It has been three years since Kate Upton and Justin Verlander stepped into their ‘happily ever after’. They have been titled one of America’s most loyal couples and their string of snuggling pictures on the baseball player’s field is much adored. Kate started dating Justin in 2014 and two years later the couple got engaged. The model-actress and Justin tied the knot in 2017 and welcomed their daughter into the world next year.
But who was the Sports Illustrated model’s dating life before marriage? Well, seeing the list we do not want to jump to conclusions but we can see an athletic pattern on the list of her ex-boyfriends.
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1. Maksim Chmerkovskiy
The relationship between Kate and the ‘Dancing With The Stars‘ pro lasted the last six months of the year 2013. The reason for the split was “distance”. However, according to DailyNews, Kate had started getting more serious than Maksim, a decade older to her. She had started looking for an apartment in Manhattan to be closer to the Ukrainian ballroom dancer. This news “panicked” Maksim and soon they broke up.
Maksim married a fellow dancer Peta Murgatroyedthe same year as Kate married Justin. He has been on a dancing tour with Peta and both have a daughter together.
4. Mark Sanchez
The Jets quarterback and the swimsuit-wear model were linked way back in 2011 when Mark was seen sneaking into Kate Upton’s apartment late at night hiding under a wooly hat. Initially, Mark declined the rumors stating they were “friends” and Kate refused to give a comment. But soon enough, the Victoria’s Secret model was seen on the side-lines on the Jets-Cowboys game in September. By 2012 the two of them had broken off as she took her witty humor to Twitter. “Its okay Notre Dame this happened to the Jets every week,” she wrote in her post after the Jets were ruthlessly defeated.
In May 2022, the former NFL player got engaged to actress, Perry Mattfeld while on a vacation in the Caribbean. It was an intimate and emotional evening for the ‘In The Dark’ star. Perry was not expecting a proposal four months after they reunited.
3. Blake Griffin
The Sports Illustrated beauty has been very private about her romantic life and alas the story between this particular Clippers player also remained a rumor. In 2013, Upton and Griffin were seen grabbing dinner with their friends and the two of them seemed to get cozy with each other and held hands. For how long they dated it cannot be determined. But she was single by the next Valentine’s Day, as confirmed by her.
Later the basketballer got engaged to Brynn Cameron but broke up with her in controversial news to get together with Kendall Jenner. Till date, Blake is single and has two children with his ex-fiancé, Finley Elaine Griffin and Ford Wilson Cameron-Griffin.
4. Sean Faris
Kate Upton, who had modeled for Victoria’s Secret, is rumored to have a casual fling with actor Sean Faris. The ‘Never Back Down Actor’ and ‘The Other Women’ were paired in 2013. Though both would have made one of America’s hottest couples, the two didn’t pursue anything serious with each other.
In September 2017, Faris and actress Cherie Daly exchanged vows and on March 2022 they announced Instagram the birth of their first child Phoenix Warren Faris birth.
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