Who is Gisele Bundchen's boyfriend Joaquim Valente? All about the jiu-jitsu instructor after pregnancy news

Gisele Bundchen is pregnant and expecting her first kid pinch jiu-jitsu coach Joaquim Valente, People has confirmed.

The model, 44, has been making love Joaquim since June 2023, a twelvemonth aft her divorcement from first hubby Tom Brady.

News of nan gestation has been making headlines - but who precisely is Joaquim? 

Valente is simply a jiu-jitsu coach astatine The Valente Brothers, a self-defense workplace he owns pinch his siblings Pedro and Gui Valente successful Miami.

According to their workplace website, Joaquim and his brothers were taught jiu-jitsu from their begetter earlier they moreover started walking.

The siblings began taking backstage lessons from Grandmaster Hélio Gracie, who famously developed Brazilian jiu-jitsu, astatine property two.

They besides trained connected a regular ground astatine nan Gracie Academy successful Rio de Janeiro.

The martial creation runs successful their family - 3 generations of Valentes person taken portion successful nan sport.  

Valente besides has a criminology grade from Barry University.

This will beryllium Gisele's 3rd kid and Joaquim's first - she besides shares son Benjamin Rein Brady, 14, and girl Vivian, 11, pinch her ex-husband Tom Brady. 

Gisele and Joaquim first met successful December 2021 erstwhile she sought retired jiu-jitsu training for her boy and past decided to return classes too.

In early July, nan lovebirds enjoyed a summertime picnic to Costa Rica pinch her 2 children.

She told Dust Magazine: 'Initially, I wasn't moreover considering it for myself. But erstwhile I brought [her boy Ben] to nan first people and started talking to Joaquim, I realized that it was overmuch much than aforesaid defense.'

Adding that nan jiu-jitsu accuracy willing her nan most: 'It felt very overmuch successful statement pinch what I judge successful and look for successful my life, and really I person a way to create and go nan champion type of myself.' 

The duo sparked romance rumors erstwhile they were seen together successful November 2022 successful Costa Rica, 2 weeks aft her divorcement from Tom was finalized.

Gisele denied they were romantically involved.

Despite nan questionable timeline of their relationship, Bündchen denied cheating connected her hubby of 13 years.

'That is simply a lie,' she said successful an question and reply pinch The New York Times late March, explaining that she doesn't 'want to make my life a tabloid.'

'This is thing that happens to a batch of women who get blamed erstwhile they person nan courageousness to time off an unhealthy narration and are branded arsenic being unfaithful,' explained Bündchen.

Bündchen besides confirmed her caller narration successful that aforesaid interview, though she didn't sanction Valente.

'This is nan first clip I americium seeing personification that was a friend of excavation first,' Bündchen told NYT. 'It's very different. It is very honest, and it's very transparent.'

The mates was first romantically linked connected Valentine's Day arsenic they were photographed sharing a buss during a day successful Miami. Page Six reported astatine nan clip that nan mates is 'deeply successful love.'

A root told People that Bündchen and Valente 'have been making love since June,' adding: 'They're taking it slow.'

Another insider said 'they started retired arsenic friends' and had a batch successful common, some moving from their autochthonal Brazil astatine a young age.

'He was a immense comfortableness for Gisele while she went done her divorce,' nan root said. 'Their relationship turned romanticist aft nan divorce.'

In February 2024, a root for People revealed that Gisele and Joaquim person really been making love since June 2023.