The setting could not have been more romantic. On November 28, Gisele Bündchen — showing off her baby bump in a bikini and lacy white cover-up — strolled hand in hand with beau Joaquim Valente, stopping to share a sweet kiss and hug on a beach near her estate in Costa Rica. “With the sun shining and the waves crashing,” a source exclusively tells In Touch, “it looked like they were in their own little paradise.”
It’s the perfect spot for a wedding. “They’re planning a low-key wedding there after the baby is born,” the source says of the supermodel and the jiujitsu instructor, who are expecting their first child together in early 2025. Gisele, who divorced Tom Brady after 13 years of marriage in 2022, “never thought she’d fall in love this quickly, but this relationship has felt easy and organic from the start,” adds an insider. “She’s entirely focused on the baby right now, so they’ll probably do
something very small and simple.”
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This won’t be her first wedding in Costa Rica. Two months after officially tying the knot in an intimate ceremony at a church in Santa Monica in February 2009, she and the NFL legend, 47, hosted a second celebration at her Central American home. “Around 40 people gathered in our open living room …. I wore a simple white slip dress. My feet were bare. The ceremony was brief,” Gisele, 44, wrote in her 2018 book, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life. “There was no formal wedding reception afterward. It was more like a free-for-all, a joyful, relaxed party, just the way I’d always imagined it would be.”
And while her groom, 37, will be different, says the source, Gisele’s second wedding will be “quite similar — she’ll wear a dress with a sexy beachy vibe.” But this time, there will probably be more nods to their shared Brazilian heritage. “The ceremony will be mostly in Portuguese, and she wants a brigadeiro-inspired cake,” the source says of the chocolate confection that is famous in her home country.
Their loved ones will be there, of course. “She’ll fly all of their immediate family members in from Brazil,” says the source, adding that her kids with Tom — Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 12 — “will be part of the wedding. She’d love to have Jack there, too,” the source adds of Tom’s son with Bridget Moynahan, whom Gisele has known since he was born. “The kids adore Joaquim because they see how happy he makes their mom.”
That’s obvious to everyone who knows her. “Having another baby is truly a dream come true for her,” the insider says, adding that after the “embarrassing, high-profile split from Tom,” which was infamously mocked at his Comedy Central roast, “Gisele has been enjoying life under the radar. She’s focusing on keeping herself and her kids happy and healthy. It was a rough few years, but Joaquim really helped her through them, and she’s looking forward to their future together.”