Tom Brady has a new leading lady, and the couple managed to keep it hidden for months. The seven-time Super Bowl champion, 49, is dating South African supermodel Candice Swanepoel, 38, according to sources speaking to People — who say the two have been together for a while and are spending a lot of time together in Miami, where they both live. Us Weekly first reported the pairing on Saturday; neither Brady nor Swanepoel has said a word about it publicly.
The secrecy was deliberate. A second source says Swanepoel has been very guarded about the relationship, selective about who she has told, and that when the two have met up they have gone to great lengths not to be spotted. That discipline explains how the biggest name in American football and one of the most famous Victoria's Secret models in the world dated for months in the same city without a single photograph surfacing.
It is Brady's most serious reported relationship since his 2022 divorce from Gisele Bündchen ended one of sport's most famous marriages. He has since been linked to Irina Shayk and Alix Earle but has kept his private life locked down — telling People in January that he did not have much time for a personal life, that he loved working, and that he loved his kids. Brady shares Benjamin and Vivian with Bündchen and his eldest son, Jack, with Bridget Moynahan.
Swanepoel, a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2010 and one of the highest-paid models of her generation, has two sons with her former fiancé, Brazilian model Hermann Nicoli, whom she split from in 2018 after more than a decade together. She has likewise kept her relationships out of the spotlight since. Now that this one is out, keeping it quiet gets much harder — two of the most photographed people in America, in the same city, with the whole entertainment press watching.
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