Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen are not onlyreally, really, really ridiculously good looking, but alsoridiculouslyrich.
Yes, this super couple has a combined net worth of over half abilliondollars.
In other words, a nearly unfathomable amount of money.
Just let that sink in.
So, how did these two lovebirds manage to amass a much larger fortune than their peers?
The short answer: their fingers are in many,manypies.
Here’s the details behind their gargantuan nest egg.
Brady’s NFL career first began in the year 2000.
That year, the quarterback earned a salary of $231,500, according to spotrac.com (viaForbes).
By 2006, the same yearBrady met Bundchen, the football star earned a paycheck of $16 million.
It’s hard to imagine that Brady could ever make more than that but that’s what happened.
That must’ve been a mistake, right?
In fact,his average annual salaryin 2018 was less thanhalfof what he made in 2016.
If you’re wondering how this could be, it all comes down to the NFL’s pay system.
Across the league,teams' salaries are capped.
That’s right, Brady could have been even richer.
Each season,32 teamsset their sights on the championship game, but only two will end up making it.
Some seriously great players havenevermade it to the big game.
Despite the high honor of playing in a Super Bowl, there’s not much money involved relatively speaking.
With Brady’s nine Super Bowl appearances and six wins,money.comcalculated his earnings to be about $661,000.
Yes, chump change for someone like Brady.
Hmm, okay then.
You do you, Tommy Boy, you do you.
While that’s certainly nothing to scoff at, Bundchen’s net worth is ahem $400 million.
Together, these figures add up to the couple’s joint net worth as reported byBusiness Insider.
For 14 years,Bundchen was the world’s highest-earning supermodel.
It wasn’t until 2017, whenKendal Jennertook the lead, that Bundchen’s supermodel salary was surpassed.
According toForbes, Bundchen “had a quieter year.”
After tracking Bundchen’s income over the years,Forbesestimated her earnings to total $386 million by 2014.
In that year alone, Bundchen received $47 million in take-home pay.
As the publication reported, that’s over $128,000perday.
But that was 2014, you might say.
According toForbes' list of highest-paid models in 2018, Bundchen took home just $10 million.
In April 2015, Bundchen took to Instagram to announce her retirement.
Despite retiring,she remained the highest-paid modelfor the remainder of 2015 andallof 2016.
Even after Bundchen was inevitably dethroned, she’s still been able to stand her ground.
In 2018,her incomewas on par with one of the biggest names in the industry: Cara Delevingne.
Bundchen also out-earned model-sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid, as well as Joan Smalls and Doutzen Kroes.
She doesn’t walk the runway anymore, but she does still work with major brands includingher own.
Before retiring, the former model increased her income stream by launchingher own intimatesandskincarelines.
Post-retirement, Bundchen is still contracted with both Chanel and Carolina Herrera, according toForbes.
Bundchen has also done campaigns forGivenchyandRosa Cha.
Bundchen’s main priority these days, though, is taking care of her family.
In an interview withGood Morning America(viaE!
Well,oneof them has.
In 2016,Brady released a $200 cookbook, er, “nutrition manual.”
But don’t gettoomad at Bundchen’s sales.
Unlike her famous hubby, the former supermodeldonated the proceedsfrom both books to charity.
