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Who is Isabelle Butker, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker?
Meet Isabelle Butker, who became a focal point of the controversial speech given by the NFL star at his graduation speech.
Harrison Butker, the kicker for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, grabbed headlines after delivering a controversial graduation speech at Benedictine College over the weekend. The athlete shared several misogynistic, homophobic, and antisemitic statements, among others, sparking strong criticism on social media, with even the NFL issuing a statement on the matter.
Butker under fire for controversial speech
Among other remarks, Butker congratulated the graduating women, however, he added that the most exciting moment would be when they got married and had children.
“For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.
“My beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly began when she started living her vocation as a wife and mother,” he continued. “It cannot be overstated that all my success was made possible because a girl I met in band class in high school converted to the faith, became my wife, and took on one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.
“Isabelle’s dream of having a career may not have come true, but if you ask her today if she regrets her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation and say: Hey, no,” he added.
Listen to the entire Harrison Butker’s speech for yourself:
When did Isabelle and Harrison Butker meet?
According to reports, Isabelle, who grew up in Georgia, attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where she played for the basketball team for all four years and graduated in 2016. Isabelle and Butker began dating during their freshman year of college.
They continued dating throughout university. As Isabelle revealed in an interview, she converted to Catholicism after starting to date Harrison. Harrison proposed to Isabelle in May 2017, just a month after being recruited by the NFL. The two got married on 5 April 2018, in a Catholic church.
The couple shares two children. Isabelle and Harrison welcomed their first child together, James Augustine Butker, in January 2019. They welcomed another baby, a girl, in the following years, although the kicker did not make a formal announcement of her birth, and not much is known about her