15 Athletes Who Nabbed Model Wives

Tom Brady and Gisele

There is something to be said about being a professional athlete and a supermodel. They’re some of the most confident people in the world, and they seem to attract one another like no one else. It takes a strong person to be married to a pro athlete with women throwing themselves all over them in cities around the world, a busy travel schedule and a lot of peer pressure. The same can be said of anyone with a supermodel. These are the women who are the most desired in the world, and men need to be very confident to date someone that everyone wants. These athletes managed to land gorgeous models to marry, but not all of them were man enough to keep their wives around. Some made it, some are making it and others didn’t make it very long.  Read on for 15 such stories.

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Tom Brady and Gisele

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen

There was a time many years ago when Tom Brady and model/actress Bridget Moynahan were together.  Then they broke up and he began dating Gisele the same month. Then a month later, his ex admitted that she was pregnant. It was almost the beginning and the end for this happily married couple, but he managed to make it work and they’ve been married ever since. He’s got a son with his ex-girlfriend and two kids with his current wife.  Though rumors speculated that the two would split last year, it never happened and they remain strong.

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Jeff Garcia and Carmella DeCesare

He’s the ex quarterback who has played for teams such as the San Francisco 49ers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  She is a former model, and had the honor of donning a pair of bunny ears in a Hugh Hefner publication you might have heard of.  She’s from the Midwest, and after meeting her husband whom she married in 2007, she gave up her modeling career to be a wife and a stay-at-home mom to their three young children. They stay out of the press and appear very happy together.  Though there have been rumblings that Garcia might actually try a comeback in his 40s.

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Elsa Benitez and Rony Seikaly

She is one of the most beautiful models in the world, and she could have had any one she ever wanted as far as her marriage was concerned. She met a retired basketball player by the name of Rony Seikaly, however, and decided to choose him. It was not the correct choice in husband, however, as the two ended up having a baby and then deciding that they were better off apart.  Seikaly is currently one of the more successful DJs in the world and resides in Greece.

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Hank Baskett and Kendra Wilkinson

We know that the former NFL player and his former model wife have had quite the relationship. She was a model and one of Hugh Hefner’s famous girlfriends who turned into a reality television superstar. They met at a golf tournament when she was still living in Hef’s mansion and hit it off. She broke up with Hef, married Baskett, had two kids and later found out he was having an affair.  They’re working things out apparently, although we really just don’t understand how.

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Tony Parker and Eva Longoria

He’s an NBA basketball player with an amazing career (but unfortunately just lost to the Thunder in the playoffs), and he was married to the former model for less than three years. They met in the locker room after the Spurs guard played in one of the biggest games of his career. Longoria was there with her father and went into the locker room to meet the team. They hit it off, got married, he cheated, and she left. It’s a classic love story of a former model and a pro basketball player isn’t it?

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Jim Miller and Marissa Miller

There was a time when Marissa Miller one of the newer models in the Victoria’s Secret line.  While it seems like forever ago, that’s when the hottie married a professional athlete. She married Jim Miller, who was a lifeguard, pro surfer, and promoter at the time. They were married for only 2 years, but it counts. It seems divorce did her well, too, as she eventually went on to become one of the most famous models of all time.  Though we haven’t seen her in a while.  Is this because of Kate Upton?

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Marko Jaric and Adriana Lima

She’s one of the most famous Victoria’s Secret models in the world, and he used to be an NBA guard. Their marriage is one that was questionable from the start. No one could figure out what someone as gorgeous as she was doing with Jaric. The couple decided to wed in 2009 and have a family, but they announced that they were divorcing in 2014. It’s sad since there are kids involved, but it’s not something that shocked the world.  She must have woken up one day, looked into the mirror and thought, “why aren’t I dating Leonardo DiCaprio?”

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Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker

Aside from the fact that Andy Roddick was one of the bigger names in men’s tennis, he’s also famous for the fact that he liked to date seriously beautiful women before he was married. It makes perfect sense that when he met model and actress Brooklyn Decker, he would fall madly in love and ask her to be his wife. They’ve been married for several years now, and they’re parents to their own little one.  While Roddick didn’t change his ways of being with gorgeous models, he did find one to marry.  The two seem pretty happy.

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Jason Sehorn and Angie Harmon

They might not be married anymore, but they certainly did make a cute couple back in the day.  The two met through friends, hit it off, and got married. Their marriage is one of the many in the professional athlete world that simply didn’t last, but it is one of those divorces that really did shock the world. The former New York Giants football player and his model-turned-actress ex-wife were one of the most famous couples in sports history before their divorce.  Harmon’s still on TV and we have no idea what Sehorn is up to.

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Jeff Gordon and Ingrid Vandebosch

He’s one of the most famous NASCAR drivers of all-time and she is a former model. The two met a very long time ago when Gordon was just getting going, began a relationship, and got married. Apparently Ingrid’s entire marriage to Gordon has been a fairytale, and he’s often said that there is one thing that keeps him going through every race, her.  The fact that she was there for every single race he’s ever been in and that she was always waiting for a hug and a kiss at the finish line when the race was over is all he ever wanted in a wife.  Now that he’s done racing, they can enjoy time off the road.

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Tony Romo and Candice Crawford

What we love about this love story is the fact that it made an entire city happy. He was fresh off a romance with singer Jessica Simpson who the entire city of Dallas blamed for the quarterback’s poor performance when he met his friend Chace Crawford’s sister, Candice. She is a former model and beauty queen, and sister of the former Gossip Girl actor. They met, fell in love, got married and now they have a little family of their own.  Although it seems that Romo still struggles to find that elusive NFL Championship.

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Petr Nedved and Veronica Varekova

She as a Victoria’s Secret model from the Czech Republic, and he is a retired hockey player. These two met and fell in love likely because they could pronounce one another’s names, and then they married.  There were both skeptics and those who thought their marriage would last. Ultimately, however, it did not and they ended up divorcing before their marriage really had a chance to take off.  Now they have to find other partners whose names they can pronounce.

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Abigail Clancy and Peter Crouch

This is a couple that gets bad press and we’re not 100% sure why. She’s a famous model who won a modeling reality television show in Britain, and she married Peter Crouch after she already rose to fame. The press likes to give them a hard time because while he is a very famous soccer player, he’s self admittedly unattractive so there are the naysayers that claim this is a mismatch.  This is one couple that might actually have what it takes, though because they seem to tune out all the press.  They’re still going strong.

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David Beckham and Victoria Beckham

She wasn’t technically a model when they met, but she was part of one of the biggest girl groups in the world, and she has done plenty of modeling in her career, so yeah it counts.  She’s gorgeous, he is gorgeous, and they are both seriously gorgeous with four gorgeous kids. Aside from some modeling, she’s also become one of the most coveted fashion designers in the world.  David on the other hand just stays good looking and models even though his soccer career is over.

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Christian Karembeu and Adriana Karembeu

She was the Wonderbra model and he is a French soccer player. They were a match made in heaven and it appears that they are quite happy about that. Did we mention that she’s also known for having the world’s longest legs on a supermodel?  Seriously, she’s won a world record with the length of those legs.  It’s no wonder she married a soccer player.  Can you imagine the legs that their children will have?  Wow.

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Written by Tiffany Raiford

Tiffany Raiford is a lifelong Floridian, wife to my high school sweetheart and mother of four littles (two girls and boy/girl twins...no, they are not identical and yes, I'm sure). My kids love to whine, so I love to wine. My loves include nap time, bed time, date night, travel and evenings and weekends when my husband is home because he handles all diaper changes.