Who Is Jared Goff's Wife? All About Christen Harper

Mar. 15, 2025

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Jared Goffand Christen Harper’s family is growing.

The NFL quarterback has enjoyed a successful football career thus far, playing for the Los Angeles Rams from 2016 to 2021 before getting traded to the Detroit Lions.

In 2017, the Rams saw their first winning season in 14 years and their first playoff appearance in 13 years with Goff leading the team. The following year, the Rams played in theSuper Bowlfor the first time since 2001. Goff then helped the Lions break a 15-game losing streak in 2021.

Off the field, Goff is married to model and actressChristen Harper. The pair were first linked in 2019 andannounced their engagementthree years later after Goff proposed on a vacation with friends. The couplegot married in Ojai, Calif., on June 22, 2024, and they are currentlyexpecting their first child.

While they both have their own busy careers — Harper appeared in the 2022Sports IllustratedSwimsuit issue — they’re quick tosupport each other. In addition to Harper attending her husband’s games, the couple have also attended red carpet events together like theESPY Awards.

So who is Jared Goff’s wife? Keep reading to find out more about Christen Harper and her relationship with the NFL player.

She grew up in California

Jared Goff and Christen Harper announce engagement.Christen Harper/Instagram

Harper was born on May 28, 1993, to Michael and Daria Harper, and herhometownis Valencia, California. Her older brother, Shane Harper, is a professional ice hockey player who’s played in theAmerican Hockey Leagueand for Sweden and Russia, perEurosport. Harperattended California State University, Northridge.

She’s a model and actress

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Harper works as both a model and an actress. According to aSports Illustratedprofile, she decided to pursue a career in modeling to help pay for college.

Harper’s acting career began when she was a child with a role in the 2004 short filmSeven Eleven. She also appeared in the 2019 filmsAuggieandThe Obituary of Tunde Johnson. With Goff, she appeared in an episode ofHard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions.

She was aSports IllustratedSwimsuit Swim Search finalist

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In 2021, Harper made it tothe final 15of the annualSports IllustratedSwimsuit Model Search and was selected as one of six models to appear in the magazine.

She met Goff on a dating app

Jared Goff and Christen Harper.Christen Harper/Instagram

Harper and Goffstarted dating in 2019after they met through a dating app.

She got engaged to Goff in June 2022

Goffproposed to Harperin June 2022 while on a vacation with friends in Los Cabos, Mexico. Goff popped the question on the beach and called himself the “luckiest guy in the world” in anInstagrampost announcing the news.

Harper also shared the news onInstagram, writing that she couldn’t “wait for forever” with the quarterback. The following week, she wrote alongside aseries of photosfrom their trip, “Still on cloud 9 from the best weekend of my life.”

She is supportive of Goff’s career

Harper is always quick to support her quarterback husband. In December 2021, the Lions ended a 15-game losing streak while she was on a shoot withSports Illustrated, and the outlet shared a video of Harperreacting to the news.

“It’s over? Shut up, shut up,” she says in the video. “You guys, this is their first win, like this is crazy. … Oh my god, this is gonna make me cry.”

When Goff was initially traded to the Lions, Harper was on board to make the move to Detroit, despite her career being in L.A.

“We’ve always been in California, so there was an excitement to a fresh start, but at the same time, my whole career has been in L.A. and I did not know what it was going to look like moving away from that,” she told theNew York Post. Despite her initial hesitation, she was glad she took the leap with Goff.

“I feel lucky to kind of start branching out into doing different things,” she continued. “I think the space allowed me to do that because if I stayed in L.A., I probably would have continued to do the same work I’ve done for years.”

“It was always Detroit,” she captioned the sweet video.

She was a panelist on the “Women of the League” web series

One new area that Harper branched out into was the sports community. In December 2022, Harper appeared as a panelist on Stay Doubted’s first-ever original content series, Women of the League. The web series “focuses on empowering women through raw, honest conversation that challenges the stereotype of what’s traditionally been perceived as a ‘typical’ NFL wife.”

The model appeared alongside fellow NFL spouses, Allison Rochell, Kym Jackson, Whitney Risner and hostJosie Leinart.

During thesecond episode, Harper opened up about the sacrifices she’s had to make for Goff’s career and her experience adjusting to a new city.

“In L.A. it was such a different experience for me because I did have friends and family, so I wasn’t as involved with the women on the team,” she said in the video. “But moving to Detroit, it was such a stark contrast, I had nothing there. So I really relied on the women on the team.”

She continued, “Because we were in L.A. I had the best of both worlds. I was working every day but I could still be with Jared … But once we moved that was a huge sacrifice for me, I was giving up a career.”

“That was really hard and it really affected my identity and kind of who I was. I had a hard time at first,” she added of the move to Detroit. “I am still trying to find that balance of still having stuff that is my own and still working.”

She’s spoken out about online trolls

Harper has found herself on the receiving end of online harassment, evenreceiving death threatsfrom Lions fans when the team would lost games.

In an interview on the podcastCourtside Club, Harper said that she’s learned to “not listen” and to “block out that noise and try to enjoy the moment because it only lasts for so long.”

Harper added: “At the end of the day it’s a game, and of course it’s important; for us, it’s our life, and it’s his life. But all those other people there, they’re just there for entertainment. And they’re gonna say things, and they’re drunk, and they’re whatever.”

She and Goff got married in June 2024

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Just a couple of months before the couple tied the knot, Goff opened up about their wedding plans.

“California is where I grew up and live currently, and my fiancée is from just outside of [Los Angeles] so she was born and raised there as well. We have some pretty good roots there," he told PEOPLE in April 2024.

Goff added: “We’ll have all our friends and family there. It’ll be a big party andsomething we’ll remember forever.”

Christen Harper and Jared Goff in 2025.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

“I’m looking forward to becoming a dad,” Goff said on the NFL Honors red carpet. “I can’t wait to watch [Harper] be a mom.”

The soon-to-be new mom added: “I know he’s going to be the best [dad], and it’s just gonna be exciting to do this together as a team.”

source: people.com