It’s been a wild trip for Chip and Joanna Gaines after assembly in 2001 in Waco, Texas, and getting down to make a life collectively.
The couple tied the knot in 2003, and share 5 kids, Drake, Ella, Duke, Emmie Kay and Crew.
Shortly after getting married, the pair started constructing a house in Texas — which included their first enterprise ventures, Magnolia Market and Magnolia Properties. They rose to fame almost a decade later once they landed their very own TV present, Fixer Higher, in 2012. Their household, nevertheless, has at all times come first.
“On the finish of the day, I like Jo greater than something on the earth,” Chip instructed E! Information in March 2020.
As soon as the sequence hit HGTV in 2013, the duo’s empire started to take off. They relaunched the market alongside a bakery on a 20,000-square-foot grain barn in 2015 — with meals vehicles and a nursery on the premises — referred to as the Silos, earlier than asserting in 2017 that the present that began all of it could be ending with its fifth season. The duo stepped away from the cameras later that yr with the ultimate episode airing in 2018, however Chip and Joanna didn’t let up when it got here to their Magnolia model. In July 2021, they launched their very own streaming channel referred to as Magnolia Community, accessible through Max, the place they’ve spinoffs corresponding to Fixer Higher: The Lakehouse and Fixer Higher: The Lodge.
Scroll right down to see their journey by means of the years — and their sweetest household moments:
