A new Tom Brady biography claims Gisele Bündchen consulted astrology and told him they were incompatible before their divorce, neither has confirmed it.
Lars Anderson’s 432-page book, “Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness,” revisits the final years of the quarterback’s 13-year marriage and puts a pointed private claim on the record.
An unnamed insider close to Brady told the biographer that Bündchen turned to astrology near the end and informed her husband they were “not compatible.” HOLA! USA reported the account as the Celadon Books title headed for release. Neither Brady nor Bündchen has publicly confirmed that exchange.
The claim sits inside a longer portrait of a marriage strained by football’s demands, competing ambitions, and a late attempt to hold things together.
Anderson, a veteran sportswriter, built the book on more than 350 original interviews with people around Brady’s personal and professional life. The narrative tracks the couple’s friction after peak Patriots years.
After New England’s historic Super Bowl comeback in 2017, Bündchen asked whether it would be “the perfect time to retire.” Brady’s reported reply was blunt: “Too bad, babe. I’m having too much fun right now.”
A year later, following a Super Bowl loss, Anderson writes that Bündchen sent her husband a handwritten letter. She needed more of him, more time, more attention, more of his heart. The couple later sought counseling.
Anderson sums up her position in plain terms:
"She needed more of him, more of his time, more of his attention, more of his heart."
Brady kept playing. Bündchen wanted presence at home, help with the children, and room for her own career. Those competing pulls never fully resolved.
By August 2022, Brady was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the marriage was in real trouble. He left training camp for 11 days.
He told Buccaneers coach Clyde Christensen he had to “take care of some personal things.” The book says he met Bündchen at a private resort in the Bahamas in a bid to repair the relationship.
An assistant coach interviewed for the biography recalled the uncertainty inside the building.
The coach said, according to Anderson:
"Tom didn’t know what the heck was going on. And we didn’t know if he was ever coming back."
When Brady returned, Christensen saw a changed man. “There was no joy. Everything was hard work,” the coach said.
Two months later, in October 2022, the couple announced the divorce. Brady called it “a very amicable situation,” said they reached the decision “amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together,” and still described the ending as “painful and difficult.” His stated priority was taking care of family and the children while doing his job.
Bündchen, in a 2023 interview, pushed back against a simple football-only storyline. “Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart,” she said. She called the end of the marriage “the death of my dream,” and added, “When you love someone, you don’t put them in a jail and say, ‘You have to live this life.’” On co-parenting, she said, “We are a team.” She also said she looked back with “no regrets.”
Brady retired for good in February 2023 at age 45. In a 2026 interview he said his last season was tough, that he was dealing with “a personal family issue,” and that the situation “took a lot out of me.” He said he “wanted to spend time with my kids.”
Celadon Books frames the project as an examination of the “true cost of greatness.” The astrology detail, sourced to one unnamed insider and unconfirmed by either spouse, is the line now driving headlines. The broader record in Anderson’s telling is more familiar: a Hall of Fame career, a partner who wanted more of the man at home, counseling that did not close the gap, a last-ditch trip to the Bahamas, and a divorce announced weeks later.
When a marriage is already fraying, looking to the stars is no substitute for the hard work of keeping a family intact, and the cost of greatness still lands first on the people waiting at home.
