Tom Brady: Ive never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that
Tom Brady didn’t get to play with the Patriots this past Sunday, because of his Deflategate suspension. But he’ll be back, and when he comes back, he still wants to be the Golden Boy. He still wants everyone to like him and aspire to be him. Which is why he was particularly talkative while promoting one of his advertising contracts, this one with UGGs. He did interviews on behalf of UGG’s Do Nothing campaign this week. Considering the bad-to-surly press that has happened around Brady in the past 18 months, it’s no wonder that he’s trying to pivot the conversation. This is honestly the most open he’s ever been about his family, his marriage, his downtime. It’s interesting. Some assorted quotes:
He’s spent his summer break traveling: “I feel like people are always coming to see us, especially when I’m in Boston for really seven months of the year. My wife travels to Brazil a lot. We spend a lot of time in Costa Rica. By the time summer’s over, it’s nice to get back to Boston and quit living out of suitcase, especially when you have kids—because the packing and unpacking gets to just be so much.”
Spending time with his kids: “I’ve had time to bring them to school and pick them up from school, put them to bed and read books. Everyone says, ‘It goes so fast! It goes so fast!’ And it does go so fast, and you enjoy these different moments that they have, because, you know—it’s only once that they get a chance to have their first day of school. To pick them up on their first day of school is so fun. Those are memories I’ll have for the rest of my life, and hopefully they’ll have them, too.”
Whether he & Gisele will have more kids: “It’s usually up to your wife, isn’t it? It’s kind of up to [her]. I never rule anything out.”
Daddy’s little girl: “I let my daughter do basically anything she wants, which is a little bit of a problem in the house. The boys I’m definitely tougher on, but it’s so hard with a little 3-year-old girl who just looks at you and smiles and she knows exactly what to say to get her dad to do exactly what she wants.”
Keeping the marriage spark alive: “It’s always evolving in relationships. Everyone who’s been married or been together for long periods of time, you grow and you find different ways to grow together. And I think it’s just always being conscious of what both people are looking for in a relationship, and fulfilling each other’s needs and supporting each other, and growing and loving each other in different ways. I think those things always evolve and change over time. Going on that journey together is an exciting part of life. You get to love people in different ways as you go through life. It changes when you’re 25 and 35 and 45. I see my parents now, who are great role models—they’re in their 70s. It’s a very cool thing to see.”
What Gisele thinks of his Bieber hair: “She’s never really said much about that. She’s never had too strong opinions one way or another. She likes it whatever it is.”
He doesn’t get why his hair changes make headlines: “There are a lot of things that get covered these days that sometimes I shake my head at. A lot of men don’t change their hair very much. A lot of men just do one thing and that’s what it is. And I’ve always felt like you can always cut your hair off. Who cares? Try different styles or whatever. Women get to do a lot of different things with their hair. Men, you can do a lot of different things. And a lot of different guys have different styles, too.”
His diet: “Do you need to eat a cheeseburger every day to realize that you love a cheeseburger? Or could you eat it once a week … or once every two weeks … or once a month … or once every two months?” Tom Brady has learned that he doesn’t love strawberries or coffee by never having tried either at all, a commitment no mortal man could ever conceive of pulling off. “I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.” Never? “Absolutely not…. I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.”
I’m sure some people will be into this. I got drawn in too, and I don’t even care about him. I thought what he said about his daughter was sweet, and I did think it was interesting to think of Brady as one of those guys who truly got married for the long haul, that he can picture himself with Gisele 30 years from now, 40 years from now. But is that who he really is? Is he the guy who is wrapped around his daughter’s little finger? Is he the guy who wants to take a decades-long journey with Gisele? Is he the guy who wants to experiment with his hair with no input from his wife? Hm.
As for never even trying strawberries… that’s odd. But then again, I’m the same way about some foods. I know I wouldn’t like them even without trying them. I can tell by the smell.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet.
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