Tom Brady admitted he has “screwed up a lot” as a parent while speaking to a crowd at the Fortune Global Forum in New York City on Tuesday.
“Being a parent is probably the hardest job all of us have and we screwed up a lot and I’ve screwed up a lot as a parent,” the seven-time Super Bowl champion said.
Brady, who warned the crowd that he is no “expert in parenting,” said he simply tries to be “dependable and consistent” for his “three amazing kids.”
The former NFL star, 47, also zeroed in on raising his two teenage boys and admitted it “sucks” to be “Tom Brady’s son in so many ways,” per video obtained by TMZ.
“There’s a lot of challenges I faced as a kid … my kid naturally are going to be faced with their own challenges … and I’ll be there to support them .. and I’ll be learning along the way with them,” he confirmed.
Furthermore, Brady shouted out his parents for encouraging him as a child and simultaneously shaping how he parents.
“The blessing my parents gave me,” he recalled, “was when I was that longshot as a kid who was a backup quarterback on a freshman team, they never said, ‘Man, don’t do that. It’s going to be too hard. Let’s do something different. Let’s think about another backup plan.’”
“They kind of said, ‘You know what? Go for it. Whatever you wanna be’… and that’s probably my parenting style.”
Brady shares his 17-year-old son, Jack, with his ex-girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan.
He shares his middle child, 14-year-old Benjamin, and youngest, 11-year-old Vivian, with his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen.
Bündchen, 44, is currently expecting her third child and first with her beau, boyfriend Joaquim Valente.
Brady was shocked about her baby news, with a source telling Page Six: “Tom knew that things were serious between Gisele and Joaquim but he never imagined they would be having a child together.”
“It just wasn’t something that was on his radar. So when Gisele broke the news to him he was stunned, to say the least.”
The supermodel, meanwhile, is reportedly “excited to embrace this new chapter openly.”
