Inside Kate Upton and husband Justin Verlander’s 9-year marriage with 2 kids

The couple first locked eyes in February 2012, as they were shooting a commercial for the video game Major League Baseball 2K12.

The couple momentarily put their relationship on hiatus in the middle of 2013, but they reunited in 2014 in the Bahamas.

Two years later, Kate shared news of their engagement on the Met Gala red carpet while showing off her impressive diamond ring.

The pair got married the following year while enjoying the views of Tuscany, Italy and continued their honeymoon in the romantic country.

Kate admires Justin’s passion and ambition, and she loves cheering him on publicly. 

After he was awarded the Cy Young Award, she shared on social media: “Your focus and work ethic inspires me and I’m so grateful to spend my life with someone as passionate and dedicated as you.” 

Justin has been extremely candid on how much Kate has helped him with his struggles with mental health while undergoing hernia surgery and recovery from it.

He revealed to Bleacher Report: “She was what I needed. I don’t like to talk to people about being hurt. As athletes, you’re not supposed to. It’s an excuse…But she was someone I could talk to.”

He added: “I mean, basically a therapist. Somebody I could trust with worries about my career. Worries about, ‘Can I make it?’ Worries about what I’m going through to get back.”

Kate opened up the obstacles she faced becoming a mother and how she learned to prioritize her rest.

She revealed to the Editorial List: “[I felt] so much pressure to be doing all these things, like breastfeeding on the go — when the reality, for me, was that breastfeeding was sucking the energy away from me. I realized I needed to calm down, to allow my body to recover.”

Being that both Kate and Justin are public figures, they are on their phone pretty consistently, therefore, they decided to create a family rule.

Kate shared with the outlet: “I want to be enjoying my life, enjoying my family, not constantly trying to take the perfect picture. I think my husband wants me to throw my phone away.”

She added: “We talk about it in the house all the time: ‘Let’s have a phone-free dinner.’ We don’t want [our daughter] thinking being on the phone is all that life is.”