The Super Bowl champ teamed up with his father, Tom Brady Sr., to talk about what being a father means to them
Tom Brady is honoring where he came from.
On May 31, the Super Bowl champion, 45, posted a video to his Instagram as part of his apparel brand Brady’s Father’s Day promotion. In the video, Brady and his father Tom Brady Sr., 79, talk about what being a father means to them.
“When my son Jack was born in 2007, my life changed forever,” the football player said of his 15-year-old son. “Nothing is more important to me than being a father.”
“As much as things changed when Jack was born, when Benny came along in 2009, he brought so much joy to my life. And then when Vivi was born in 2012, those three are my biggest inspirations. I try to go out there every day to make them proud,” the quarterback continued.
“It has carried through my entire life because of the role model I had at home,” he concluded. “And I try to be that for the beautiful little angels that I have in my home right now.”
The video cuts between Brady’s commentary and his father’s. Brady Sr. begins by saying, “Starting with our oldest Maureen, the gift of being a parent is the greatest gift that anybody can have.”
“And then through Julie and through Nancy, then obviously with Tommy, gave me a chance to have four new best friends in my life,” he said. “Four wonderful children and 10 magnificent grandchildren, each one of whom gives me overwhelming joy.”
Brady shares son Jack, 15, with ex Bridget Moynahan. He is also dad to son Benjamin, 13, and daughter Vivian, 10, whom he shares with ex-wife Gisele Bündchen, 42.
Earlier this month, Brady revealed that his son Jack might not continue to play football in the future. “Yeah, he played this last year and I don’t even know if he’s going to play next year,” Brady told PEOPLE. “And to be honest, whatever he chooses, I’ll be very happy. But he loves lacrosse…basketball’s probably his favorite sport, but he’s a very good student.”
“Again, I think wherever he ends up finding the path, I think for me and his mom just to support that is the best thing possible,” he added.
Tom Brady is so sad of the young man he called son.
On Thursday, April , the retired NFL pro, 46, appeared on DeepCut with VicBlends, opening up about his oldest child, son Jack. Brady shares his 16-year-old with ex Bridget Moynahan, and is also dad to son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11, whom he shares with ex Gisele Bündchen, 43.
“I mean my oldest son, Jack, he’s an amazing young man. Straight As. Handles himself so well in groups of people and I see him and he’s 16, and I’m like how are you so mature,” Brady raves.
“[He] lives in New York City, puts his heart and soul into everything he does. I mean he just, he blows me away with who he is.”
In the same interview, Brady got candid about when he first became a parent, sharing that he felt his journey to fatherhood improved with time.
“You get better as a parent, I think, because you know when you’re a young parent, you don’t really know what you’re doing. You’re winging it. You’re trying to wing it,” Brady said.
“So I think when you become a parent, you’re trying new things for the first time, you’re going through all these things for the first time so you don’t exactly know always the right thing to say. As you go, you get a little bit better at it, you get a little more understanding of it and you try to just continue to kind of refresh your skills as a parent.”
“‘Am I listening or am I talking? Am I mentoring, or am I disciplining? Am I holding them accountable or am I letting them get away with things?’ ” added the dad of three.
In a sit-down interview with Robin Roberts in March, Bündchen opened up about her relationship Jack.
“I got to experience how it is to feel, to be a mom before I was even a mom. To be a bonus mom,” she shared. “So I got to experience how my heart could feel that love and just expand in ways I never thought were possible.”
Later in her conversation with Roberts, the cookbook author remembered meeting her stepson when he was very little.
“But I mean, I met him when he was 3 months old, you know? I raised him like. I love him,” Bündchen added.