As you may have heard, Gisele Bundchen gave birth Tuesday night to a baby boy. Her mom and her twin sister were there too, so that’s nice. Gisele and Tom Brady haven’t released the name of their son yet, because they didn’t have any names picked out. Tom admitted as much to the press, saying, “I don’t have any picks, so we haven’t really chosen one yet. But everyone is great. Everyone is doing really well.” But… I thought Tom already knew they were having a boy? Didn’t he have a few names that he was thinking of? I still don’t get it. In addition to Tom‘s musings, a source also told People Magazine: “Gisele is absolutely thrilled. Why shouldn’t she be? She has a beautiful healthy boy! She wants a big family like the one she came from and now is her time. That’s what she’s always wanted most.” I don’t get why this source had to remain unnamed for that comment, it sounds like the kind of innocuous comment that you could easily put your name on. Anyway, that’s not the point of the story.

After Tom spoke to the press, his ex-girlfriend (and mother of his first child, 2-year-old Jack) Bridget Moynahan gave her statement to the press. Was it a brief, courteous “congratulations to the happy family”? Not exactly. I’ll tell you the truth, when I first read this, I thought “what’s lodged up Bridget’s ass?” But now that I’ve re-read it a few times, maybe it’s not that bad:

Now that Tom Brady is a father for the second time, his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, the mother of his 2-year-old Jack, is offering her congratulations.

“I wish [Tom and Gisele] the best with their baby,” the actress, 38, tells PEOPLE in a statement. “I’m sure my son will enjoy having a half-sibling. I ask the press to respect our privacy while we are welcoming this new addition to our extended family.”

Bündchen, sources say, is currently recovering with her mother Vania and sister Patricia by her side, after delivering the baby boy Tuesday night.

Brady said on Wednesday that the couple have not yet picked a name for their newborn son.

[From People]

It’s curt, right? Like “okay, whatever, congratulations, now leave me alone.” Were people calling Bridget all day asking for her reaction? Is that why she added the “I ask the press to respect our privacy” bit? Because if journalists were calling her all day, maybe I can understand that. But I still think it might have been classier to issue a one sentence quickie congrats, something like, “I am very happy for Tom and Gisele and their new baby, Mazel Tov!” That’s what I would have done.

Bridget Moynahan on March 8, 2009 in LA. Credit: WENN. Tom and Gisele on May 4 in New York.

A few weeks ago, Star Magazine reported a funny (and probably false) story that Bridget Moynahan bought a passive-aggressive baby gift for Gisele Bundchen. The crux of the story was that Bridget didn’t want to shell out a lot of cash for Gisele, so she went into a baby store and bought a $20 outfit and complained about it to whoever would listen. Bridget and Gisele’s history is long and sordid, suffice to say that I get the impression that Gisele is a very effusive woman, even with people who can’t stand her, and Bridget can hold a grudge like nobody’s business.

It looks like things are turning around for Gisele and Bridget though - according to a new report from Star. They claim Bridget is giving Gisele “mothering advice” as the two women “gabbed for more than three hours” at Bridget’s home:

Gisele Bundchen is getting mothering advice from the unlikeliest of people: her husband’s ex!

Bridget Moynahan has put any bitterness aside to help Tom Brady’s new lady enter the world of mommy hood. The two women gabbed for more than three hours at Bridget’s Pacific Palisades, California home on July 2.

“Gisele had been reaching out to Bridget for some time now, with little success,” an insider tells Star. “But Bridget finally realized it was time to set aside their differences for the sake of the kids.”

The power to forgive is important in a mom!

[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 10, 2009]

I’d argue that the power to forgive is important for everyone, not just mothers, but whatever. I kind of hope this story is true, even if it means there will be no more Gisele versus Bridget tabloid stories. It shows both women are very mature, which I kind of suspect anyway. I really wonder what they were talking about - breastfeeding? Nannies? Binkies? Or Tom’s penis size?

Header image is of Bridget Moynahan on 6/18/08. Credit: WENN.com. Gisele is shown on 5/6/09. Credit: PRPhotos. Image below is of Gisele on 7/10/09.

It’s no secret that there is absolutely no love lost between Bridget Moynahan and Gisele Bundchen. We can fight about who left, who got pregnant and for what purpose, sketchy timelines, all of it. But at the end of the day, here’s what we know: Tom Brady and Bridget share a son, John, now 2 years old. Fact: Gisele is pregnant with her first child, with Tom Brady. Fact: Gisele is a little too effusive when describing her relationship with baby John. Fact: Gisele has referred to John as “my child” and has called herself John’s “adoptive mother”. Here’s what else we know: Bridget’s friends run to the press with lots of bitchy comments. Stuff like Gisele is “desperate for attention” and “discretion and respect are not either of Gisele or Tom’s virtues”.

So perhaps it was never going to be one big happy family. But they’re trying, y’all! Bridget is attempting to passively-aggressively bury the hatchet now that Gisele is knocked up - by buying Gisele’s unborn child a $20 outfit:

“What do you buy your ex’s pregnant new wife?” Bridget Moynahan quipped at Wonderland baby store in Brentwood, CA on July 2.

The actress - whose former squeeze Tom Brady is expecting a little one with his new missus, supermodel Gisele Bundchen - said she didn’t want to spend much on a gift.

“Bridget settled on a neutral-colored outfit that cost around $20,” a source tells Star. “But she acted like even that was too much!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, July 27 2009]

Haha, Bridget is so cold! It would have been awesome if Bridget just gave Gisele one of John’s old binkies. Bridget would have arched her eyebrow and quipped with a straight face, “Suck on that, Gisele.” No, in all honesty, I get it. I wouldn’t blame Bridget if she didn’t want to get Gisele and Tom anything for the new baby. But going the cheap route is pretty funny. Perhaps Bridget let John barf on the outfit before she gift-wrapped it.

Bridget Moynahan is shown on 3/8/09. Gisele Bunchen is shown on 6/15/09. Credit: WENN.com

I was really looking forward to reporting on the rumors of Gisele Bundchen’s pregnancy, but alas, Gisele’s husband Tom Brady denied the pregnancy rumors Thursday night after a practice session with the New England Patriots. Apparently an Associated Press journalist waltzed right up to Tom and was all “So, dude, is your wife knocked up?” And Tom was all “No.” And then Tom added, “One is enough.” Ouch. Take that Gisele, with your biological clock and stuff.

Unfortunately for Tom “One Is Enough” Brady, many gossipy sources have Gisele coming to the end of her first trimester. Which would have meant that she was already pregnant before she and Tom Brady married in April… which I don’t buy. I think Gisele is traditional in the way that she would wait to get pregnant until after she gets married Just my opinion. So, by my rationale, Gisele is at most two months pregnant, if that. In which case it would be silly for Gisele or Tom to confirm the pregnancy - traditionally, you don’t announce until the end of third month, or into the fourth.

So let’s play the game - say Tom was just denying the pregnancy for the hell of it, but Gisele really was less than two months pregnant. If that was/is the case, then this report from In Touch is really juicy. Not only do they have Gisele’s pregnancy cravings (pizza), they have a really bitchy quote from an unnamed friend of Bridget Moynahan. Apparently, it’s totally a catfight over everything between Bridget and Gisele - ever since Gisele called Bridget’s son “my child” and Bridget sent all of her friends out to bash Gisele. Now Bridget’s getting nasty about how Tom isn’t man enough to tell her about Gisele’s pregnancy face-to-face or something:

Gisele Bundchen has gotten plenty of practice with her husband Tom Brady’s son, John, but she’ll soon become a mom for real!

The supermodel and the New England quarterback told their families that they are expecting their first child together.

“Gisele is about three months along and over the moon about it because this is all she’s ever wanted,” says a family insider.

“Tom is equally happy and making sure she has anything she needs. She’s been craving pizza and eating it like crazy. They haven’t decided if they’re going to find out the sex but don’t care either way. Everyone is so happy about it.”

But they didn’t exactly break the news the right way to Bridget Moynahan, Tom’s ex-girlfriend and the mother of his 21-month-old son.

“Bridget found out about Gisele’s pregnancy through someone else,” says a friend of the actress’. “Any man not willing to make a call to tell an ex that his current wife is pregnant is not right.”

But no one is going to take away the 28-year-old Brazilian beauty’s happiness.

“I would like a big family. I love children,” Gisele, who wed Tom in February, has said. “This is why you get married - you want to create those roots together. You want to give that to your kids.”

[From In Touch, print edition, June 9 2009]

“Any man not willing to make a call to tell an ex that his current wife is pregnant is not right.” Uh… maybe that didn’t come straight from Bridget, maybe it did. But am I alone in thinking that if and when Gisele does get pregnant, it’s none of Bridget’s business? Yes, it will affect Bridget in as much as she lets her son spend time with his father and his father’s wife, but Bridget doesn’t get a say or any kind of first notification on the state of Gisele’s womb.

Tom and Gisele are shown at the Costume Institute Gala on 5/3/09 and outside an OB/GYN on 5/4/09. Credit: Fame Pictures and WENN.com

On Monday, Vanity Fair released an interview with model Gisele Bundchen that was fairly explosive. Bundchen didn’t seem capable of censoring herself or using the slightest bit of tact or discretion. In it, she said her baby stepson (the child of her husband Tom Brady and his ex-girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan) is 100 percent her own, amongst other shockingly insensitive claims.

In Vanity Fair, Bundchen not only said John was “100 percent her child,” she added: “It’s not like because somebody else delivered him, that’s not my child. I love him the same way as if he were mine. I already feel like he’s my son, from the first day . . . He’s my little angel — the sweetest, most cuddly, loving baby. I feel blessed to have him in my life. I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that. But to me, it’s not like because somebody else delivered him, that’s not my child — I feel it is, 100 percent.”

[From Page Six]

Bridget hasn’t dignified Giselle’s statements with a response, but her friends say she’s furious at the model’s audacious presumptuousness.

BRIDGET Moynahan is furious with Gisele Bundchen after Bundchen boldly bragged to Vanity Fair about being mommy to Moynahan and Tom Brady’s son, John. But while Moynahan is taking the high road and keeping quiet, her friends are not.

One close pal told Page Six, “If Gisele loved Bridget’s child like he was ‘100 percent her own,’ then she would not talk about him in the press. Discretion and respect are not either of Gisele or Tom’s virtues, as was evidenced even when the child was still unborn and they publicly flaunted their relationship without any discretion whatsoever.”

Brady and Moynahan broke up before the “Lord of War” star learned she was pregnant and he began dating Bundchen. Moynahan gave birth to John on Aug. 22, 2007.

Moynahan’s friend continued: “Don’t you think Jack will grow up and read her comments and find them disrespectful to him and his mother? If Tom is such a great father as everyone likes to say, then you would think that he’d respect the privacy of his young child and would ask his wife not to use his son as a publicity prop and a subject of public discussion. Is she is so desperate for attention that she can’t find anything more productive to talk about other than Bridget’s child?”

Moynahan’s friend also quipped, “Hey Gisele — real mothers don’t call their kids ‘it.’” Moynahan’s rep declined to comment.

[From Page Six]

A lot of people responded to the original story by saying Gisele was just trying to show how much she loves John and that she doesn’t consider him less important to her for being a stepson instead of her biological child. I think her language is too strong and emphatic for that.

The 100 percent her child thing is just way over the line, mostly because it’s absolutely untrue. John is 100 percent Bridget and Tom’s child. And frankly, that must be a little painful for a newlywed. There is this beautiful, happy baby boy in her life, and he belongs to her husband and his ex-girlfriend. Perhaps Gisele copes with it by trying to maximize her own relationship with John. But in so doing, she also dramatically minimized Bridget.

Here’s Bridget Moynahan taking John Edward for a walk in Pacific Palisades last Thursday. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.

Is Gisele Bundchen so beautiful that no one ever corrects her? She gave an interview to Vanity Fair, and OK! Magazine has some early quotes. They are not flattering. Gisele says that she loves John Edward Thomas Moynahan - Tom Brady’s love child with Bridget Moynahan - “as if he were mine.” She also calls John “my child” and mentions that she “already [felt] like he’s my son, from the first day.” Yikes.

Back in late 2006, Tom Brady pretty much dumped his newly pregnant girlfriend (Bridget) when Gisele came along, and by many accounts, there was some overlap in the two relationships. Part of the problem is that I have always felt really bad for Bridget throughout this whole situation. She’s a beautiful, classy woman, and I think she’s done the best she could with a really uncomfortable situation. OK! has more from Gisele:

Now that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady have tied the knot, it seems the supermodel is more than ready to stake her claim on his love child with ex Bridget Moynahan.

The newlywed says she feels that John Edward Moynahan is hers, telling Vanity Fair, “I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that. But to me, it’s not like because somebody else delivered him, that’s not my child – I feel it is, 100 percent.”

Bridget gave birth to John in 2007 (and appeared on the cover of OK!) and by then her former boyfriend, Patriots quarterback Tom, had moved on to Gisele’s loving arms. She’s never met the Brazilian beauty.

“I want him to have a great relationship with his mom, because that’s important, but I love him the same way as if he were mine. I already feel like he’s my son, from the first day,” Gisele reveals in the interview.

“He’s a little angel – the sweetest, most cuddly, loving baby. I feel blessed to have him in my life,” she adds.

That little angel was a shock at first for Gisele, who had been dating Tom before they found out his ex was expecting.

“It was definitely a surprise for both of us,” she says. “In the beginning, you’re living this romantic fantasy; you’re thinking this can’t be true, it’s so good! And then, whoops – wake-up call!”

Your move, Bridget!

[From OK! Magazine]

Yeah, I’m sure it was a huge “wake-up call” for Gisele that she was dating a man who just unceremoniously dumped his girlfriend. So, how much of this is being taken out of context? I actually understand what Gisele is basically trying to say - that she has a great, loving relationship with her stepson. But the way she says it seems like she’s trying to out-mother Bridget. It’s all very The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, with Gisele cast in the Rebecca DeMornay role.

Here’s Gisele and Tom spending time with her family on their honeymoon in Brazil on March 15th. Images thanks to WENN .

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, arguably the most famous player in NFL football, is out for the entire year after tearing the ACL in his left knee in the first game of the season. Bad luck, right? Did anyone check if his ex, actress Bridget Moynahan, has a Brady voodoo doll with a pin through the knee?

According to In Touch, Bridget may try not to publicly badmouth Brady, but that’s not the case with the sport he plays.

To recap: Brady and Bridget dated for 3 years, but broke up late in 2006. Shortly after, Bridget confirmed she was pregnant with Tom’s baby and Tom went public with his relationship with Giselle Bundchen, arguably the most famous supermodel in the world. Bridget gave birth to a baby boy named John Edward Thomas Moynahan on August 22, 2007.

At the time, there was talk that Bridget was bitter because she gave her son her surname with no reference to “Brady,” but Tom’s full name is Thomas Edward Brady Jr., so apparently she just switched his first and middle name around.

Recent pictures showed Tom, Gisele and John playing in the park, and Tom has reportedly bought property in Brentwood, California, to be closer to where Bridget is raising their son, so it appears that all the adults in John’s life are at least trying to be civil for the baby’s sake.

However, don’t expect Bridget and John to spend Sundays watching Daddy play football. Bridg et Moynahan hates football, and she’s not shy about saying so.

Out of respect for the child they share, Bridget Moynahan keeps quiet about her feelings for her ex, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, but she can’t hide her disdain for his sport. Bridget, 37, was shopping at Tales & Toys in Venice, Calif., on September 14 with a friend and her 13-month-old son, John. “One of the sales clerks jokingly asked, ‘So, you ladies aren’t watching Sunday football?’” an insider recounts to In Touch. “Bridget looked disgusted and replied, ‘We hate football.’”

[From In Touch, print edition, October 6, 2008]

Unless the clerk didn’t recognize Bridget, it’s sort of a bitchy question to ask her, which may explain Bridget’s response.

Once Bridget starts dating and working again, she may be less passive-aggressive. Or she may enroll John in ballet class rather than pee-wee football. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Bridget is scheduled to make a guest appearance on Eli Stone this season.

Bridget Moynahan is shown out walking Thomas on 2/3/08. Credit: SKIPPY/bauergriffinonline.com. She is also shown looking fabulous at the Cartier Charity Love Bracelet Launch on 6/18/08. Credit: Adriana M. Barraza / WENN

Bridget Moynahan at the premiere of “Noise” on 11/7/07, thanks to Splash
Since her breakup with New England Patriot Tom Brady and her decision to have his child post-breakup, actress Bridget Moynahan has kept pretty quiet about the details of her life as a single mom- until now. In her new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Moynahan gives us some insight into how she really felt about being pregnant alone while her ex was frolicking with Gisele Bundchen. I’ll give you a hint: it sucked!

The first thing Bridget Moynahan did when she returned home from the hospital last August with her newborn son, John, was cry. Uncontrollably.

She had dated Brady for three years, but in February 2007 she found herself in a complicated situation. She was three months pregnant with his child but no longer in a relationship with him. Though she says, “There’s no reason why my son years down the line would need to read anything [personal] about his mother or his father,” it’s common knowledge that Brady has since moved on with Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, 27. Meanwhile, Moynahan is raising her son alone (though Brady does spend time with Jack).

“When you’re suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you’re in your 30s, it’s a hard conversation. I’m a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that’s the way I’d be doing this,” she says. “For a moment, it was hard for me to accept that this was the way I was going to have a family.”

She gave birth to John – whom she gave her last name – last August. “I walk in and just started sobbing,” she says of coming home alone with her son. “All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It’s frightening.”

But having family and friends like I, Robot costar Will Smith rally around her, made it easier. “I got so much out of that,” she says of that “traumatic time of being heartbroken” and pregnant. “It’s golden and it’s tough and it was f—ed up. But now I have a child, and it’s the best thing in the world.”

[From Harper's online]

As a single mom, I know that sometimes, when you are worn down and doing everything yourself, you do get resentful of the absentee father, who skipped out on all the hard parts of being a parent. It doesn’t seem fair sometimes. I have a lot of respect for Bridget. It would be easy for her to trash Tom Brady in the media, and she refuses to do so for her son’s sake. It’s too bad other celebs can’t show the same restraint for their children’s benefit. Some day, little John (who looks exactly like his dad, by the way) is going to be old enough to ask questions about the situation between his parents, and his mom will have the benefit of being able to tell him the truth without a bunch of old media clipping haunting her.

New dad and NFL star Tom Brady and his girlfriend, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, may be on the outs. The two were seen having a public spat in NY over lunch, with Gisele walking out, looking pissed.

The pair were dining at Extra Virgin in New York City when things turned sour on October 8. “She was clearly more upset than he was,” says an eyewitness. “She got up from the table and stormed out, leaving him sitting there.”

[From In Touch, print edition, November 5, 2007]

Along with that argument, there’s more evidence that Bundchen is upset with Brady. She is said to be livid over the fact that he sent flowers to his ex girlfriend and the mother of his baby, Bridget Moynahan. Bundchen is even said to have called Brady a “wuss” over the incident and to have postponed their planned wedding:

The couple’s relationship has been strained since the New England Patriots quarterback began having a “sudden attack of conscience” about breaking up with former girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, who gave birth to his son, John, in August, say sources.

Gisele berated Tom for his concern about Bridget, calling him a “wuss!”

“First, Tom told Gisele that he was upset about Bridget doing an interview about having their child because she didn’t tell him about it. Then, Gisele discovered that Tom sent Bridget flowers congratulating her on the article! a close source told The Enquirer…

Since the indicent, Gisele, 27, has been furious with 30-year-old Tom.

The two have put their plans for a winter wedding in Rome on hold, says the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, November 5, 2007]

The article goes on to talk about the same “screaming match” that In Touch reported, citing Gawker as the source.

The Enquirer mentioned that Tom sent Bridget flowers after the OK! article, and it may have been as a thank you to her. Bridget didn’t do an interview with OK! and just agreed to pose for pictures. Maybe Tom was grateful for that, and sent her the flowers because he was relieved she didn’t dish any dirt on him.

Gisele Bundchen is not know for being a super nice person, and maybe some of the luster has gone out of her relationship with Tom. Now that the dust is settling, he might be realizing that he had a pretty good thing with the mother of his child and that he gave it up for another gorgeous woman with a less gracious personality.

Header picture is an older one of Tom and Gisele together.

Update: We were wrong about Gisele’s personality, according to one anonymous tipster. She said that if we wanted to pick on someone we should chose Madonna, because she is definitely full of shit, but Gisele is super nice:

Just wanted to know where you get your info…I read an article where you stated Giselle is not known to be a nice person. i have worked with her, numerous times, and everyone LOVES her. She is super nice, down to earth, doesn’t act like a model and talks to everybody.

The bitchiest person, is Madonna…even though she trumphets [sic] BS PR about how wonderful she is.

Sorry Gisele! We’re just jealous that you’re so gorgeous and that your boyfriend is awesome. We are striving not to talk smack about people who don’t deserve it, and it seems like you definitely don’t. You also dated Leonardo DiCaprio, which makes us extra catty.

Tom Brady’s got a lot of complications in his life right now. His baby mama hates him (we assume). His model girlfriend is also a model bitch (we assume… just from general reports about her character over the last several years). He lives and plays football in Boston, but his new baby lives and eats his own feet in Los Angeles. What’s a man to do? Complain about it to People, all while showing the world that you’re rallying, and also a really great father, even if it is from 3,000 miles away.

“Three weeks into fatherhood and two weeks into football season, Tom Brady has a personal problem to tackle: balancing his schedule between playing with the New England Patriots and seeing his infant son, who is home in Los Angeles with his mom, Bridget Moynahan. ‘I kind of cuddled him like a football,’ the 6′4″ triple Super-Bowl-winning quarterback, 30, tells the new issue of Sports Illustrated about John Edward Thomas Moynahan, who was born Aug. 22.

“‘I’d love to be out there all the time, year-round, but it’s hard to make that a reality,’ the Boston-based Brady says about L.A., where the baby’s mom (and Brady’s ex-girlfriend) lives and works. ‘I live here,’ explains the athlete. ‘But I’ll start lobbying for off days throughout the year.’

“And while SI columnist Rick Reilly harps on Brady’s hunky good looks that make him such a babe magnet (who just happens to be dating the $33-million-a-year Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen), the quarterback does confess to the magazine, ‘I was the little sports nerd in high school who hardly had a girlfriend!’”

[From People]

Um, Tom Brady? If you really loved your kid, you’d move to Los Angeles. They have a great team, the Los Angeles Avengers. Never head of them? Me either, but I think that if you really love your kid, you’ll leave the all mighty Patriots and play for them. Let’s see if Gisele sticks around then. I kid, I kid about the moving. I don’t know a thing about the football, or the sports in general - I’m a writer, pasty is my religion. I believe I once heard it involves the skin of pigs, which sounds faintly cult-esq and ritualistic. But I know that Mondays are your high holy days, and your Christmas is some day in February that you think is really super, and you play your game in a giant bowl. If I’m even half right, it’s probably a good thing you’re not around your kid a lot.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Tom Brady and Bridget Moynahan are shown at the Costume Institute Gala in May, 2005 thanks to PRPhotos.