A few years ago, if you were to Google "celebrity power couples", you would have found Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady near the top of that list.

The supermodel and seven-time Super Bowl champion who are equally successful in their own right, were married for 13 years, and share two children, Benjamin and Vivian.

However, after months of speculation, the couple announced their separation in October 2022.

"With much gratitude for our time together, Tom and I have amicably finalised our divorce," Bündchen wrote in a statement on Instagram at the time.

"My priority has always been and will continue to be our children whom I love with all my heart. We will continue co-parenting to give them the love, care and attention they greatly deserve."

"The decision to end a marriage is never easy, but we have grown apart and while it is, of course, difficult to go through something like this, I feel blessed for the time we had together and only wish the best for Tom always," she said.

At the time, the quarterback called the divorce "painful and difficult".

"In recent days, my wife and I finalised our divorce from one another after 13 years of marriage. We arrived at this decision amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together," Brady wrote.

"We are blessed with beautiful and wonderful children who will continue to be the centre of our world in every way.

"We wish only the best for each other as we pursue new chapters in our lives that are yet to be written."

Now, five months after announcing their divorce, Bündchen has opened up in an interview with Vanity Fair, saying the separation was "the death of my dream".

"It’s tough because you imagine your life was going to be a certain way, and you did everything you could, you know?" said Bündchen, who features on the April cover.

"I believed in fairy tales when I was a kid. I think it’s beautiful to believe in that. I mean, I’m so grateful I did."

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The 42-year-old also addressed rumours the couple split due to Brady's choice to un-retire from football and that she supposedly gave her husband an ultimatum to choose their relationship over his career.

"What’s been said is one piece of a much bigger puzzle. It’s not so black and white," she told the publication, adding the speculation was "very hurtful".

"Listen, I have always cheered for him, and I would continue forever," she explained. "If there’s one person I want to be the happiest in the world, it’s him, believe me. I want him to achieve and to conquer. I want all his dreams to come true. That’s what I want, really, from the bottom of my heart."

Bündchen, who said the split was "like a death and a rebirth", went on to share the couple drifted apart after 13 years of marriage.

"Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart," she said. "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 realise 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."

Here's a look back at the couple's relationship, from how they met to their two children.

Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady's relationship.

Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady met in December 2006. According to the supermodel, now 42, it was love at first sight.

"I knew right way — the first time I saw him," she told Vanity Fair in 2009.

"We met through a friend. The moment I saw him, he smiled, and I was like, 'That is the most beautiful, charismatic smile I've ever seen!'" she continued.

"We sat and talked for three hours. I had to go home for Christmas, but I didn't want to leave.

"You know that feeling of, like, you can't get enough? From the first day we met, we've never spent one day without speaking to each other."

In January 2007, they officially started dating.

Before he met Bündchen, Brady, now 45, was dating actress Bridget Moynahan.

Just a month into his new relationship, Moynahan announced she was pregnant with his son.

"Two months into our relationship, Tom told me that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant," Gisele wrote in her memoir,Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life.

"The very next day the news was everywhere, and I felt my world had been turned upside down. Needless to say, that wasn't an easy time, but it was a time that brought about so much growth."

When appearing onCBS This Morningin 2011, the supermodel shared how the pregnancy made her reconsider dating Brady.

"I felt like I didn't know what to do," she said, according to The Boston Globe.

"It was one of those moments of like, 'Do I just run away?' Eight years later, I couldn't have asked for a sweeter bonus child."

Brady and Bündchen stayed together, and in August 2007, John Edward Thomas Moynahan was born.