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Gisele Bündchen chose a photo from her and Tom Brady’s 2009 wedding to celebrate her sister’s birthday amid the couple’s marital issues.
“Happy birthday to a true angel on earth!” the supermodel, 42, wrote to Graziela Bündchen via Instagram Stories on Sunday, translated from Portuguese.
“I love you so much sis!” Gisele continued, adding heart and birthday cake GIFs to the social media upload.
In the sibling snap taken in Costa Rica, Graziela wore a blue bridesmaid dress while attempting to lift the bride.
Gisele, for her part, made a silly face in her John Galliano gown.
She and Brady, 45, wed in a small Santa Monica, Calif., ceremony in February 2009 before tying the knot in front of more family members and friends two months later.
The couple, who went on to welcome son Benjamin, 12, and daughter Vivian, 9, are currrently in the middle of an “epic fight,” Page Six reported earlier this month.
“There’s been trouble in the marriage over his decision to un-retire,” a source explained of their marital woes. “Gisele has always been the one with the kids.
“They had agreed he would retire to focus on the family, then he changed his mind,” the insider continued.
Brady announced his retirement in February after winning his seventh Super Bowl — but walked back his decision just 40 days later.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback is now in the 23rd season of his NFL career.
While Gisele sent him support via Twitter ahead of his opening game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday in Texas, she reportedly did not attend.
Raising Benjamin and Vivian, as well as Brady’s son Jack, 15, from a previous relationship, has not been a “fairy tale” for the former Victoria’s Secret Angel, she admitted to British Vogue in May.
“It takes work to be really in sync with someone, especially after you have kids,” she explained.
As for Brady, he admitted last week that he struggles balancing fatherhood with his career.
“You can’t stop your life even though sports is happening,” the athlete said on the Sept. 5 episode of the “Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray” podcast.
“Even though I’m playing in my 23rd year, I have a freshman in high school that is playing football, too,” he added. “I have a 12-year-old that is going through his life. I have a 9-year-old that is going through her life.”
Although the former New England Patriots player also mentioned his parents, he noticeably did not include Gisele in his list of family members.