Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird have been a power couple for years now, and their love story is just as inspiring as their incredible athletic achievements.
The U.S. women’s soccer star, 38, and the WNBA legend, 42, hit it off at the 2016 Rio Olympics and have been pretty much inseparable since.
Rapinoe and Bird have been open about their love for each other over the years, and frequently gush about each other in interviews.
Rapinoe once joked that she loved being a WAG (a nickname for the wives and girlfriends of professional athletes) to her star basketball player partner.
“I love being a WAG and a superfan,” Rapinoe told People in 2019. “I think it’s AMAZING and to be able to, you know, watch your partner exceed and excel and be exactly who they are in a public forum. That’s pretty special.”
She added that neither of them are “jealous or weird about each other’s careers,” but that they simply “support each other.”
After meeting in 2016 at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the pair became engaged in 2020.
“Sue-ted & Booted,” the Seattle Storm player, 13-time WNBA All-Star and five-time Olympic gold medalist captioned her post, while Rapinoe, who played for OL Reign and the USWNT, wrote “she’s sueted…I’m booted…they’re married…❤️ wales will never be the same ,” under her own carousel.
PSA: Megan
Rapinoe wore a black blazer dress with sheer black lace tights and, of course, her ankle booties, while Bird looked fierce in a fitted white blazer with black dress pants and pearl hair clips. The two-time World Cup winner hurt her right leg last month while playing soccer.
Over the weekend, fans were ecstatic when retired professional athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe shared cute, humorous photos of themselves looking stunning in their wedding regalia. The WNBA champion and NWSL star posted pictures, but fans thought they were from their own ceremony.
Rapinoe proposed to Bird on bended knee at a swimming pool
In 2020, while celebrating Bird’s 40th birthday with friends in Antigua, Rapinoe proposed.
Rapinoe was lying on the edge of the infinity pool, and Bird was in the water, as the couple recalled to GQ.
Suddenly, something felt different.
“A glance crossed her mind,” Bird remembered the incident. “I could just sense it. I knew what was happening. ”.
According to GQ, Rapinoe proposed with one of the gold rings in her own hand.
Bird shared a photo of the sweet moment without a caption on Instagram.
Rapinoe sensed Bird was the one from their very first date
Even though they had been conversing for some time, it took them some time to advance their conversation.
Following Rapinoe’s breakup with her then-fiance, Bird and she went on their first formal date.
In 2021, Rapinoe said to GQ, “I was like, ‘Okay, don’t be a cliché lesbian, where you love this person when you first meet them.'” “But it was just immediately like, ‘Oh, this is home. ’”.
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