Four years after his marriage to one supermodel ended, Tom Brady is reportedly seeing another — and neither of them is saying a word about it.
Brady, 49, and Victoria’s Secret model Candice Swanepoel, 38, have been dating “for a while,” a source said in a report published Oct. 24, 2026. Neither the seven-time Super Bowl champion nor the South African-born model has publicly addressed the relationship, which surfaced four years after his divorce from supermodel Gisele Bündchen was finalized in October 2022.
“I don’t have much time for a personal life or much time for myself, but I love working, and I love my kids,” Brady said in January.
A Romance Hidden for Months
Later reporting described a relationship that has been under way for months, with the pair taking care to avoid notice when they spend time together. Brady, now Fox Sports’ lead NFL analyst, has been linked since the divorce to Irina Shayk and Alix Earle, and over the years to Reese Witherspoon and Kim Kardashian. Through all of it he has said little about his private life.
Swanepoel is a Vogue cover girl who made her Victoria’s Secret runway debut in 2007 — a year after Bündchen, 46, retired her wings in 2006.
A Decade With Her Ex, Then Silence
Swanepoel’s last publicly known relationship was a decade long. She and former fiancé Hermann Nicoli, 44, split in 2018, and she has kept her dating life private ever since. They are the parents of two sons, Anacã, 10, and Ariel, eight.
She has been more open about the juggling act. Balance is a constant search, Swanepoel said in a 2023 interview, and she does sometimes feel overwhelmed. Taking care of her own physical and mental health, she said, makes her a better mother — and her sons have begun to understand that.
From the ESPYs to the Met Gala
Brady’s romantic history reaches back to the start of his career. He and “American Pie” actress Tara Reid dated briefly in the early 2000s after meeting at the ESPY Awards. “It was nothing serious, but it was fun,” Reid said in 2023.
By the time he won his first Super Bowl with the New England Patriots in 2004, he had begun dating “Blue Bloods” star Bridget Moynahan, and the two turned up together at the Met Gala and Oscar parties. They announced their breakup in December 2006. Moynahan gave birth to their son, John Edward Thomas Moynahan — known as Jack — in August 2007, and wed Andrew Frankel in 2015. Jack is now 19.
Brady married Bündchen in February 2009. Son Benjamin arrived that December, and daughter Vivian followed three years later; they are now 16 and 13, and their parents coparent them. Bündchen stepped back from the runway to focus on raising the family.
The marriage lasted 13 years. The couple announced their split in October 2022, and Brady retired from the NFL for good in 2023. Bündchen has denied that his reversal of an earlier retirement decision caused the breakup, saying instead that the two grew apart.
As of reporting published Oct. 26, neither Brady nor Swanepoel had offered any account of how their relationship began or how long it has run.
Brady has been down this road before. Speaking at a Tampa Bay Buccaneers press conference in September 2022, about a month before he and Bündchen announced their split, he said of the attention on his personal life, “I just deal with it the best way I can.”