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Santa baby.
Gisele Bündchen bared her baby bump during a beach trip with her boyfriend Joaquim Valente on Christmas Eve.
The Brazilian supermodel, 44, wore a skimpy bikini as she waded in the surf with the jujitsu instructor and her family on the shores of Costa Rica.
Valente opted for knee-length board shorts as he enjoyed the sunshine with Bündchen and her family. The former Victoria’s Secret angel was accompanied by her German Shepherd, Alfie.
This isn’t the first Costa Rica beach vacation for the lovebirds who are expecting their first child together.
The couple were previously spotted strolling on the sand in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, on Thanksgiving Day.
The Central American country appears to be one beloved by Bündchen, as it’s where she and ex-husband Tom Brady, 47, held their second wedding ceremony.
The exes, who married in 2009 and divorced in 2022, share two kids, Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 11. Brady has another child, son John “Jack” Edward, 17, whom he shares with his former flame Bridget Moynahan.
News broke that Bündchen and Valente were expecting their first child in October, two years after she and Brady divorced.
Bündchen and Valente met when her son Benjamin began taking jujitsu lessons with the martial arts instructor at his academy.
“Initially, I wasn’t even considering it for myself,” the model told Dust Magazine in 2022 about studying jujitsu. “But when I brought [my son] to the first class and started talking to Joaquim, I realized that it was much more than self-defense.”
Rumors that the couple were dating first surfaced after another Costa Rica trip they took, this one in November 2022 — one month after Bündchen’s divorce from Brady. The Brazilian beauty brought her two kids along for the getaway, but her romance with Valente reportedly didn’t start until June 2023.
Former NFL superstar Brady was left “stunned” after learning of his ex’s pregnancy.
In November, one month after it was revealed she was expecting her third child, Brady posted a quote on social media from Theodore Roosevelt about “failing” and “coming short,” which many read as referring to his marriage with Bündchen.
That same month, Brady publicly admitted that he “screw up a lot as a parent.”
“All of the parents of the room know that being a parent is probably the hardest job all of us have and we screw up a lot, and I’ve screwed up a lot as a parent,” the 7-time Super Bowl champ told a crowd at the Fortune Global Forum in New York City on Nov. 12.