{"id":887894,"date":"2026-09-11T07:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887894\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:58:24","slug":"gisele-bundchen-makes-rare-comments-about-welcoming-a-baby-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887894\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisele B\u00fcndchen makes rare comments about welcoming a baby at 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/gisele-bundchen-baby-boy-comments-joaquim-valente-20250528-p5pp0e.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gisele B\u00fcndchen<\/a> has opened up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/gisele-bundchen-welcomes-third-baby-first-with-boyfriend-joaquim-valente-after-tom-brady-split-20250206-p5poce.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welcoming her third child in her 40s<\/a>, more than a decade after she first became a mother.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/i-d.co\/article\/the-beauty-of-being-of-gisele\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\">i-D<\/a>, the supermodel, 46, said having her son in February 2025 was \u201ca gift\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gisele Bundchen and her family\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/27970c513cd421f4f784f622e8184f0233db1c3b.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Gisele has kept the name of her youngest son private.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a baby at this moment of my life is such a gift because I\u2019m in a different place,\u201d B\u00fcndchen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have anything to prove. I don\u2019t feel like I really, quite frankly, care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not defined by other people\u2019s opinions. I feel like I get to choose how I want to live my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After decades of magazine covers and runways, the Brazilian said she now turned down most opportunities to instead spend time with her family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say no to 99 per cent of the jobs I\u2019m offered because, when I put it on the scale, I\u2019m like, \u2018Am I going to miss my daughter\u2019s volleyball game? Am I going to miss going to the park with my son? Am I going to miss my son DJing?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00fcndchen shares her two older children, son Benjamin, 16, and daughter Vivian, 13, with ex-husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/tom-brady-gisele-bundchen-parenting-jab-newsletter-20250730-p5ppff.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Brady<\/a>, 49.<\/p>\n<p>Her 18-month-old, whose name has been kept private, is her first with her second husband, Brazilian ju-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente.<\/p>\n<p>The couple keep their family life relatively private.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/lifestyle\/family-relationships\/parenting\/gisele-bundchen-baby-bump-confirms-pregnancy-first-time-video-third-child-20250130-p5qpf4.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00fcndchen shared her pregnancy news<\/a> only weeks before welcoming their son.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"@gisele B\u00fcndchen and her kids on Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/66b99bea7fe6a4d99b49a5d47e0f16455c7e59f8.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">B\u00fcndchen with her older children, Vivian and Benjamin.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n<p>While she never officially announced her third child\u2019s birth, she confirmed his arrival with a selfie in her 2025 Mother\u2019s Day post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been quiet over here but very busy living life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes the most beautiful moments aren\u2019t shared \u2013 they\u2019re simply lived \u2026 being a mother, it\u2019s been my greatest gift, a journey that humbles me, teaches me and fills me with gratitude every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gisele B\u00fcndchen has opened up about welcoming her third child in her 40s, more than a decade after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-887894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}