Gisele Bundchen makes more money than Tom Brady
On Monday, the same day that she joined the Ice Bucket Challenge and looked stunning while doing so, Forbes revealed Bundchen was the world’s highest-paid model of 2013-2014 — earning a whopping $47 million before taxes.
According to Forbes, Tom Brady, Bundchen’s Patriot-anchoring, football-playing husband, made $31.3 million. That’s right, Bundchen out-earned her man by about $16 million. [Boston.com]
At this rate, Bundchen will soon be able to "f--king throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time," another area in which Brady has come up short.
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