Gisele has already given birth! Isn’t that… really fast? I guess we’ve been warped by Jessica Simpson and Reese Witherspoon and Drew Barrymore, all of whom I could have sworn had 11-month gestation periods. Gisele never really got around to officially announcing this second pregnancy either – sometime after the Met Gala in May, “sources” merely confirmed that Gisele and Tom Brady were expecting again. So… it was all very fast. Mazel tov!
We’re told that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, welcomed their second child Wednesday night, a bouncing baby girl named Vivian. This marks the third child for Brady, who has a 2-year-old son, Benjamin, with Gisele, and a 5-year-old son, John, with actress Bridget Moynahan. Brady and Gisele confirmed they were expecting in August, and the rumored arrival came days before Ben celebrates his birthday on Saturday. There was no word on whether Gisele went with a water birth again this time. We wish the happy family the best.
Aw! I’m so glad they had a little girl this time. And I don’t hate the name Vivian either. It reminds me of Pretty Woman (Julia’s character’s name was Vivian) and of Vivienne Jolie-Pitt. I bet Tom is super-excited he got a daughter at last. And I bet she’s daddy’s little girl. Congrats to Gisele and Tom!
UPDATE: Gisele posted a photo and announcement on her Facebook – the photo is just of little Vivian’s hand, and we know the baby’s middle name now! She’s Vivian Lake Brady. Gisele’s message: “We feel so lucky to have been able to experience the miracle of birth once again and are forever grateful for the opportunity to be the parents of another little angel. Vivian Lake was born at home on December 5. She is healthy and full of life.
Thank you all for your support and well wishes. We wish you and your families many blessings.”
These are photos from one month ago, the beginning of November. Was Gisele really eight months pregnant then?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Congrats! But is this means that she would start giving an advice about how to raise a child again in the interview???
Of course she will; don’t forget she has her BSD (Bull Shitters Degree) in child rearing.
But she does carry pregnancy well; Damn her and congrats at the same time.
Let me guess, Vivian is already potty trained at one day old and we are all bad moms because our little ones were not potty trained so early. I recall an interview she did when her son was a baby and she insisted he was potty trained because after a feeding she held him over a toilet and had him pee into the commode – all the while putting down the rest of us mothers who are obviously doing everything wrong! I have disliked her immensely after that interview years ago.
Its called Elimination Communication (EC) & some people swear it works. Personally, I think it trains the parents more than the kids, but whatever works, ya know?
None of that doesn’t mean that she isn’t in insufferable, though!
@Bodhi – yeah it works (sort of) because you frequently hover your child over a toilet until they go to figure out their eating/digestion cycle and then, once you’ve figured out their cycle, you pretty much change the frequency of holding them over the toilet to meet their schedule. It’s like house training a puppy but they’re not really house trained until they start telling you when they need to go. EC is really a misnomer since the baby isn’t communicating he/she needs to go so they may go when you dangle them over the toilet but that doesn’t mean they are really potty trained. If a parent using EC doesn’t hold the kid over the toilet at the right time, they’ll still go wherever they may be. To truly be potty trained, they start to realize they’ll need to go and then tell you.
If you really want your baby to be potty trained at a younger age, use cloth diapers instead of disposables. They tend to start to put 2 & 2 together more quickly if they’re uncomfortable after soiling.
@ ol cranky – My son is 19mo & has been in cloth since he was 6 weeks. I am part of a cloth diapering group here in Tulsa & I talk about them All.The.Time on FaceBook & I preach about them to all my preggo friends. I LOVE cloth!
@ bodhi- I need to pick your brain ASAP!!!! Our little man is four weeks old. We want to cloth diaper once he fits the size two thirsties. But that said seriously. I need to pick your brain. We want to give ec a shot too. How did you find a cloth diaper group????
@moxylady I found my group just googling “cloth diapers tulsa”. You might find a shop in your town & they are always great resources. You might find a FaceBook group too, which is what I was lucky enough to find.
You might have to wait a while till your babe fits into a Thirsties size 2. Have you thought about a one size option? Rumparooz are my fave b/c they have a double gusset (great for holding in those poosplosions!) There are sooooo many brands & styles & it can get overwhelming
@ bodhi-
My husband and I watched a ton of YouTube videos going over the different types and brands. It is very overwhelming! We went for thirsties but I can’t remember why now. (Very tired lol) we only got a couple to see if we really like them.
How often do you do laundry? Any tips or thoughts? What are some major benefits in your mind?
I’d have called her VIVIEN LEIGH Brady!
I cloth diaper too! I like the bumgenius one size. Got great deals in Black Friday the year before last.
Me too! Such a pretty name and she was a kick ass actress 🙂
Aww congrats to them! I’m so happy they had a little girl!
Ahh, I think the woman is insufferable, but I bet she’s over the moon about having a girl. So much fun!
Congrats!
Congrats to them. And thank you for the lack of overshare this time around. (That would be an all-encompassing “thank you,” regarding both the pregnancy and your mothering in the future. Consider it a baby gift.)
+ 1
It’s nice to see a celebrity name their child something normal. Vivian is a nice choice, it’s a little different, but still normal. The child won’t have to spell it everytime she is asked her name. And she’s not named after a fruit, or a color or some other weird inspiration.
That’s my nearly 8 year old daughter’s name too. We never used to meet other little “Vivians”, but now there’s a lot under the age of 2 or so.
I think Vivian/Vivienne is turning out to be the new thing in celebrity baby names. Before, it was Violet and before that was Lola (straight out the womb and on to the pole, huh? Does she add body shimmer to her placenta to create the fetus experience?)
Thank goodness they can give their kids actual human names and Praise Jesus that I didn’t even know she was pregnant.
+1,000,000 🙂
No way she was really pregnant. Just kidding! But seriously, that was fast and she looked amazing.
LOL I was thinking the same thing where is her conspiracy theory?
Anyone think to themselves “of course she had a boy and a girl.”
Anyway I like the name. Her pregnancy went by really fast. Maybe she knows how insufferable she came off in the interviews and is keeping quiet because of them.
I wish I was a woman that only gained weight in my belly. She looks like a pregnant stick figure.
Seriously! I feel like that’s the “ideal” way to carry. It looks like she didn’t have to wear maternity stuff beyond a few loose tops. Lucky bitch 😉
I had a gf who carried twins, and you couldn’t tell she was prego honestly unless you saw her stand sideways. She was in her pre-prego jeans like 4 weeks later! I think that tall lithe ladies can do that. Me, I looked like I carried an entire bball team in my pouch when it was just one! UGH.
Congrats to the Brady’s and btw I love the name Vivian (Viv).
@Chat-Yup, at my last job, one of the marketing managers carried the exact same way. It looked like a fake bump, like she just had a basketball under her sweater 🙂
My mom got really big all over (and she was only 5’2″ 98 lbs when she got pregnant!) so I assume it would be the same way for me. Booo! Hate the genetic lottery 🙁
I gained 35-40 on my short (kind of) small frame. You know when you blow up a rubber glove? That’s what my feet looked like. It was awful!
Lots of people told me I was all belly. But I don’t think they remembered what I looked like before. Oh and my face got fat too.
Giselle is around 6 feet tall, so, of course she won’t show as much.
2012 = most prolific year in celebs baby births..
Totally forgot this one was pregnant.
I saw a headline a few days about her, and apparently she was spouting out some BS again about “violent hospital births.” I didn’t have time to read the article but I am pretty sure I can guess what it said. Damn, this woman is a self-righteous idiot.
She is self righteous, and sanctimonious, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t women who experience coercion, violence, and birth trauma. Although I don’t know if that’s what she was talking about.
There are women who experience violence, coercion and plain substandard care in homebirths, too. If you want to ruin your day, google Hurt By Homebirth. Women deserve to be listened to and respected and they deserve competent medical care, wherever they give birth.
I don’t doubt it. I had quite the online interaction with a home birth midwife a few months ago; there is no doubt in my mind that midwives are also capable of victimizing. I don’t think that the home birth culture supports it in the same way as the doctor/patient power structure does.
check out a documentry called “The business of being born”. It is a film created by Riki Lake after her poor experiance with a hospital birth. Super informative.
When my sister was having her baby, she was wandering the halls and could hear a woman while she was giving birth. Her male doctor, impatient as f*ck said something like, “Well I’ve had about enough of this,” and proceeded to cut her… both sides because the f*cker couldn’t take the time and slow it down so she wouldn’t tear, so he did it for her.
So… yeah…. violent births can happen.
But maybe the doctor had an important golf game to get to or something.
I saw a headline a few days about her, and apparently she was spouting out some BS again about “violent hospital births.” I didn’t have time to read the article but I am pretty sure I can guess what it said. This woman is a self-righteous idiot.
I meant to comment to you, but accidentally commented above.
She may be self-righteous and vocal, but, she’s not wrong.
elaborate, please (ignorant of such things)
Poor child. This is going to be one unfortunate looking girl.
Always cool to pick on a baby.
I know this is subjective, but both of her parents are gorgeous people. So it would make sense if that’s what you’re basing it on.
Sometimes gorgeous people don’t always have gorgeous babies, and vice versa.
And my favorite baby will ALWAYS be Amy Poehler’s red head baby!
#1
I’m so glad it isn’t another Olive or Pearl..
They mentioned on Sunday during Tom’s game that the birth was close. So happy for them. Glad they finally got a little girl in that family.
+1. I got the impression they both wanted a girl so I’m super-happy for them. My big brother is 2 years older and my best friend so I hope Vivian’s big bros watch out for her like mine did 😉
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Just wanted to say hi.
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Oh thanks so much! I’m just flattered that anyone even reads my comments at all around here 😉
That is a really pretty name, a classic take on Veronica Lake.
Anyway, I think her body was just built for pregnancy, it seems to take to it very well. Also, she’s probably very healthy, which helps.
She’s also almost 6 ft tall, and that’s a huge help. More room for the baby, so you don’t expand outwards so much.
re: Veronica Lake.
Good point and its the same initials.
Well, being rich so you can afford all the healthy foods, having a personal trainer and being a model for years and knowing the tricks of the trade regarding how to keep your body in shape don’t hurt either.
I am 22 weeks and look the same as she was 8 months preg! But I didn’t have a falt belly to begin with, and am having twins. I don’t understand birthing at home. Hospitals are better – medical equipment needed is within reach, much more practical.
Good luck with your babies and birth…I respectfully disagree what’s better is whatever makes the mom most comfortable. She a horrible spokesperson but there are many people who have had peaceful and healthy home births and midwives are medically trained to know if/when a hospital visit is needed.
Min76 is right, hospitals aren’t for everybody. There are many women have had hospital births and home births/birthing center births, and would gladly attest to the fact that the home and birthing center births were easier and even safer than the hospital births.
Hospitals are great for some women, but not all women, and not all hospitals are equal. It is important to remember that last fact: not all hospitals are equal.
Oops, I meant to type “There are many women who have had…”.
Hospitals may be better for some people in some circumstances, but they aren’t empirically “better”.
I had water birth at a birth center & was cared for by midwives my whole pregnancy. It was an amazing experience & it was by far the best choice for me. Of course, if there had been complications, I would have gone to the hospital immediately (it was 2 minutes away), but most women with low risk pregnancies do not need to give birth in a hospital.
No-one should be judged for their birth choices; we are lucky to live in a modern age where we HAVE choices
Very well said, Bodhi. I couldn’t agree more.
I could kiss you for this comment. Anywaysssss muah
Congrats Gis.
Interesting middle name Lake.
Woulda been funny if it were Blake
Than again their first son’s full name is Benjamin Rain.
A water theme in the family maybe?
@Jegede: I think so. Gisele has been invoveled in environmental issues for years, especially the ones involving water (against polution, preservation areas, etc). Leo got involved while dating her.
correction: involved*
Leo got involved in environmental causes while dating her*
What’s wrong with giving advice on child rearing? Those that don’t agree, then don’t follow because you just don’t know that there are some women who can benefit/agree with her advices.
Very well said, Starlight. I never had a problem with her talking about her pregnancy and her thoughts on raising and caring for children. She wasn’t being pushy with her opinions to me, and even if she was, that doesn’t mean everyone has to follow.
The criticism she’s gotten for speaking about her experience and what she likes has always seemed very unreasonable to me.
The issue that most people seems to have is that she comes off as very “my way or the highway”. She doesn’t give room for differing opinions.
Meh – her being very “my way or the highway” doesn’t stop people from having their own opinions, talking about them, and doing what they want. She’s not in charge of how much room there is for opinion, so she can’t “give” room for opinion.
Yeah, thats true. Its not like she is holding people down & forcing them to listen to her
Congratulations on their new daughter!
As for her seemingly short pregnancy, she’s very tall so didn’t show as much. Drew, Reese & Jessica are all very short, and shorter women tend to look bigger sooner because the baby has nowhere to go.
Her opinions are her own so why do people get their knickers in a twist- like Gisele is going to be able change an international law and non abiding people will be banished! Come on, try are harmless reflections of her own experiences!
Vivian was the name of the “Lady of the Lake” in knights of the round table…maybe not everyone got told arthurian legends as bedtime stories (tumbleweed rolls by) but to me its like naming your kid the same thing twice..Anybody, anybody?…Bueller? Probably just me.
Good point. Makes me think of the book “Mists of Avalon”.
Congrats to Tom and Gisele! I always wanted a boy and a girl, in that order, but fate didn’t have that planned for me. Such is life. Vivian is a pretty name too.
Not a huge fan, but love the name Vivian. Reminds me of the awesome character Marianne Jean Baptiste played on ‘Without a Trace’.
Congrats to them.
i agree with other posters, tall mamas are able to carry the baby without expanding outwardly so much because there is so much more room in the torso. I am 5’11 and past my due date today and people still can’t believe im 9 months pregnant, even though the baby measures and weighs what it should!
What’s w/ Tom’s hair always looking like Eddie Munster’s?
Congrats to them for the baby; Viv is a pretty name. Isn’t the Pitt-Jolie daughter named Vivienne? Different spelling? Don’t hear much about their daughter.
Congrats! Nice name. I think John, Benjamin and Vivian sound very nice together (not that they have too).
Thank god!
I was so worried that she would go into labor before the game on Monday. It’s too big of a game for Brady to miss!
I also like the name and see her being Victoria Beckham like in her treatment of her daughter
What is this about Victoria Beckham? I.e what do you mean? The two have nothing in common?!?!
Wonderful news. Congratulations to the whole family. I hope mom and baby are doing well.
Yeah yeah, that’s great about the baby. What I want to know is what in the sweet hell is going on with Tom Brady’s hair in that first pic. Anyone?
Congrats! I read it she gonna have twins wrong prediction obviously.
The one time I am jealous of tall ladies is when I see them pregnant. My belly looks like that and I am just 6 months pregnant but 6 inches shorter than her. I wish I could be that tiny at 8 months! Probably one of the reasons these supermodels don’t seem to get any/many stretchmarks. Nothing has to stretch much!!
I don’t see this *itch being hands on like Victoria is with Harper. She already employs a team of nannies for the first kid.
Are you sure you’re talking about Gisele?
Because she rarely parades her son except for the few occasions when the paps take their photos at the park near their house, and even then she’s almost always the only one there playing with her son and with Jack when he comes to stay with them. Sometimes her sister comes with her or her relatives accompany her.
From what I read, she has a lot of siblings and a big family and they stay with her from time to time.
Never read/saw photos of a “team” of nannies taking care of her son.
Congrats to Gi and Tom. The usually choose their kids names that can have the same pronounciation in both Portuguese and English. I hope she will be as cute as Gi’s niece, Duda Bundchen.
I would like to say you pregnant women are way to hard or yourselves … Most pregnant women I see are gorgeous .. no matter how tall or short… you are carrying a life…!!!! You all look gorgeous …