Tom Brady seems to have it all: Four Super Bowl rings, movie-star looks, and an international supermodel for a wife in Gisele Bundchen.

But when you marry someone that famous, sometimes you have to share the spotlight. In Brazil, for example, Tom Brady isn't Tom Brady -- he's only known as Gisele Bundchen's husband.

Even when he wins his fourth Super Bowl.


This isn't the first time an athlete's wife has overshadowed the athlete himself. When NHL player Mike Fisher was traded to the Predators in 2011, The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville referred to him as "Carrie Underwood's husband."

In fairness, Brady has nothing to complain about. American football is such a sports footnote in Brazil that, unless Gisele is somehow attached, it wouldn't receive more than a passing mention. Even as it stands, the Super Bowl results did no better than the third page of that newspaper's sports section.

Plus, prominent women have their identities absorbed by their partner all the time when they're married to American stars -- even when they have strong reputations on their own. Just ask Amal Alamuddin.

You might know her better as George Clooney's wife.

Tom Brady And Gisele Bundchen

 

Tom And Gisele

At the Costume Institute Gala celebrating 'Superheroes:Fashion and Fantasy' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the 'Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the Costume Institute Gala Benefit to celebrate the opening of the 'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At Celtics-Pistons playoff game in Boston.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the 'Charles James/Beyond Fashion' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

Son Benjamin visits training camp.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the 'Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the 'Charles James/Beyond Fashion' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the Costume Institute Gala for the 'PUNK: Chaos to Couture' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the 'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At 'The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the Costume Institute Gala for the 'PUNK: Chaos to Couture' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

 

Tom And Gisele

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

 

Tom And Gisele

Biking in Boston.

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