Katherine Webb mentioned it’s time for her to “get back out there” after practically a dozen years out of the highlight.
The mannequin, who’s married to former NFL quarterback AJ McCarron, has no regrets about taking a hiatus years after the 2013 BCS Championship Recreation, a 42-14 demolition of Notre Dame by McCarron’s Alabama and the night time her life modified utterly.
The previous Miss Alabama 2012 practically broke the web when ESPN cameras captured her sitting within the stands with McCarron’s mom, Dee Dee Bonner — as Brent Musburger, a former ESPN sportscaster, gushed over her gorgeous appears.on the printed.
That second turned her right into a family identify and she or he launched a profitable modeling profession.
Webb, now 35, stepped away to start out a household with McCarron — but additionally due to false narratives that inaccurately painted her as a gold digger and a narcissist, she mentioned in a wide-ranging interview with The Put up.
“That’s part of the reason why I stepped back a little bit as well, is that social media and the news at that point in time was quite a bit. I think I was one of the the top five most Googled people that year,” mentioned Webb, who not too long ago signed joined Collab, a advertising company, for illustration.
“My personality and how I live… I’m very positive. I’m not dramatic. I try to stay away from negative things. So unfortunately… a lot of negative things were written. And I was like, I don’t like that people think these things about me just because I’m not that way in real life. So I shied away from a lot of different things after that point just because I didn’t like how I was being portrayed then. I just I stayed out of the spotlight in a way.”
The start
Musburger’s introduction of Webb was overtly full of compliments on the ESPN broadcast again in 2013.
“When you’re a quarterback at Alabama — you see that lovely lady there? She does go to Auburn but she also is Miss Alabama and that’s A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend, OK,” Musburger mentioned. “… Wow I’ll tell ya, you quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman. Wow! Woah! So if you’re a youngster at Alabama, start throwing the football around the backyard.”
There was no ill-will on Webb’s finish — and the pair has exchanged pleasantries by way of the years.
Webb’s social media following skyrocketed and her modeling profession took off. She landed a photograph shoot in Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit 4 months after her viral fame — posing in McCarron’s quantity 10 Alabama jersey and bikini bottoms.
The brunette magnificence turned the “It” woman on this planet of WAGs, a phrase for the wives and girlfriends {of professional} athletes.
That viral second modified the course of Webb’s future, but it surely wasn’t as glamorous because it appeared.