By the time Tom won his first Super Bowl with the New England Patriots in 2004, he’d entered a new relationship with Bridget Moynahan.
And as the Blue Bloods star and the athlete posed for photos at glamorous events like the Met Gala and Oscar parties, they seemed like the picture-perfect couple.
“I can be myself around her, and there’s not many people I can be myself around,” Tom said in a 2005 60 Minutes interview. “It’s fun to be around your best friends who know you well, and she’s someone that I consider one of my very best friends.”
Not long after, Tom met Gisele Bündchen. And as their relationship was beginning, he learned that Bridget was pregnant with his child—leading to a media frenzy.
“I would have cars following me, and men hiding in the bushes outside my house,” she recalled to People in 2019. “As a new mother, you want to just protect your child. That kind of attention felt like a threat.”
Bridget gave birth to son John Edward Thomas Moynahan (a.k.a. Jack) in August 2007. And over time, she, Tom and Gisele formed a solid co-parenting bond.
“Tom and I made a decision to raise a child together and we both found partners that not only supported us in raising that child, but also loved our child as if he was their own,” the actress, who wed Andrew Frankel in 2015, added. “I don’t think you can ask for more than that. My son is surrounded by love.”