Get to Know Gisele Bündchen's New Boyfriend and Rumored Met Gala Date

Gisele Bündchen is one of the highest-paid supermodels in the world—and she was once in one of the most high-profile relationships in Hollywood. From 2009 to 2022, Bündchen was married to seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. The former couple met in late 2006 after they were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend.

“I think the one phone call that changed my life was my friend Ed, who called me one day and he said, ‘I have this girl and I think you should call her,’” Brady recalled to WSJ Magazine in September 2021. “I ended up calling her and it ended up being the love of my life.” Just over one year later, however, Brady and Bündchen split after more than 13 years of marriage. The couple announced the news in October 2022, revealing that they had quietly—and amicably—finalized their divorce.

Bündchen has since moved on with jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente, whom she reportedly began dating in 2023. After being one half of a super-couple, though, Bündchen seems content to keep her romance with Valente under the radar.

Keep reading for a complete guide to Bündchen’s boyfriend.

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Does Gisele Bündchen have a boyfriend?

Yes. Bündchen has been dating Joaquim Valente since June 2023, according to People, but news of their romance didn’t break until February 2024. The duo, who were first spotted together in late 2022, were friends for a while before their relationship turned romantic.

During a March 2023 interview with Vanity Fair, Bündchen shut down rumors that she and Valente were more than friends. “He’s our teacher and, most importantly, he’s a person that I admire and that I trust,” she explained. “It’s so good to have that kind of energy, to have my kids around that type of energy.”

Valente is a jiu-jitsu instructor who runs a chain of Florida martial arts studios with his brothers.

Are Gisele Bündchen and Joaquim Valente dating?

Bündchen has reportedly been in a relationship with Valente since June 2023, but she’s kept their romance out of the public eye. During a March 2024 interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, the supermodel declined to answer questions about Valente. According to Roberts, Bündchen said she “wants to keep her personal life private.”

In the same interview, Bündchen said yes when asked whether she was willing to “open up her heart” again following her divorce from Tom Brady. “Right now, really my priority is my kids and creating this beautiful sanctuary for my family, but then yes, why not?” she said. “Life is full of surprises. I don’t have a crystal ball that says what will happen tomorrow, but yes.”

How did Gisele Bündchen and Joaquim Valente meet?

Bündchen met Valente in 2021 when she began training at his Florida jiu-jitsu studio, Valente Brothers. “I believe the more tools we have in our toolbox the better. I feel stronger, more confidence and empowered since I started practicing self-defense,” she wrote via Instagram in February 2022 alongside a video of herself practicing the martial art. “I feel it’s an important skill for all, but [especially] for us women. Thank you @ValenteBrothers for being awesome teachers and for making training so much fun.”

Bündchen later explained that she actually learned about the class when she took her son to enroll. Only then did she decide to start training herself.

“Initially, I wasn’t even considering it for myself,” she explained to Dust Magazine in 2022. “But when I brought [my son] to the first class and started talking to Joaquim, I realized that it was much more than self-defense.”

Without mentioning Valente by name, Bündchen confirmed during a March 2024 interview with The New York Times that she is seeing someone who she initially knew platonically. “This is the first time I am seeing someone that was a friend of mine first,” she explained. “It’s very different. It is very honest, and it’s very transparent.”

Are Gisele Bündchen and Joaquim Valente married?

Bündchen and Valente aren’t married—and they’ll likely keep any future updates about their relationship, like an engagement, to themselves.

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When did Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady get divorced?

While rumors circulated that Bündchen was unhappy with Brady’s infamous decision to unretire from football in 2022, she said the following year that the duo had simply become different people after 13 years of marriage.

“Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart,” she told Vanity Fair in March 2023. “When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together. As time goes by, we realize that we just wanted different things, and now we have a choice to make. That doesn't mean you don't love the person. It just means that in order for you to be authentic and truly live the life that you want to live, you have to have somebody who can meet you in the middle, right? It's a dance. It's a balance.”

The exes are now coparenting their two children, son Benjamin and daughter Vivian. Bündchen also still maintains a relationship with her stepson, Jack, whom Brady shares with ex Bridget Moynahan. “I love him so very much,” she told Robin Roberts in March 2024, adding that she calls Jack her “bonus child.”

Was Gisele Bündchen still with Tom Brady when she started dating Joaquim Valente?

Bündchen met Valente while she was still married to Brady, but they didn’t start dating until well after the model and her ex-husband split. Brady and Bündchen announced their divorce in October 2022, and Bündchen and Valente reportedly started dating in June 2023.

During a March 2024 interview with The New York Times, Bündchen slammed rumors that her romance with Valente started before the end of her marriage to Brady. “That is a lie,” she said. “This is something that happens to a lot of women who get blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as being unfaithful. They have to deal with their communities. They have to deal with their family. Of course for me, it just happens to be a little bit amplified.”

How long did Gisele Bündchen date Leonardo DiCaprio?

Prior to her romance with Brady, Bündchen famously dated Leonardo DiCaprio off and on from 2000 to 2005. She even accompanied him to the Oscars in 2005, marking the first and only time he’s ever brought a date to the ceremony. (He was nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Aviator but lost to Jamie Foxx for Ray.)

Why did Gisele Bündchen and Leonardo DiCaprio break up?

Years after their 2005 split, Bündchen said that her relationship with DiCaprio didn’t work out because they were simply too young. (They were both in their 20s when they started dating.)

“We were very young, and we grew together in a lot of ways,” she told Vanity Fair in March 2009. “We were just not meant to be boyfriend and girlfriend, but I respect him enormously, and I wish him nothing but the best.”

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