Who is Katherine Webb?
To sports fans, she is probably known best as the wife of an American Football player AJ McCarron, however, Katherine Webb is someone who has established a name for herself in the fashion industry as well as on television. She’s also participated in numerous beauty pageants, and won the Miss Alabama USA crown in 2012.
Perhaps you didn’t know that she’s also a artist, and if you want to see her work, you could via her Instagram page ‘kwmfineart’.
To get to know her better, keep on scrolling through this article, and you will find all the interesting facts about this stunning, young woman.
Early life, family, and education
Katherine Elizabeth Webb was born under the zodiac sign of Taurus on 24 April 1989, in Montgomery, Alabama USA, where she was raised by her parents Leslie and Alan, but about whom nothing else is known.
Katherine has a sister, Laurie, who is a former model. She went to Auburn University, whose team played against AJ’s team when her sister came into the spotlight during the game. Laurie told The War Eagle Reader that she wasn’t surprised that Brent Musburger described Katherine as ‘lovely’ and ‘beautiful.’
Speaking of Katherine’s educational background, she attended Northside High School, and matriculated in 2007. She is also Auburn University alumni, and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Science (Business Management and Administration), in 2011.
Beauty pageant and modeling career
Katherine made her pageant debut while she was in high school, and competed for Miss Georgia USA in 2007. She was ranked among the first 15 beauties, and won Miss Photogenic Georgia USA.
After participating in this pageant, Katherine paused until she obtained her college degree, but while she was at college, Katherine began modeling to provide for herself, and she was a quite successful model who worked for clients in Atlanta, Miami and New York.
In January 2012, Katherine won the title of Miss Georgia USA, then in June she participated in the Miss USA pageant, and she was ranked in the top 10 contestants.
We know who @_KatherineWebb will be rooting for tonight! #NationalChampionship #CFBPlayoff https://t.co/Q0sY9QmPVc pic.twitter.com/W6nN03JCOd
— Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) January 9, 2017
However, Katherine became famous overnight after an announcer Brent Musburger commented about her at the moment when the camera was centered on her, during the 2013 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game between Alabama and Notre Dame College teams.
Katherine was there in the audience to support her then-boyfriend and future husband AJ McCarron, and after Brent’s comments, the number of her Twitter followers jumped from about 2,000 to over 175,000, which included celebrities such as LeBron James, Aaron Murray and Darnell Dockett.
A YouTube video featuring Katherine in the audience attracted over three million views, and the phrase ‘AJ McCarron girlfriend’ had over one million searches on Google.
Some people commented that Brent’s words could be referred to as ‘sexist’, so he issued an apology, but Katherine said that she was not offended at all by his comments about her looking gorgeous, but felt flattered.
Relationship and marriage with AJ McCarron
Katherine and AJ met through Twitter. He first followed her, and she responded. Eventually they exchanged phone numbers, and began talking and texting, jokingly saying that ‘it was love at first tweet’.
Their first encounter happened during the beauty pageant for Miss Alabama in 2012 – Katherine was on stage when she saw him in the audience. Soon after, they publicized their relationship and met each other’s family, and as Katherine said, they were happy together.
When their relationship became nationally famous, Katherine’s DM was full of messages from guys who offered her ‘weird’ kinds of stuff, which according to her, was pretty annoying.
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In March 2014, Katherine and AJ announced that they were engaged, and the couple exchanged their wedding vows on 12 July 2014 in a lavish ceremony held in Orange Beach, Alabama. They shared photos from their wedding in September of that year, and people commented that Katherine looked stunning in her custom-made wedding dress.
In December 2015, Katherine shared with her followers that she was pregnant, and on 24 May 2016, she gave birth to their first son, Raymond Anthony McCarron III. The family expanded when their second son, Cash Carter McCarron was born on 18 December 2018, and on 7 July 2021, Katherine gave birth to their third son, sharing the news with her followers on Instagram posting a photo from hospital, with the caption that revealed his name- Gunnar Cruz McCarron.
As of late 2022, the family of five lives in their residence in Atlanta.
Age, height, and net worth
Katherine’s age is 33, she has long brown hair which according to her fans perfectly fits her cobalt-blue eyes. She is 5ft 11ins (1.8m) tall, and thanks to her hard work at the gym, she’s again fit, and she weighs around 130lbs (60kgs). After she gave birth to her third son, some people disliked her postpartum body, and Katherine answered that she gained around 40lbs (18kgs) during her pregnancy, and that she would lose the extra weight when she was good and ready.
When it comes to her net worth, according to sources, it’s been estimated at $1 million, most of the income she’s earned is thanks to her modeling career. If you would like to know, her husband, AJ McCarron, has a net worth estimated at over $5 million.
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Briefly about AJ McCarron
AJ McCarron whose real name is Raymond Anthony Junior was born on 13 September 1990, in Mobile, Alabama, where he was raised by his parents Anthony and Dee Dee, alongside his brother Corey.
AJ began playing football in high school, and was noticed by several football programs. Upon matriculating in 2009, he signed for The Alabama Crimson Tide, a football program that represents the University of Alabama. His shining college football career brought him an opportunity to be drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals, a professional American Football team of the National Football League (NFL) in 2014.
AJ played for the Bengals from 2014 until 2017, and in the following year, for the Buffalo Bills and Oakland Riders. The season 2019-2020 saw him playing for Houston Texans, while in 2021, he played for the Atlanta Falcons. On 15 November 2022, AJ was assigned to the St. Louis BattleHawks of the XFL, a league founded by Vince McMahon, a former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) executive.
