Swimming legend and 28-time Olympic medallist Michael Phelps, who reportedly spared no words expressing his disappointment at the US men’s swimming team’s performance at the Paris Olympics , was spotted supporting Team USA at the Olympics women’s basketball game with wife Nicole Johnson and their infant son. {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson attend the women’s basketball quarter-final between the US and Nigeria at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on August 7.
Photo: Xinhua","url":"https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/13/a5040077-f2c1-4b6b-97b2-d6fa61598d5e_78b59ede.
jpg"} Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson attend the women’s basketball quarter-final between the US and Nigeria at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on August 7. Photo: Xinhua Johnson wore red and blue, and even had her nails painted in patriotic colours, in support of the American team against Nigeria at the August 7 quarter final. Team USA defeated their opponents and went on to win the gold medal.
The former Miss California is often seen at sporting events seated beside Phelps, with one or more of their four sons in tow. Apart from being married to an Olympian legend, here’s everything we know about Nicole Johnson. Nicole Johnson is a former beauty queen {"@context":"https://schema.
org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Nicole Johnson has competed in a number of beauty pageants. Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram","url":"https://img.
i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/13/84d6fda6-7e5c-4c30-a143-1e3831ab6b8a_7390c88c.jpg"} Nicole Johnson has competed in a number of beauty pageants.
Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram Johnson, 39, was 17 when she saw an advertisement for Miss Teenage California, a scholarship pageant that could help fund her education. She finished as first runner-up out of 304 contestants, per Thousand Oaks Acorn newspaper.
From then on, Johnson went on to compete in several pageants, finding success when she was crowned Miss California USA in 2010. “I love being onstage and competing in pageants,” said Johnson during a 2010 interview with Thousand Oaks Acorn. “It’s an empowering position to be in, where you’re comfortable in your own skin.
” Johnson went on to compete in the Miss USA 2010 pageant where she placed ninth. She used to work in marketing {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Nicole Johnson entered the Miss Teenage California pageant for a shot at a scholarship to fund her education.
Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram","url":"https://img.i-scmp.
com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/13/542d47f3-1073-4936-8fbc-ae35454ed30c_82832968.jpg"} Nicole Johnson entered the Miss Teenage California pageant for a shot at a scholarship to fund her education. Photo: @mrs.
nicolephelps/Instagram After graduating from the University of Southern California in 2007 with a degree in communications, Johnson went on to work in marketing for a Mercedes-Benz dealership. Johnson also worked for the Miss Universe organisation as a recruiter in 2011. She tapped Alyssa Campanella, who would go on to win Miss California and Miss USA in 2011.
How did Michael Phelps meet his wife, Nicole Johnson? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Nicole Johnson and Michael Phelps had an on-and-off relationship after meeting in 2007. Photo: @m_phelps00/Instagram","url":"https://img.
i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/13/bb9d6312-a4ec-45b2-bf3b-18b5092f749b_c45807b1.jpg"} Nicole Johnson and Michael Phelps had an on-and-off relationship after meeting in 2007.
Photo: @m_phelps00/Instagram Johnson met her then future husband while working as an athlete escort at the 2007 ESPY Awards, according to People. Phelps was presenting an award and Johnson was assigned to escort him – but he wasn’t her first choice. “My wife was my escort here 10 years ago, [when] she was working with ESPN.
It’s funny, she always tells the story like, ‘I wanted somebody different,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, thanks, honey – really, really like that,’” Phelps told Entertainment Tonight at the 2017 ESPY Awards. “She’s like, ‘Everything works out for a reason.’” The couple had three weddings in one year {"@context":"https://schema.
org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Once wasn’t enough: Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson exchanged vows thrice. Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram","url":"https://img.
i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/13/6fdebdaf-10a4-4009-a783-c07a5d41c4ab_d7491f3d.jpg"} Once wasn’t enough: Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson exchanged vows thrice.
Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram After meeting in 2007, the pair were reportedly on and off for several years before eventually finding their way back to each other in 2014. The couple secretly tied the knot in June 2016.
In October that same year, they exchanged their vows again in a second, intimate wedding ceremony in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Then, on New Year’s Eve, they held a third ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Talk about the third time being the charm.
They have four sons {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson have four sons, the youngest having been born this year. Photo: @mrs.
nicolephelps/Instagram","url":"https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/13/34f418eb-f006-40c9-8b5e-09af76f4b914_77e70e99.
jpg"} Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson have four sons, the youngest having been born this year. Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram Per People, Johnson and Phelps are parents to sons Boomer, eight, Beckett, six, Maverick, four, and Nico, whom the happy couple welcomed in January this year.
What has Michael Phelps said about his wife? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Nicole Johnson goes to therapy to help her help hubby Michael Phelps with his mental health issues. Photo: @mrs.
nicolephelps/Instagram","url":"https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/13/1ef2e9f5-2081-4fc8-8d62-32484c273eef_cb6c0b7f.
jpg"} Nicole Johnson goes to therapy to help her help hubby Michael Phelps with his mental health issues. Photo: @mrs.nicolephelps/Instagram Phelps, who has openly struggled with anxiety and depression , credits his wife for standing by him through it all.
“For 15 years, Nicole has seen me go up and down,” Phelps said in a 2022 interview with Today. “There’s no other person that would be able to support me like she has. She’s the glue that holds all of us together.
” “I’ve been able to truly find my best friend, somebody who’s seen me on my best days and my worst days and, so far, she hasn’t run yet,” Phelps added, per People. During a 2021 interview with Today, Johnson revealed that she also works on her mental health and goes to therapy. “It’s helping me with everything.
It’s support for me,” she said. “But more than anything, therapy provides me with the tools to be able to help Michael properly.” Of course, 28-time Olympic medallist Phelps would have choice words for the US men’s swimming team at the Paris Olympics, which he watched with his wife Nicole Johnson and infant son Nico The couple met in 2007, when Johnson was working for ESPN, and had an on-off relationship until they finally got married in 2016 – they now share 4 sons together.
