Everlasting love! Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews’ romance offers Us all of the feels — beginning with their highschool sweetheart beginnings.
The couple, who obtained engaged in September 2020, began out as two mates in Texas who went to highschool collectively. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback turned shut with Matthews in 2011 when he was only a freshman at Whitehouse High School.
After giving her a rose and a Valentine’s Day card the next year, the pair’s friendship morphed into one thing extra. Throughout their time in highschool, the athletes rooted one another — Mahomes performed each soccer and baseball whereas Matthews was a soccer star — and had been one another’s go-to dates for dances within the fitness center.
The teenage sweethearts went to totally different faculties, however each stayed in Texas, which helped preserve their relationship alive.
“He ended up going to Texas Tech, and that’s when it actually hit me, ‘Oh s—t, he might go play professional football,” the Brittany Lynne Fitness creator told Today in December 2020 of her fiancé’s soccer expertise. “It was surreal to see him living his dream and seeing him grow as an athlete and as a man in general was just amazing.”
The couple, who share two canines and a house in Kansas City, Missouri, have been by one another’s sides by means of all of the highs and lows of their grownup years, together with Mahomes successful Super Bowl LIV in 2020 and shedding Super Bowl LV in 2021.
In between his Super Bowl appearances, the quarterback proposed to his longtime love on the identical day he obtained his championship ring at Arrowhead Stadium in September 2020.
“On a day that was meant to celebrate you, you turned it into celebrating us. It’s always us, it’s always you and me,” Matthews wrote through Instagram on the time. “The words you looked into my eyes and said to me at this moment, will NEVER leave my mind! You made this day perfect, you took my entire breath away and I could not have imagined anything better. I love you, forever and always! Cheers to spending our lifetime together and an inseparable bond🎉🥂💕.”
The identical month, the pair introduced they had been anticipating their first child collectively, somewhat lady. They welcomed daughter Sterling in February 2021.
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