The Magnolia Network’s co-founder, Joanna Gaines, just shared something that could have changed the whole trajectory of her life.
Joanna and Chip Gaines have been married for 20 years and they have literally built an empire together. But before she met Chip, she had eyes for his roommate, “Hot John.”
While interviewing on Valentine’s Day on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Joanna talked about first meeting her husband’s former roommate while she worked at her dad’s tire shop.
She talked about he co-workers always trying to fix her up with customers and she would always turn them down. But when she saw “Hot John,” she had a change of heart.
“I got the courage to get up out of my office. I walk towards the waiting room, and John and I make eye contact. But I’m not really gifted at making conversation,” she told Jimmy Fallon. “So I looked at him and I’m like, ‘Now what?’ And so instead of going to the waiting room, I walk straight outside, like I was going to take a smoke break or something.”
“As I’m walking outside, Chip is coming in to get Hot John,” she continues. “And he intersects.”
Chip got into the story at this point and said that, unlike his wife, he is “incredible at eye contact.”
“I always have a one-liner planned for any occasion where you might meet one of the most beautiful women on the planet,” he said. “You must have that back-pocket line ready to rock. So she walked right past Hot John, thankfully, right into (my) loving arms.”
Chip then compared himself to his roommate who was “tall, dark and handsome,” he called himself “sort of shorter, redder and frumpier.” Joanna Gaines quickly added, “That’s my type.”
It wasn’t long before “love was in the air” with the two.
This May, the “Fixer Upper” couple will celebrate two decades of a happy marriage. They have five children: Drake, 18, Ella, 16, Duke, 14, Emmie, 13, and Crew, 4.
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