Throughout the year, we’ve been trying to keep up with Aaron Rodgers’ claims of marriage. During the NFL off-season, Rodgers allegedly married a woman named “Brittani,” who has never been seen publicly or confirmed in any way. Aaron has referenced Brittani in interviews, saying that no one has seen her publicly or on social media because she’s very “private.” He also revealed that Brittani has a 20-year-old sister named Mia. Meanwhile, no one can even find any marriage records for Aaron and Brittani. All of this has fueled so many conspiracies, but I’m holding to the two most plausible conspiracies: A) Brittani never existed and it was all just a lie which got away from him or B) Brittani exists but she’s super-young/sheltered and they had some kind of hokey, unofficial commitment ceremony. In any case, now that Aaron is playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Steelers WAGs are dying to meet Brittani. Only she hasn’t been around whatsoever.
It’s one of the biggest mysteries in the NFL: Who is Aaron Rodgers’ wife, and why has nobody met her?
‘She’s like a phantom,’ the wife of one of Rodgers’ teammates, who is part of a social group of team wives and girlfriends, told the Daily Mail. ‘We all want to meet her, to invite her out, get to know her. But we haven’t met her yet. We don’t even know who she is.’
The Daily Mail has spoken with four people in his circle – including members of his estranged family – and they all share the same confusion about the bride’s identity.
‘I get being secretive, but come on,’ a family member told the Daily Mail. ‘At this point, it feels like he’s deliberately keeping her secret from even the people who love him the most. All anyone wants is for Aaron to be happy, so if he’s happy with her, we’d love to meet her. I don’t understand the cloak and dagger part of it all.’
Another family member added that they ‘assume his wife exists, and I am looking forward to meeting her someday.’
Professionally, Rodgers has made no special arrangements with his team for his spouse to sit in the arena as he plays. Generally speaking, wives and girlfriends – who are often referred to as WAGs – sit in special sections of sporting venues to cheer on the team and socialize with each other. They bring their families and form bonds while their partners compete.
‘I’m dying to meet her,’ the teammate’s wife told the Daily Mail. ‘But she could be sitting somewhere in the stadium and I’d have no idea. She could walk right up to me and I wouldn’t know who she was.’
A former teammate agreed, telling the Daily Mail that Rodgers doesn’t even bring up his spouse in casual conversation.
‘All I know about him being married is what I see in the news,’ the teammate said, ‘He will talk about football or small talk, but he doesn’t go there when we talk. I guess I assume she exists, but if you put me in front of a judge and jury, I’d have to say that I just don’t know.’
Friends and colleagues of Rodgers speculate that he is keeping his wife hidden because his string of high-profile relationships have made headlines in the past. ‘Everyone watched every step of his last relationships,’ the first family member told the Daily Mail. ‘I guess that he doesn’t want a repeat of that.’
I don’t put any stock into the fact that certain family members haven’t met Brittani – Aaron famously has tricky relations with many family members, and I believe he’s completely estranged from some of them too. But the stuff about no one in the Steelers organization having met Brittani, and his wife not coming to the games or anything? It’s definitely weird. As for the speculation that Aaron is trying to be more private after a string of higher-profile relationships… that’s what makes me think that Brittani doesn’t exist, honestly. While Aaron definitely walked red carpets with various celebrity exes, Aaron was also out and about with his ladies on social media, plus there were rumored sightings and even paparazzi photos. There’s been none of that with “Brittani.”
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