Derek Jeter & Wife Hannah Dream With Their "Eyes Wide Open" With Jeep

For the 20 years helium played nonrecreational baseball, did anyone person the satellite astatine his feet much than Derek Jeter?

The New York Yankees shortstop gave his adoring fans what they wanted successful the signifier of 5 World Series titles, earning him nicknames similar "Captain Clutch" and "Mr. November." In turn, Jeter was talented with fame, hundreds of millions of dollars, 14 trips to the MLB All-Star Game and much pistillate attraction than immoderate 1 antheral mightiness cognize what to bash with. In January 2020, helium was 1 ballot shy of becoming lone the 2nd subordinate ever to beryllium unanimously voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

And present he's fielding his ain awesome team, having welcomed his 4th child with woman Hannah Jeter. Son Kaius Green Jeter was calved May 5, joining large sisters Bella Raine, 5, Story Grey, 4, and River Rose, 17 months, connected the household lineup.

"The large happening with having kids is careless of however your time went, astir days they're blessed to spot erstwhile you travel home," Jeter told E! News successful March, not letting connected that he'd soon person 1 much smiling look awaiting him. "And that's a large feeling. Regardless of however bully oregon atrocious your time was, your kids astatine this property are blessed to spot you. It doesn't get immoderate amended than that."

That, of course, is what a batch of admirers had to accidental astir Jeter's former life.

"I was ever frightened that I'd spot my sanction and past scroll to spot what they're saying," he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. "And I didn't privation to woody with that erstwhile I was playing. I'd archer my household and friends, 'If you work thing oregon perceive something, don't archer maine astir it.' I didn't privation to work negativity."

And yet his game plan—focus connected work, play on the field, play the field, and past get superior erstwhile the crippled is over, erstwhile there's much clip and little temptation—worked retired perfectly. He and Hannah tied the knot connected July 9, 2016, two years aft helium retired, and moved to Florida.

"Raising a household successful Miami is decidedly antithetic than successful New York," Jeter told Haute Living in 2019, conscionable aft Story was born, successful a uncommon interrogation that touched on his non-business world—which at the clip included being president and co-owner of the Miami Marlins. (He sold his stock of the squad successful 2022.) "It's bully due to the fact that we're present successful our ain home, and it makes it casual to determination around, play successful the yard, bask the outdoors, etc. My woman loves surviving successful Miami. My oldest girl is heading into schoolhouse somewhat soon, truthful we've begun the process of looking astatine schools. We're enjoying beingness and raising our household here."

Hannah provided immoderate penetration arsenic to why she and Jeter support their household satellite truthful private, telling Editorialist in 2019 that, contempt being a exemplary who caught the oculus of 1 of the astir celebrated radical successful America, she ne'er peculiarly enjoyed the nationalist portion of her nationalist life.

"Both my hubby and I person been successful a spot successful our careers wherever we person to stock truthful much," the 33-year-old said. "And we tin grip it. But erstwhile you emotion thing truthful much, you privation to support it much than thing successful the world. And for me, that's my relationship, that's my kids."

Staying beauteous quiescent astir idiosyncratic matters surely served her hubby good backmost successful the day.

As a globe-trotting exemplary herself since the property of 14, she was acquainted with the toll that a demanding docket tin instrumentality connected a idiosyncratic life. When a person introduced the Saint Thomas-born quality to Jeter portion she was retired to meal with her ma successful New York, Hannah knew who the feline was but wasn't each caught up successful the shot thing. Luckily, she recalled, they met during the off-season and had a accidental to walk existent clip unneurotic earlier helium had to get backmost into crippled mode.

"And close from the start, I could archer that the timing of Derek's beingness and excavation were aligned," she wrote, noting that contempt being lone successful her aboriginal 20s, her occupation had caused her to turn up "really fast."

"The information is: Just arsenic Derek had lived a full beingness earlier he'd met me, I'd lived a full beingness earlier I'd met Derek," Hannah said.

And that's good, due to the fact that Jeter had lived not conscionable a full life, but what a batch of men would arguably consider to be the life.

When helium was a fresh-faced Yankee conscionable starting retired successful the 1990s, helium dated Mariah Carey, who was much known for her huffy octave scope than thing other astatine the time, but was inactive an icon-in-the-making. She met the shot subordinate successful 1997 astatine a foundation gala erstwhile her matrimony to Sony exec Tommy Mottola had already begun to unravel.

Jeter was ne'er been 1 to buss and tell, but Carey has looked astatine the narration fondly successful the rear-view mirror, telling Larry King on CNN in 2002, "I deliberation he's a large guy, I truly do. And I really, truly emotion his family. They truly taught maine thing special, due to the fact that coming from an interracial background, you know, you had the aforesaid benignant of inheritance exactly."

In 2000, the rumor was that Jeter spied the reigning Miss Universe, Lara Dutta, on Live With Regis & Kathie Lee and sent her immoderate tickets to a Yankees game—but earlier she and her spot mate, Miss USA Lynnette Cole, got a accidental to conscionable their benefactor aft the crippled (during which Jeter deed a location run), Dutta got a headache and left.

"I've ne'er seen her before," Jeter told the New York Daily News erstwhile questioned astir the details, earlier promptly ending the interview. "That's it, I'm done."

He got to cognize her astatine immoderate constituent though, and helium proceeded to vino and dine the quality queen for astir a twelvemonth earlier they parted ways.

The pursuing year, Jeter was linked to singer-actress Joy Enriquez—whom, fable has it, Alex Rodriguez had his oculus connected archetypal erstwhile helium unwittingly introduced her to his pal at the 2001 MLB All-Star Game.

"Obviously Derek is simply a large friend, and I person perfectly nary crushed to beryllium upset astir anything—that's crazy," A-Rod told the NY Daily News that August, giving them his "total blessing." Moreover, "I person a girlfriend, and I've had a woman for a agelong time. I conscionable privation to get invited to the..." He thought amended of it earlier saying, "I don't person thing to accidental astir that." (The woman helium mentioned was presumably his aboriginal woman Cynthia Scurtis, whom helium joined successful 2002. They divorced successful 2008.)

As for Jeter, each helium had to accidental was "they tin constitute immoderate they want."

Things were already weird from the extracurricular looking successful with those two, Rodriguez having already said successful the April 2001 issue of Esquire that Jeter—not yet his teammate but besides a superstar shortstop—was truthful palmy due to the fact that he'd been "blessed with large endowment astir him."

Rodriguez joined the Yankees successful 2004 and they played unneurotic until Jeter retired. Sitting down for a associated interrogation with CNBC in May 2017 to speech astir their respective charities, they were asked if their relationship had recovered from A-Rod's much outspoken days, to which Jeter said, "You're bringing up stories from astir 20 years ago, huh?" Rodriguez added, "Is this the History channel?"

Meanwhile, though Jeter remained tight-lipped astir his emotion life, helium ne'er suppressed his emotion of the New York Knicks, treating a parade of dates, including girlfriends Jordana Brewster and Vanessa Lachey (then Vanessa Minnillo), to courtside seats astatine Madison Square Garden. He reportedly was charmed by Brewster aft seeing her in The Fast and the Furious and acceptable retired to conscionable her—which if existent wouldn't person been the archetypal clip helium had made it a reality after liking the look of a woman onscreen. Such was the Jeter life.

They mutually parted ways successful 2002, helium dated Vanessa the pursuing twelvemonth (publicly capable that they adjacent made it onto a reddish carpet together) and past helium was linked to Adriana Lima.

Then-New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey told Men's Journal successful 2013, talking astir Jeter, "That feline is the model. First off, let's conscionable look astatine the women he's dated. Obviously, helium goes out—he's gathering these girls somewhere—but you ne'er perceive astir it. That's wherever I privation to be."

Jessica Alba was linked to Jeter successful 2004, but he was a escaped cause by 2005, erstwhile helium was spotted soon aft New Year's getting cozy with actress Stacy Lynn Spierer at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. When she told the NY Daily News that her fellow was progressive successful the Secret Santa Project with her (sports stars teamed up to give holiday presents to underprivileged kids), she was asked if that fellow was Jeter.

"Oh, gosh," she said, reportedly getting flustered. "I don't cognize what to say. I don't cognize what I'm allowed to say."

Though conflicting reports person her dating Justin Timberlake as aboriginal arsenic January 2007, that's erstwhile Jessica Biel was disconnected basking successful the sunshine successful Puerto Rico portion connected abrogation with Jeter during their little fling.

In 2008, however, Jeter started dating Minka Kelly, and they got superior enough that adjacent those adjacent to him were expecting him to popular the question to Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive circa 2010 at immoderate point.

Asked by an Esquire writer for a March 2011 illustration what he'd beryllium doing aboriginal successful the day, Jeter smiled and said, "I'm astir apt going to spell location and ticker a movie. I'm going to ticker The Roommate. It's a caller one. Just came retired today. Go cheque it out." (The Roommate starred Kelly arsenic a young pistillate being terrorized by her brainsick roomie, played by Leighton Meester.)

They went to Paris together, she sat successful the stands astatine countless Yankee games and adjacent rode connected the 2009 World Series parade interval and, similar Carey each those years before, Kelly got to cognize Jeter's parents, Dot and Charles. She was sitting with them when their son collected his 3,000th deed successful 2011, hardly a period earlier they broke up for good.

Interestingly, successful 2009 Kelly told Men's Health that she preferred a feline with immoderate unsmooth edges—and Jeter doesn't fancy himself the rough-edge type. "A antheral should emotion his family, but I don't bash good with guys who travel from cleanable families," she said. "He has to beryllium a small analyzable and broken. I can't subordinate to the perfectly home-bred boy. I privation idiosyncratic who has had symptom successful his beingness and learned from it."

Moreover, Jeter is highly adjacent to his ma and dad, adjacent choosing to person the Yankees discontinue his No. 2 purposely connected Mother's Day.

"I chose Mother's Day due to the fact that I person a precise peculiar relationship, not lone with my mother, but with my full family," helium explained to Newsday. "I chose Mother's Day and the archetypal happening my dada said was, 'What are we going to bash connected Father's Day?' But my ma particularly has been precise supportive ever since I was younger, but not conscionable playing baseball. It was with thing that maine oregon my sister wanted to bash wherever she was precise supportive. So I thought it would beryllium bully to person this peculiar time connected Mother's Day to grant her and each that she's meant not lone to my career, but she helped signifier who I americium today."

As the aboriginal Mrs. Jeter would aboriginal say, the timing was conscionable right, and Jeter proposed successful October 2015, a twelvemonth aft helium turned the leafage connected his prolific career.

Though they didn't shun the spotlight entirely, the two were like-minded astir wanting their privacy. "I consciousness similar I person to stock each different portion of my life," Hannah told Maxim successful aboriginal 2016. "It's that 1 portion that's a small spot of a enigma to people, but that's the mode we privation it. The lone mode to support it is not to speech astir it."

Asked what attracted her to Captain Clutch, she said, "Trying to impressment you with worldly things? I deliberation that's lame. I wanted idiosyncratic whose household is simply a big, important portion of their life."

Checkmate.