Kate Upton and Justin Verlander have had some strikes against them in their nearly seven-year love story, but the model and the pitcher (parents to 1-year-old Genevieve) have never been down and out.
Though they had kept things light for a long stretch, Upton even enjoying a brief romance within 2013, their commitment turned serious right around the time that life did. A freak groin injury during a training session led to the discovery that Verlander had an undiagnosed core muscle injury in his abs that would require hernia surgery. And it was Upton that was by his side in the Philadelphia hotel as he recovered from the January 2014 procedure.
She slipped into her pajamas for countless rounds of Yahtzee and other board games—each more competitive than the next, as you might imagine from two people who are used to winning—and when the athlete complained of constipation, a common result of the surgery, she Googled every potential remedy, scooping up bagfuls of pills and other holistic remedies at a nearby store.
Because Upton knew from s--tty situations. And she certainly wasn't about to be bothered by the worst types of fans, the ones who pointed at her and the happiness she gave Verlander as the reason for his decline. As someone in an industry with an equal brief window of success and even more of a trained focus on the body, she empathized with what he was dealing with.
Her perspective, that knowing her own body and how she treated it helped her brush off such ignorance, helped him deal with the critiques. And though much of their time together had the standard trappings of any relationships—"We are foodies, so I think a typical date night would be going out to dinner and a movie," he recently"She was instrumental in me not...like, jumping off a bridge," he shared.
Quite simply, the self-assured, endlessly supportive model was exactly what the athlete needed, both during that trying time and for the rest of forever. As Verlander put it,"Who knows if I'm even here if it wasn't for her?"
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