How Did the 'Duck Dynasty' Couples Meet?
How Did the 'Duck Dynasty' Couples Meet?
By Kelly Woo | Yahoo! TV
The big, lovable, duck-hunting, sweet tea-swilling
family of "Duck Dynasty" is anchored by long-standing, rock-solid
marriages. The Robertson couples -- from patriarch and matriarch Phil
and Kay on down to their sons and daughters-in-law -- are definitely
having and holding, for richer and for poorer (definitely richer,
though), in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall live.
Check out how these happily marrieds met, long before they were featured on a hit A&E reality series:
Phil and Kay
The
high school sweethearts started dating when Kay was just 14 and got
married in 1966 when she was 16. They were practically an old married
couple when Phil attended Louisiana Tech on a football scholarship;
he even started ahead of the now-legendary Terry Bradshaw and turned
down an offer to play in the NFL to concentrate on duck hunting.
"They had me there when they first got to Tech, so he was also a
little different than the modern athlete," their oldest son, Alan, told ESPN. (Alan is a minister who is not on "Duck Dynasty.")
"He already had a family at that young of an age. I think that
hunting, some of it was just providing for us. So I think that changed a
bit of his attitude and allowed him to walk away a little bit easier,
you know."
Phil and Kay's love story hasn't always been happy, though. In the '70s, Phil was "headed south"
-- running a bar, drinking, getting into fights. In his autobiography,
"The Duck Commander Family," son Willie recounts how Phil kicked out his
family in a drunken rage, then begged Kay to come back.
"What kept me there? What made me stay with him? It was words my grandmother said: 'One man, one wife, for one life,'" she told Sports Spectrum.
Phil turned to religion to change his life, and Kay forgave him. They're still together more than 45 years later!
Watch this clip of Phil gushing about Kay:
Si and Christine
Women
everywhere shed a tear last December when Uncle Si, the infinitely
quotable war veteran, revealed he was actually married. His wife of 43
years, Christine, is not featured on the show.
The inadvertent heartthrob had seemingly been getting so much fan
mail that he finally posted a picture of himself with Christine on his Facebook fan page,
with the caption: "Everyone's been asking so here ya go...This is me
and my wife Christine, we have been married 43 years...Loved her then,
Love her still, always have, always will...and you can take that to the
bank, JACK!!"
Si's niece-in-law, Jessica Robertson, also posted a picture of the elusive Christine:
On the show, Si talked about his marriage for the first time just
weeks ago. His grandnephew John Luke needed advice about breaking up
with his girlfriend, and Si proudly declared he'd been married for over
four decades.
Willie and Korie
Talk
about young love! Willie and Korie met at summer camp when they were in
fourth and third grade, respectively. "We were on a hike and I asked
her to hold hands," he told AskMen.
"We went to different schools -- I was in public and she was in private
-- but we'd see each other in the Christian youth group during the
year."
They married a year after high school, and Willie doesn't regret
tying the knot at such a young age. "That way you don't have all the
baggage. All our memories are together. Everything we have, we built
together."
Perhaps their five kids -- three biological, two adopted -- will take
his advice. The eldest two, John Luke and Sadie, are high schoolers who
are dating.
Now married for more than 21 years, Willie credits his wife for the
family business's success. "In the early days, it was her encouragement
that got me to start thinking about how to expand the business," he
said. "Had I not been married to her, I never would have done anything
that I've done today."
Jase and Missy
This
couple's meet-cute story sounds like it comes straight out of a movie:
They met in high school on a fake date to make Jase's ex-girlfriend
jealous! Now, they've been married over 20 years and have three kids --
Reed, Cole, and Mia.
Jase told Game & Fish magazine
that the question the bearded Robertson men get asked most by viewers
is how they managed to snag such beautiful wives. "You hear people say
'Oh these women married these guys for their money,' because we're
successful now, but what they don't realize is that when they met us, we
didn't have any money. We were all poor, and we've all been married for
lots of years," Jase explained. "I always think that's comical. We
really came from humble beginnings. It's just been the American dream
lived out, we do what we love to do, and it just worked out. But you
know our wives are with us because of our spiritual qualities, which
flies in the face of what most people think."
On his Facebook page, Jase said, "I am HAPPILY married" while responding to various fan questions.
Jep and Jessica
Jep and Jessica (center)There's
not much info out there about how Jep and Jessica met (though we'll
hazard a guess and say high school). They have four kids: Lily, Merritt,
Priscilla, and River.
Jessica is an avid Twitter user and often tweets about her hubby (and vice versa):
"Duck Dynasty" airs Wednesdays at 10 PM on A&E.
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