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.
Non-public life and promoting actual property
McCarron turned the primary quarterback to win consecutive BCS Nationwide Championship Video games in 2012 and 2013, when he was the Heisman Trophy runner-up.
He was chosen by the Bengals with the 164th general decide within the fifth spherical of the 2014 NFL draft in Might.
Webb and McCarron tied the knot two months in a while July 12, 2014.
They went on to welcome three sons, Gunnar Cruz, 8, Money Carter, 5, and Raymond Anthony McCarron III, aka Tripp, 3.
McCarron had stints with the Payments, Raiders, Texans and the Falcons, principally as a dependable backup. He took his abilities to the XFL in 2023.
Webb acquired her actual property license as she aimed for a extra low-profile career.
“We opened a real estate company and are selling residential properties,” Webb mentioned, including that McCarron, who doesn’t have an actual property license, paid to open the enterprise.
“We have about 8 to 10 agents right now, which is really exciting… It made sense to open up a real estate company, just because I knew that it was something that I was interested in and wanted to do separate from my social media presence.”
Webb, who has 276,000 Instagram followers, defined that she needed a profession that was extra secure than modeling on the time — when that trade was a lot completely different than now.
“I had been modeling for about ten years and you know, my body has definitely changed from having three kids over that span,” she mentioned. “I knew I needed to have something more secure. As a backup plan, I chose to get my real estate license.”
Webb’s comeback plans
Webb is open to all new prospects and alternatives in 2025 — together with runway modeling and a possible return to Sports activities Illustrated.
“If an agency were to call me and be like, ‘hey, we’ve booked you for this awesome fashion show in New York,’ I would not hesitate to join,” Webb mentioned. “I reside for the runway. I adore it a lot. And I so far as the pictures goes, I won’t be a dimension two — that’s just a little bit extra of a typical that I’ve not been capable of reside as much as — I’m a superb 4, 5 or 6. I don’t reside in New York to have the ability to go to the castings loads.
“But I have more freedom now that my youngest is three. And so I, I feel as though it’s time for me to come out of my home and kind of get back out there. I do have a decent social media presence. It’d be kind of idiotic for me not to take advantage of that… I’m not one to strive for fame. I don’t, you know, I don’t put myself out there a lot to be famous. But if that’s something that God wants for me, then I’m fine to take advantage of it.”
Webb mentioned she “might consider” potential alternatives at New York Vogue Week in February.
She additionally plans to share extra magnificence and vogue content material on social media whereas working her actual property firm.
“I’m just I’m going along with the ride and seeing what can happen, and just having fun,” she mentioned.
Webb added that she not too long ago picked up golf and enjoys taking part in with McCarron.
“I think you can stay at home and be an angry wife over them being gone golfing all the time,” Webb mentioned. “I feel like if I can’t beat him, I’ll join him. So we’ll take our future trips different places and make sure they have a good golf course to give us something to do.”
McCarron’s subsequent chapter
McCarron, 34, who’s at present a free agent, was launched by the UFL’s St. Louis Battlehawks after two seasons final November.
“AJ’s getting towards retirement… whatever that looks like,” Webb mentioned. “He’s about to sign a podcast deal.”
She didn’t share additional particulars.
McCarron, 34, has but to formally retire from soccer.
“The main reason why he chose to do the XFL, the USFL, was because he knew that he would be able to play,” Webb mentioned. “He knew he was attending to the purpose age sensible to the place he was going to be phased out [of the NFL]. And so he acquired a name and was supplied to guide a group within the USFL group and he jumped on it. … That was actually thrilling for him to do, and the boys liked watching him play.
“I think in this next phase of life, he’s really excited to help coach his kids and their sports… I’ve always called him a mini Nick Saban with the way he coaches and the way he is. He’s always pushing people around him to be better and be the best that they can be.”
The previous NFL backup had success within the USFL and the XFL — which merged into the UFL final 12 months.
He led the league in passing touchdowns and passer ranking in 2023.
McCarron had a brief stint with the Cincinnati Bengals after franchise quarterback Joe Burrow’s season-ending harm in 2023.
Final month, he mentioned throughout an look on the “McCready and Siskey Podcast” he was not completed taking part in within the UFL — and that he discovered he was launched on Instagram.
McCarron added that he needed to “come back with a vengeance” in 2025.
