Tom Brady and his family may have a perfect life in everyone’s eyes, but it’s not all that way, at least financially. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback shared one of the “biggest challenges” he and wife Gisele Bündchen face as parents.
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In the latest episode of Spotify’s DRIVE podcast, the 44-year-old Super Bowl champion talked about how family has the responsibility of raising his children, Vivian Lake, 9, and son Benjamin Rein, 12. Brady also has son John “Jack” Edward, 14, whose mother is his ex, partner Bridget Moynahan.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback told podcast host and Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley, he wants his kids to understand that they are growing up differently than most kids, and therein lies the challenge.
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“We have people who clean for us. We have people who make our food. We have people who take us to the airport if we need it…we get off a plane and there are people waiting for us there and they get us through,” he explained. “That’s the reality for my kids, which is the hard part to say, guys, this is not the reality really….. What can we do about it?”
“I think we can try to create experiences that are more along the lines of what most kids go through, although they’ll still have experiences that a lot of kids never have.” The NFL star said he hopes to keep his children grounded despite living a life of privilege.
“I know I’ve messed up a lot of things [but] that’s the reality of being a parent,” he said. “You just hope you can show them enough things to realize that they’re doing selected things for mom and dad to make our lives more convenient that that’s a pleasure. That’s something that not all kids go through.”
The difficulty of being privileged children
Brady added that raising his children to understand their privilege is “probably the hardest thing” because of his and Bündchen’s humble beginnings. “My wife grew up in rural Brazil, the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, kind of a very small farming town, a very simple girl,” he said. “There are two rooms in her house: one for her parents and one for her and her five sisters.”
“I grew up, I would say, in a middle-class family in California, my dad worked for our family,” she explained. “My mom stayed home [and] took care of us kids and I watched my mom work every day to make us food at night and do our laundry and now they supported us by coming to all our games and it was amazing and then I see my life with my family and it’s so fast.”
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