Gisele Bündchen went public with a gushing birthday message for husband Joaquim Valente.
The supermodel, 46, posted to her Instagram Stories on Saturday to mark the jiu-jitsu instructor’s 39th birthday, sharing a photo of the couple posing together. “Today a great man was born,” she wrote in Portuguese.
“How lucky I am — I love you so much!”
Bündchen and Valente’s path to marriage began years earlier as friends before they started dating around June 2023. They kept their relationship private until February 2024, when sources said the pair were “deeply in love.”
The couple made headlines again that October when Bündchen stepped out in Miami with her baby bump visible beneath a black wrap dress. She gave birth to their son in February 2025, though his name has not been publicly revealed.
By November 2024, the health guru and Valente had already secretly wed during an intimate ceremony with family and friends present. “He is thrilled they finally tied the knot after having a kid together,” an insider said about Valente at the time.
Bündchen first displayed her gold wedding band during a February bike ride with her youngest son in Miami.
The Brazilian model is also mother to Benjamin, 16, and Vivian, 13, from her previous marriage to Tom Brady. The former couple ended their 13-year union in October 2022.
“We have grown apart and while it is, of course, difficult to go through something like this, I feel blessed for the time we had together and only wish the best for Tom always,” Bündchen wrote in a statement announcing their split.
Brady, 49, has since been linked to Victoria’s Secret supermodel Candice Swanepoel, 38, though sources said last month that their relationship isn’t too “serious.”
The birthday tribute marks a rare public declaration from Bündchen, who has largely shielded her new family from media attention since remarrying.
Bündchen’s romantic history with Brady spanned more than a decade and produced two children before their highly publicized divorce. The former NFL quarterback has continued to generate headlines of his own with his subsequent dating life.
Bündchen and Valente are expected to continue raising their newborn in Miami, where the family has been based.