\n<\/p>\n
By the time Tom won his first Super Bowl with the New England Patriots in 2004, he’d entered a new relationship with Bridget Moynahan<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n And as the Blue Bloods<\/em> star and the athlete posed for photos at glamorous events like the Met Gala and Oscar parties, they seemed like the picture-perfect couple.<\/p>\n “I can be myself around her, and there’s not many people I can be myself around,” Tom said in a 2005 60 Minutes<\/em><\/a> interview. “It’s fun to be around your best friends who know you well, and she’s someone that I consider one of my very best friends.”<\/p>\n Not long after, Tom met Gisele B\u00fcndchen<\/strong><\/a>. And as their relationship was beginning, he learned that Bridget was pregnant with his child<\/a>\u2014leading to a media frenzy.<\/p>\n “I would have cars following me, and men hiding in the bushes outside my house,” she recalled to People<\/em><\/a> in 2019. “As a new mother, you want to just protect your child. That kind of attention felt like a threat.”<\/p>\n