Tom Brady, best known as the quarterback for the New England Patriots and husband to supermodel Gisele Bundchen, has ascended from professional athlete to certified celebrity. Given the tabloid scrutiny of all aspects of Brady’s life, many people might be wondering how he and his wife stay in shape and whether or not Tom Brady is a vegan.
Tom Brady is not quite a vegan. The football superstar eats a plant-based diet most of the year, but includes protein when needed. However, Brady’s diet is much more restrictive than the average plant-based fare in which most vegetarians and vegans partake.
Read more below to learn more about Tom Brady’s career, his intense diet and workout routine, and how his wife convinced him to adopt plant-based eating.
Brady and Bundchen: A Love Story
Tom Brady is arguably the best quarterback of all time. Drafted to the NFL in 2000, Brady played 20 seasons with the New England Patriots, leading the team to six Super Bowl victories during his storied career.
Along the way, Brady met the world’s most famous supermodel, Gisele Bundchen. The golden couple met through friends in 2006 and married in 2009, ultimately hosting two wedding ceremonies.
Plant-Based Eating and the Environment
Given both Brady and Bundchen have high-profile jobs in the public eye, both kept strict diets and exercise regimes, but it was Bundchen who introduced mostly plant-based eating into their lifestyle. Bundchen, who grew up in Brazil, is heavily invested in environmentalism, and the destruction of her native country’s famed rainforest prompted the model to seek ways she and her family could make small environmental impacts.
Vegan and vegetarian eating is considered one of the major ways an everyday person can help clean up the environment. The production of livestock leaves a far greater, and more detrimental, impact on the environment than growing crops.
Though Brady initially struggled with the switch to mostly vegetable-fare, Bundchen claims the pro football star is now on board, saying, “In the beginning he was like, it was a little, you know, different for him. But now he loves it, and he wouldn’t have it any other way, because he feels better.” Not only that, but Brady embraced the new diet so much that he eventually wrote a book about it.
