Women are fierce and always have been. And female athletes have proven that women really
can have it all, including looking amazing off the playing field with their gorgeous
partners. With that in mind, here are some female athletes with seriously gorgeous husbands.
All-time tennis great Serena Williams' husband is a gorgeous man who's quite the superstar
himself. Alexis Ohanian is a tech entrepreneur who's probably most famous for co-founding
Reddit. He's also incredibly supportive of his talented wife, so much so that he's apparently
been accused of making other husbands look bad. In 2019, he told Glamour,
"It started when I put up some billboards for my wife [...] to celebrate her first tournament
after having our daughter. [...] I made a video showcasing her journey returning to
tennis around the U.S. Open. And then there was that trip to Italy — she had a craving,
so I delivered her to Venice."
Ohanian, who tied the knot with Williams in November 2017, also noted,
"I get it; these are pretty extravagant gestures. But I think if you were to ask my wife, or
many other people in relationships, it's often the simpler things that are the most important.
You have to show up. You have to be supportive. These are the things that matter."
"This is a story of a successful man that can cheerlead a successful woman, and it is
what many, many women want out there."
Soccer superstar Alex Morgan is married to a man named Servando Carrasco , who's also
a professional soccer player. Their respective careers have at times forced them to have
a long-distance relationship, but their dedication has nevertheless remained quite strong. They
met while they were both playing college soccer at University of California, Berkeley . In
2011, Carrasco was playing for the MLS's Seattle Sounders, while Morgan was on the opposite
side of the country playing for the Western New York Flash. That same year, she competed
in her first-ever World Cup.
The couple married on New Year's Eve in 2014 and were able to live together for a couple
of years, while they both played for teams in Orlando. But then in 2018, Carrasco started
playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Despite the separation, they made it work. As he told
Pro Soccer USA in 2018,
"It's far from ideal to be that far from your wife. We know that this is temporary. We're
only going to be able to play professional soccer for five to six more years. We've got
to take advantage of this, and know that when we're done playing, we're going to be together."
Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson is happily married to NFL player Andrew East. The couple met
through East's brother, Olympic cyclist Guy East, who was convinced that the two would
be perfect together. So Guy got his brother on a plane to meet Johnson in Los Angeles
while she was competing on an all-stars edition of Dancing With the Stars. Johnson wasn't
exactly charmed at first, but East eventually won her over. As Johnson admitted to the Des
Moines Register in 2016,
"I fell head over heels, I guess."
"We talked over Twitter, and then I got her number, and then we started talking and texting."
By 2015, Johnson had moved to Nashville to be closer to East, who proposed in July of
that year. They married in 2016. As Johnson told People Magazine,
"The day was everything I hoped it would be. It was the most beautiful, perfect day a girl
could ask for."
In 2019, the couple welcomed their first child, with Johnson writing on Instagram,
"You are our everything. Welcome to the world baby girl."
Kristi Yamaguchi and her husband Bret Hedican make for an icy pair. She's a former Olympic
champion figure skater, while he's a retired NHL hockey player. They met each other at
the opening ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics, at which they were both competing, and then
they got married in 2000. Nowadays, Yamaguchi is focused on her family and her Always Dream
Foundation. In 2014, she told USA Today,
"I guess you could say that 1992 in Albertville was a pretty good experience for me. Winning
the gold opened up a lot of opportunities, other challenges that I wanted to take on
and do in my life. The first thing was touring and being able to make a career out of my
sport, skating as a professional for 10 years and enjoying that."
She then added,
"Beyond that, it was having the opportunity to start my foundation and give back, which
was something important for me and my family. I've enjoyed taking on other challenges outside
of skating, even as my main focus with my life is my family."
"And now we have two daughters. So now we're just busy, busy being Mom and Dad and running
after them."
Soccer legend Mia Hamm found her perfect match in baseball superstar Nomar Garciaparra . The
athletic couple, who've been married since 2003, have three kids together: twins Grace
and Ava and their little brother Garrett. Hamm joined the United States women's national
soccer team when she was only 15, making her the team's youngest player ever. She then
led her crew to victory in the Women's World Cup in 1991 and 1999 and to Olympic gold in
1996 and 2004. But as far as she sees it, her greatest accomplishment is being a wife
and mother. In 2017, she told Everyday Health,
"I've achieved many wonderful goals, but my family is what I'm most proud of. Having a
happy, healthy family is everything."
While Garciaparra and Hamm are encouraging their kids to play sports, they aren't exactly
forcing them to follow in their footsteps. As Hamm told Everyday Health,
"Instead of pushing them to play a specific sport, we strive for them to be physically
active, just because of all the benefits associated with [that]. We also want them to follow their
passions and dreams. And if that's not soccer or baseball, that's completely fine."
Retired WNBA superstar Lisa Leslie's husband Michael Lockwood may not fly through the air
to dunk basketballs, but he does reach for the skies in his job as a pilot. The two were
set up by a fan in what turned out to be a twist of fate. Leslie was at the airport when
she ran into a friend of her future husband. As she explained to Essence in 2009,
"He told me that he and his wife were huge fans. Then he told me he had a great guy for
me to meet and thought we'd hit it off and even said, 'You're tall; he's tall,' and I'm
thinking, I'm not trying to meet anyone. I'm single; I'm good."
Leslie may have been good on her own, but as it turned out, Lockwood brought a lot of
happiness to her life. As she told Essence,
"Michael's love for me has taught me the difference between having a man in your life versus a
boy, and I couldn't be happier for that lesson and his love."
Professional surfer Bethany Hamilton made headlines after losing an arm in a shark attack
when she was only 13. Thankfully, she's had some much happier moments since then. In 2013,
for example, she married youth minister Adam Dirks.
"Definitely the best day of my life."
"Yeah. Best day of our lives."
Hamilton's also had plenty of success in her surfing career, and in general, she's managed
to live life to the fullest. In 2015, she and Dirks competed together on The Amazing
Race, which allowed them to work on their teamwork skills in the process. As Dirks explained
to Focus on the Family,
"The main thing is communication when it comes to balancing teamwork and individuality. Even
in the small things — like opening a jar of peanut butter — I'm learning that it's
my responsibility because it's super hard for her. But then there are things like carrying
a large jug of water, and she's like, 'No, I've got this.'"
He also noted,
"I grew in my trust of Bethany throughout the race, trusting that she can handle whatever
situations may come her way and learning to trust how she deals with adversity. It was
pretty cool."
It sounds like Hamilton has found the perfect supportive partner!
Champion ice skater Tara Lipinski met her husband through work, but he's not an athlete.
Todd Kapostasy does work in the sports world, but as a producer. The two of them met when
she presented him with an award at the 2015 Sports Emmys. Lipinski, who became an analyst
after retiring from skating, says that being married to Kapostasy is the best thing that's
ever happened to her. As she told Page Six in 2018,
"I think as much as I love skating, love everything that I've accomplished, love working in television,
being married trumps all of that, and it's been really nice to have that balance."
With their busy schedules, the couple make a point of ensuring that they have quality
time together. As Lipinski told Page Six,
"We definitely block off all of our nights to spend together. I try to get done with
work as soon as I can, just because I'm so excited — I still get those butterflies
— to see Todd. Either we have a date night or we're bingeing Netflix or whatever it is."
Brandi Chastain impressed fans with her stamina on the soccer field, and she's applied that
same tenacity to her marriage. The two-time World Cup champion married Santa Clara University
soccer coach Jerry Smith in 1996, and they still look just as vibrant and attractive
as they were as newlyweds. They first met when Chastain was playing on the Santa Clara
squad. They have a son together named Jaden, while Chastain is stepmother to Smith's son
Cameron.
Chastain had a decorated and impressive career, but she's probably best known for stripping
off her jersey on the field after making the game-winning penalty kick in the final of
the 1999 Women's World Cup. Smith supports his wife's spontaneity, as he told People
Magazine in 2006,
"She lives life on the edge and does whatever she does with passion."
There's nothing like having a husband who shares your interests, which Olympic gold
medal-winning swimmer Missy Franklin can certainly attest to. In September 2019, she married
fellow swimmer Hayes Johnson. Over the course of her career in the pool, Franklin amassed
six Olympic medals and sixteen World Championship medals. Her marriage to Johnson happened a
year after she retired from the sport. She decided to hang up her suit because she was
experiencing shoulder pain so severe that she feared it would impact her ability to
play with her future children, which was clearly important to her. As she told The Telegraph
in 2019,
"It is not fashionable to say you want to be a wife and mother. To me, being a mom is
the greatest job in the world and I have known for a long time that is one of my greatest
callings. People have different religions and faiths and different priorities. I feel
very comfortable saying my priority is being a wife and a mom, while for someone else their
priority might be their career."
Retired Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki's husband is an athlete who's at home on a different
kind of court. In 2019, she married David Lee, who played professional basketball in
the NBA from 2005 to 2017. The couple had a lavish ceremony in Tuscany , Italy in June
of that year, after getting engaged in November 2017. Soon after the wedding, she told Hello!
Magazine,
"We had the best time, it was awesome [...] Obviously saying 'I Do' was very special, but I actually
think that whole day and the food was incredible. We partied all the way until four in the morning
which was perfect. We had a candy room, because I love sweets, and on the dance floor, we
had fries and candy and burgers and stuff coming out. So I think the food was also a
big highlight for us."
Because Wozniacki was training for Wimbledon at the time, she and Lee could only have a
small honeymoon, but they were thrilled just to be together. As she admitted to Hello!,
"That was kind of the tough part. But we had a little mini moon, we went on a boat for
a couple of days, which was kind of a nice calm down from the wedding."
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