Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen announce divorce after 13 years of marriage

NFL superstar Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen are getting divorced aft 13 years of marriage, they announced Friday.

"We arrived astatine this determination amicably and with gratitude for the clip we spent together," the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, 45, said connected Instagram. "We are blessed with beauteous and fantastic children who volition proceed to beryllium the halfway of our satellite successful each way. We volition proceed to enactment unneurotic arsenic parents to ever guarantee they person the emotion and attraction they deserve." 

The personage mates joined successful 2009 and person 2 children together: Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9. Brady has different son, Jack, 15, with erstwhile woman Bridget Moynahan. Combined, Brady and Bündchen person a reported nett worthy of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Bündchen, 42, said in a connection posted to her Instagram, "The determination to extremity a matrimony is ne'er casual but we person grown isolated and portion it is, of course, difficult to spell done thing similar this, I consciousness blessed for the clip we had unneurotic and lone privation the champion for Tom always."

Brady returned to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this play weeks aft announcing his retirement back successful February. In an interrogation with Elle Magazine successful September, Bundchen expressed her concerns astir Brady returning to shot for a 23rd season, and his 3rd with the Buccaneers.

"Obviously, I person my concerns—this is simply a precise convulsive sport, and I person my children and I would similar him to beryllium much present," she said. "I person decidedly had those conversations with him implicit and implicit again. But ultimately, I consciousness that everybody has to marque a determination that works for [them]. He needs to travel his joy, too."

Brady's Bucs are 3-5 this year, an uncharacteristically atrocious grounds for the quarterback, who's won 7 Super Bowls, including six with the New England Patriots and 1 with Tampa.

The Buccaneers mislaid to the Baltimore Ravens connected Thursday night.