Bridget Moynahan unexpectedly found herself in the spotlight following her 2006 split from Tom Brady and her high-profile pregnancy — and decades later, the exes are on good terms.
The Blue Bloods alum dated Brady from 2004 to 2006 and learned that she was pregnant with their child months after their split, when the NFL star had already moved on with now-ex-wife Gisele Bündchen.
Moynahan gave birth to son John “Jack” Edward Thomas in 2007. Brady, for his part, married Bündchen in February 2009. The pair welcomed son Benjamin that same year and daughter Vivian in 2012. (Brady and Bündchen divorced in 2022.)
Moynahan has kept most of her feelings about Brady quiet. However, she previously told More magazine that her blended family was a blessing.
“My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it’s cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends,” Moynahan said. “My son is surrounded by love.”
Scroll down to see more of Moynahan’s honest quotes about her relationship with Brady:
‘Traumatic’ Heartbreak
“There’s no reason why my son years down the line would need to read anything [personal] about his mother or his father,” Moynahan told Harper’s Bazaar in June 2008, attempting to distance herself from the drama of her past relationship. “Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that. It’s golden and it’s tough and it was f–ked up. But now I have a child and it’s the best thing in the world.”
Though the Ramona and Beezus actress would value the presence of “a strong male figure” in Jack’s life, she added, “I’d rather be alone [than] with somebody who doesn’t work. I don’t need that, and my son doesn’t need that.”
No Regrets
In a February 2011 interview with More magazine, the I, Robot actress admitted that Brady “wasn’t holding my hand” in the hospital during their son’s birth. However, Moynahan wouldn’t have had it any other way. “There’s not a second I regret having a child on my own,” she said at the time.
No Shade to Gisele
“I never made a comment about Gisele or Tom publicly,” Moynahan told More magazine in February 2011, two years after the former Patriots quarterback married the Brazilian model. “I have a relationship with these people on a daily basis. I’m raising a child, and it’s public. My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it’s cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.”
‘Congrats TB’
After a federal judge tossed Brady’s four-game suspension from the NFL amid the infamous “Deflategate” controversy, Moynahan celebrated her former flame’s freedom. “Yippee! I can go back to private texts and enjoying the game congrats #TB and @Patriots #letsmoveon,” she joked via Twitter in September 2015.
‘I Love’ Being Jack’s Mom
More than a decade after welcoming Jack, the Coyote Ugly actress told Us exclusively that motherhood helped her learn to “focus on what’s more important” than modeling or acting ever could. “I think that one thing I love about being a mom is that it takes me outside of myself,” she said in April 2019 of raising her and Brady’s son.
Media Frenzy
In the aftermath of her breakup and giving birth to Jack, Moynahan “barely left” her house. “Having a baby should have been the most joyous time of my life, but instead I felt assaulted,” she wrote in her 2019 book Our Shoes, Our Selves. “It’s unnerving to be followed and stalked like that, especially during such an emotionally vulnerable time. … I became reclusive for a bit. I became wildly private. I shared little and only with a select few.”
As she worked through her split from Brady, Moynahan reached for a pair of black leather Miu Miu motorcycle boots to help “give me back some of the confidence and strength that I had lost.”
‘Shedding’ Her Past
Moynahan realized that she still had plenty of feelings about her breakup to unpack while she was working on Our Shoes, Our Selves. “I feel like this project has kind of shown that to me that I still unconsciously carried that around with me,” she said during an April 2019 Build interview. “And so I’m still working through that and kind of shedding that now.”
Proud Fan
When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Green Bay Packers in the NFL playoffs in January 2021 — sending Brady to his 10th career Super Bowl — Moynahan was one of the first to congratulate her ex’s achievement. “Could not be more proud @tombrady said he would do it and he did,” Moynahan wrote via Instagram at the time. “Congratulations @buccaneers.” Brady celebrated the big win with a special father-son moment, reaching to hug Jack in the stands after the game.
A Novel Surprise
While reading the Amity Gaige book Sea Wife, Moynahan was surprised to find her ex’s name in print in one section. She shared a photo of the page, which referenced “the image of Tom Brady shirtless,” via Instagram. “Wait!? What?” she wrote. “Kinda cool, no?”
Getting ‘Comfortable’ With the End
In October 2022 — as rumors continued to swirl about Brady’s marriage to Bündchen — Moynahan shared a cryptic quote with her Instagram followers about getting used to change. “Not everything is meant to be mended,” read the excerpt, which was originally posted by a marriage and family therapist. “Not all relationships are meant to last a lifetime. Sometimes we have to learn to get comfortable with the gifts that are offered through the ruptures and the endings instead of the stories of repair and reconciliation.”
Getting Roasted
Moynahan and Brady’s relationship was a big topic of conversation during Netflix’s The Roast of Tom Brady, which premiered in May 2024.
“Tom, you’re the best to ever play for too long. You retired then came back then retired, I get it. … It’s hard to walk away from something that isn’t your pregnant girlfriend,” Nikki Glaser said during the special. “To be fair, he didn’t know; he just thought she was getting fat.”
Will Ferrell joked, “The last time this guy went truly deep, he ended up paying child support to Bridget Moynahan.”
Moynahan appeared to comment on the roast by sharing a quote via Instagram that read, “Loyal people take s*** more personal because they never would’ve did that s*** to you.”
Moynahan added the caption, “So true.”
Proud Parents
Moynahan and Brady reunited in June 2026 to celebrate their son, Jack, graduating from high school. Both of Jack’s parents shared photos from the ceremony of the trio together as well as with other family members for the occasion.
“So proud of our boy Jack. We are all excited to see what you do next! @tombrady @andrewnyse #graduation #wedidit #proudparents,” Moynahan wrote via Instagram, tagging her ex and her husband, Andrew Frankel.
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