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Gisele Bündchen was absent from the 2024 Met Gala on Monday, May 6. The 43-year-old model was scheduled to walk the red carpet at the Costume Institute fundraiser, but she broke fans’ hearts when she didn’t show up to fashion’s biggest night. This would have been her second time attending the event since her divorce Tom Brady46, in 2022.
Even though I stayed home the big night, PEOPLE reported the reason was simple: “She’s busy with her family down in Miami.”
“She has a very full life and is very busy with her children,” an insider told the outlet on Tuesday, May 7. “She also worked more in the last year than in the last 20 years.” She has so many projects; She worked all the time. She has worked tirelessly over the past week to help her home state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which is suffering from the most devastating flood on record. She has family there and is full of worries.”
Her absence came just a day after her ex-husband was jokingly burned by friends during the Netflix series “The Roast of Tom Brady.”
Last year, Gisele attended the Met Ball alone for the first time since her divorce from Tom in a striking white dress. Gisele had made her Met Gala debut in the mid-90s when she was an aspiring supermodel. She visited the NFL star regularly throughout his career and the couple had many memorable moments at the event, and Gisele had plenty of great outfits with her then-husband.
Earlier this year, Gisele opened up about her divorce from Tom in a tearful interview with Robin Roberts. In a trailer for the interview, she had to briefly interrupt the interview because she became emotional. Gisele revealed that she was very open about what she was looking for. “Everything I’ve experienced has made it clear to me what I want and what I don’t want. …Where my heart is now is where I am right now. I live my truth and make no apologies for it,” she said. “At the end of the day, if you’re not honest with who you are, it doesn’t work.”
The 2024 Met Gala also takes place about a month after the release of her new cookbook. nourish, March. At the time, the model expressed in an Instagram post how much she was looking forward to the publication of the book. “I’m thrilled to launch my cookbook Nourish in Brazil and have an inspiring conversation about health, nutrition and wellness with Angélica, Taís e Sílvia. Thank you girls for being with me on this special day and thank you to all the other women who were there,” she wrote.