as was evidenced even when the child was still unborn and they publicly flaunted their relationship without any discretion whatsoever.”
For those of you who missed the pre-birth drama, Brady and Moynahan dated for nearly three years, and broke up shortly before the actress learned she was pregnant. In the meantime, Brady wasted no time hooking up with Bundchen and neglected Moynahan for the duration of her pregnancy while he romanced his new cover girl.
Little John was born on August 22, 2007, and for the first year of his life he saw his father only a handful of times, mainly due to the fact that Brady lives and works on the East Coast and John and Moynahan reside in California.
Fast forward to February 2009, Bundchen and Brady tie the knot in Santa Monica and she begins spewing her bold statements about motherhood.
Needless to say Bundchen’s remarks about John being her child hasn’t won the world’s highest paying model any new friends. In fact, her actions have incited a new war of words between the two camps.
Moynahan’s friends rushed to her defense the day after the interview ran saying: “Don’t you think Jack will grow up and read her comments and find them disrespectful to him and his mother? If Tom is such a great father as everyone likes to say, then you would think that he’d respect the privacy of his young child and would ask his wife not to use his son as a publicity prop and a subject of public discussion. Is she is so desperate for attention that she can’t find anything more productive to talk about other than Bridget’s child?”
Forget Moynahan, Bundchen and Brady, I feel sorry for little John. For starters the kid has got to have some major identity issues. His last name is Moynahan (a fact that Bundchen obviously missed when bragging that the boy is “100%” her child). What’s more, the boy’s biological mom (the one he’s with 90% of the time) calls him “Jack,” but according to Bundchen, she refers to him as “Johnny” when he spends time with her.
Who knows what Bundchen’s intentions were when she made her now infamous comments to Vanity Fair. Regardless, she definitely stirred up a debate on appropriate stepmother behavior. Most Vanity Fair readers expressed disgust with the supermodel’s declaration that since the day he was born, little Jack was “100% hers.”
I am not surprised that millions of women would react negatively to that over-the-top comment. What caught me off-guard were the statements Bundchen made about John Edward’s dad. According to the leggy dirty blonde, one of the main reasons she married the hunky pro athlete was because “He’s a good Catholic. His parents have been married 40 years. He’s got a pure heart. That’s all that matters – he’s got the purest heart.”
Newsflash Gisele: If your boy was such a “good Catholic” he would have never knocked up his ex-girlfriend, ignored her during her pregnancy, and shacked up with you in your multi-million dollar New York townhouse and lived there in sin for more than two years. That’s some “pure heart” your hubby’s got.
What do you make of Bundchen’s mommy comments?