With a Pregnancy at 44, Gisele Bündchen Has Joined a Rare Club of Celebrities Led By Meryl Streep and Halle Berry
- Gisele Bündchen, 44, is expecting her third child and first with her partner Joaquim Valente.
- Bündchen shares 2 kids with Tom Brady and her third child will let her into the club of 40+ celeb moms.
- Celebs like Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, and Meryl Streep have had successful pregnancies after 40.
Since the much-talked-about separation from her husband, Tom Brady, the former Victoria’s Secret Angel Gisele Bündchen has been constantly in the news. After about 13 years of marriage and sharing two children, the supermodel is now dating her Jiu-Jitsu instructor, Joaquim Valente.
Since retiring from the runway in 2015, the Brazilian supermodel’s life has been quite full of surprises. Even though she occasionally featured in magazines and fashion shoots, her professional life has seen less significant changes than her personal life. And the recent change puts her in an exclusive group of celebrity mothers.
Gisele Bündchen Is Pregnant With Baby Number Three
Gisele Bündchen and Joaquim Valente were first noticed together in Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica, in November 2022. At first, they publicly denied dating rumors, but later their relationship escalated, and many believe that the two began dating in June 2023.
Sources close to Bündchen told People that the 44-year-old supermodel is pregnant with her third child, which will be her first child with Valente, who is now 37. The source revealed,
Gisele and Joaquim are happy for this new chapter in their life and they’re looking forward to creating a peaceful and loving environment for the whole family.
Bündchen already shares two children with ex-husband Tom Brady– Benjamin Rein, 14, and Vivian Lake, 11. Benjamin was born in December 2009 through home birth, which created some disagreement between the then couple as Brady was not in favor of home birth but Bündchen wanted it (as per People).
After the couple decided to separate, they signed the papers of joint custody for their two kids. A source told People that the supermodel has “blossomed” since she and Brady went their separate ways and added that “she is secure and happy, and so busy with her life that she doesn’t have time to dwell on the negatives out there.”
Bündchen’s pregnancy news is a testament to her growing relationship with Valente. The two lovers had to build their chemistry gradually as the couple was very private about their relationship initially, and Bündchen wanted to keep it low-key until she got to know Valente.
Growing Club of 40+ Celebrity Moms
Bündchen will soon be joining the growing club of celebs who have found motherhood past the age of 40. Halle Berry gave birth to her second child at the age of 47, calling it a “geriatric pregnancy” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The pregnancy was a complete shock for Berry, who believed she was “premenopausal.”
Salma Hayek became a mother at 41 when she delivered her baby girl, Valentina. When the actress got pregnant, she had some concerns since she was a little old to have a baby naturally. Hayek told WebMD that she thought she was “going to need help getting pregnant” but was happy with the timing as her baby “gets a better mother for being born now.”
Eva Mendes was 40 when she had her first child, Esmeralda, followed by Amada two years later. The legendary Meryl Streep also gave birth to her youngest daughter, Louisa, in 1991, at the age of 42. Streep shares four kids with her ex-husband, Don Gummer. Her eldest child, Henry Gummer, was born in 1979 when Streep was 30.
Some other celeb moms who joined this rare club are Julianne Moore, who gave birth to her daughter Liv at 41, and Naomi Watts, who had her children at the ages of 39 and 40. As Gisele Bündchen heads to join these women, she will pen another chapter in the successful pregnancies after 40.
