Kate Upton revealed she knew very little about the grueling MLB schedule when she met her future husband, Justin Verlander.
The actress and model, who added baseball WAG to her resume when she married the Astros pitcher in 2017, said she fell in love before realizing how chaotic her life would become.
“Being a baseball player’s wife is crazy, this schedule is crazy, it’s so long. I didn’t know that,” the 32-year-old said on Monday’s episode of the Chicks in the Office podcast.
“I fell in love accidentally. I had no idea there were so many games,” she continued.
Upton explained that MLB spring training begins in February, and is followed by the 162-game regular season that lasts six months from late March to late September.
Kate Upton knew very little about the MLB schedule when she met her future husband
She married two-time World Series champion Justin Verlander in 2017.
The postseason then continues for another month.
“There are no consecutive days off, just Mondays and Thursdays,” he said, joking that they were his favorite days of the week.
“I’m like, I don’t see it, especially when you start getting to the final playoffs when baseball is so exciting, but you’re like, ‘I haven’t seen my husband in months, they better win,'” she continued.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model continued: ‘Seeing someone you love out there and not having any control, it was a totally new experience, and there was already this nervous energy running through me like, ‘Oh no!’
“And I want them to do well and feel good, you know, he’s my husband. I want him to come home and be happy and not feel disappointed by how he played or what happened.”
“I fell in love accidentally. I had no idea there were so many games,” she admitted.
The actress and the pitcher met in 2012. They now share a daughter together.
Verlander made his MLB debut with the Detroit Tigers in 2005.
The two-time World Series champion has since spent six seasons in Houston, excluding a stint with the New York Mets in 2023.
Upton and Verlander met in 2012, and he got down on one knee in 2016.
They said “I do” the following year, just days after he won the World Series with the Astros.
They now share a six-year-old daughter, Genevieve “Vivi” Upton Verlander.