The way Gisele Bundchen comforted her children after Tom Brady’s Super Bowl loss has landed her in the hot seat with some accusing the model of being patronizing.
Brady’s wife opted to use the New England Patriots’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday as a life lesson for the couple’s young children.
When the quarterback’s children – John, 10, Benjamin, 8, and five-year-old Vivian -realized the Eagles had won, Bundchen crouched down and wiped away their tears.
The way Gisele Bundchen explained Tom Brady’s Super Bowl loss to her children has landed her in the hot seat with some Twitter users accusing the model of being patronizing
‘Daddy won five times. They never won before. Their whole life, they never won a Super Bowl. You have to let someone else win sometimes,’ Bundchen explained to them, according to USA Today.
‘Sometimes you have to let other people win. We have to share. Sharing is caring.’
But the 37-year-old model’s response has left some Twitter users seething as they accused her of not teaching her children that failure happens.
Bundchen shares two children with Brady. The quarterback’s son John is from his previous relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan.
‘Gisele telling their kids ‘You have to let someone else win sometimes.’ That’s garbage parenting. Heaven forbid you teach your kids that failure happens to the best of us and that it doesn’t mean the effort wasn’t worth it,’ one person tweeted.
Brady’s wife opted to use the New England Patriots’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday as a life lesson for the couple’s young children. They are pictured above during the game
Another wrote: ‘Anybody else a little p***ed at the crap Gisele said to her kids? ‘We have to LET someone else win sometimes.’ What? They didn’t LET us win. We beat them. We EARNED it. 2nd. They aren’t SHARING with us. We TOOK it. I get what she wanted to say, but it was patronizing.’
‘Better to say, ‘they outplayed us and we congratulate them on their win. We will look forward to another season and maybe another chance next year.’ The term ‘letting them win’ sounds elitist. #superbowl,’ one tweet read.
‘Gisele (sp?) comforting her kids by telling them ‘sometimes you have to LET someone else win’ is getting praise? How is that a good thing to say?’ another person chimed in.
One tweet read: ‘You ‘have to let’ ‘someone else’ win ‘sometimes.’ Sure, ok.’
Bundchen took to Instagram on Monday morning after her husband’s Super Bowl loss to congratulate the Eagles and pay tribute to Brady.
‘Congratulations Eagles for winning the Super bowl, what a game that was!’ she wrote.
‘Congratulations Patriots for giving your best and to my love, we are incredibly proud of you because we are able to see every day all the commitment, sacrifice and hard work that you have devoted to become the best in what you do. We love you!’
She was also spotted congratulating every Eagles players she saw in the aftermath of the game, according to Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel.
‘Gisele, walking a back hallway to leave the stadium, took time to personally congratulate every Eagles player she ran into. They looked star struck,’ he tweeted.
Bundchen posted this photo prior to the game. In a separate post after the Patriots’ loss, the model congratulated the Eagles and paid tribute to her husband