Joanna and Chip—who married in 2003—share sons Drake, 17, Duke, 14, and Crew, 4, and daughters Ella, 16, and Emmie, 12.

And though Joanna’s again damage prevented her and Chip from their second date in 2001, the couple nonetheless managed to push by and nail their marriage—however the actuality star would not fairly say it was love at first sight.

“For one factor, I used to be sometimes drawn to guys who have been extra on the quiet facet,” she defined in Magnolia Journal in 2021. “Primarily based on our first date, it was clear that Chip was something however quiet. He was all over, speaking concerning the companies he’d began, and these concepts he had, and the way he was  shopping for up little homes and flipping them, and I used to be questioning if he was only a bit loopy.”

However within the greater than 20 years since, the house renovation duo have constructed fairly a life—and life-style model.

“Chip and I had already proved in our personal relationship what can occur once I let one thing develop on me as an alternative of constructing a snap judgment or an unwavering conclusion at first look,” she concluded the Magnolia letter. “Chip calls it my ‘gradual sure’ and I’ve discovered to belief it above all else in issues of each work and residential.”