Michael Strahan joined Wanda Hutchins successful 1992, months earlier going No. 40 to the New York Giants successful the 1993 NFL Draft.

Daughter Tanitha was calved Nov. 10, 1991, and lad Michael Jr. arrived Sept. 12, 1994.

Wanda and Michael divorced successful 1996 and Michael Jr. and Tanita chiefly lived successful Germany with their mother.

"But from time one, it was precise important for maine to beryllium active, to beryllium a portion of their life,” Michael recalled to People in 2016. "I was perpetually connected planes and phones. And it’s precise hard...But 1 happening I learned is, you marque clip for what you privation to marque clip for."

Still, the Super Bowl victor has admitted to immoderate regrets from his days arsenic a young father. 

"I didn't cognize what my aboriginal was gonna be," Michael told Brooke Shields connected an August 2023, occurrence of her podcast What Now? "I knew I'd enactment hard. I knew that if I had an opportunity, I would bash my champion astatine it. But it was inactive tough."

He was "so young," the Pro Football Hall of Famer continued, "and having kids and having each the responsibilities, I bash look back, and I bash privation I did a batch of things amended arsenic acold arsenic being a genitor due to the fact that I felt similar determination was truthful galore times I should've astir apt sacrificed definite things successful bid to beryllium a small spot much present."

That being said, Michael continued, "then determination are times I've looked back, and I deliberation successful bid to person the beingness that I've been capable to supply and springiness them, I had to sacrifice a batch of things."

Michael Jr. and Tanita yet moved backmost to the U.S. and attended precocious schoolhouse successful their father's autochthonal Houston, according to People, past studied science and art, respectively, successful college.

Tanita is "kind of similar maine successful the consciousness that she has a precise beardown personality, but a soundless beardown personality," Michael told New York Family in 2012. "She’s not going to beryllium 1 to locomotion into a country and marque it each astir her. She decidedly has an sentiment and she’s precise astute and she knows what she wants, which I emotion astir her."

He called Michael Jr. a "very smart" and "very peculiar young man."

Ultimately, Michael said, "I person large kids, and they’re not the benignant who look astatine my beingness and accidental 'Daddy's this' and 'Daddy’s that.' My kids are funny successful making their ain way. They person their ain personalities and bash their ain thing. I'm blessed to spot that."

Tanita graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising successful 2014 and, according to her Instagram, is surviving and moving arsenic an illustrator successful Los Angeles.

"What an unthinkable pistillate she’s become," ma Wanda wrote of her girl connected Instagram successful 2018. "It’s been an implicit privilege to locomotion the way to adulthood and beyond with her. Creative, determined, and astir of each kind."

On Michael Jr.'s day that aforesaid year, Wanda wrote, "His sarcastic humor, intelligence, discipline, and kindness animate me."

Michael met 2nd woman Jean astatine a New York spa, wherever she was moving astatine the time.

They joined successful 1999 and—as the New York Times reported successful 2006 erstwhile they were successful the mediate of an acrimonious divorce—signed a prenuptial statement that acceptable speech 20 percent of Michael's net per twelvemonth to spell to Jean should they interruption up.

The antiaircraft extremity signed a seven-year, $46 cardinal declaration with the Giants successful 2002.

“Personally, getting divorced is astir apt 1 of the toughest things I’ve ever gone through," Michael recalled to People in 2016, "but it was besides a learning acquisition and I learned a batch astir myself and I learned a batch astir a batch of the radical who were astir astatine that clip and immoderate aren’t astir anymore."

On a sunnier note, Michael and Jean welcomed duplicate daughters Isabella and Sophia connected Oct. 28, 2004.

Isabella, who's somewhat older, is "more playful, precise chill, ne'er gets precise upset oregon fired up," Michael told New York Family. "She’s very, 'It is what it is.'" 

And Sophia arsenic "always asking questions, precise curious. They’re some precise smart; they emotion to work each these things I ne'er thought of speechmaking erstwhile I was 7 oregon 8 years old. And they bash it due to the fact that they’re mostly funny successful it, which is astonishing to me."

"My kids person a antithetic upbringing than I had, but the emotion is the same," Michael told People in 2016, explaining however helium and Jean had been co-parenting successful the 10 years since finalizing their divorce. "The content successful them is the same."

It turned retired that Isabella and Sophia, who lived portion clip with their ma successful North Dakota and North Carolina, had inherited the good-on-camera cistron from their father.

“The twins unrecorded a brainsick life," Michael told People in 2016. "One clip they flew retired to D.C. and interviewed the archetypal woman for GMA. Then the adjacent time their ma was sending maine a video of them riding horses and splashing astir successful a muddy maize field."

During the schoolhouse year, "I get connected a plane, and I alert to spot my kids," helium continued. "And whenever they get a break, they travel to New York. The hardest portion is erstwhile they leave—the vigor successful the location is not the same...They’re not the archetypal kids and I’m not the archetypal big to woody with it, but we’ve each handled it arsenic good arsenic we can."

Sophia finished up astatine NYC's Trinity School successful May 2023 and past it was connected to Duke University successful Durham, N.C.

"You are intelligent, beautiful, and I can’t hold to spot each of the astonishing things you are going to execute astatine Duke," the Blue Devil's dada wrote connected Instagram.

The fam celebrated Isabella's graduation from Convent of the Sacred Heart successful June 2023 and Michael cheered the aboriginal Trojan connected her acceptance to University of Southern California.

"Intelligent, beautiful, and hard-working!!" helium posted connected Instagram. "I can’t hold to proceed to ticker you shine!! Love you!"

In January 2024, Isabella shared—her dada by her side—that she was undergoing attraction for encephalon cancer, having been diagnosed with a tumor known arsenic a medulloblastoma the erstwhile October.

Having had country and radiation, she inactive had chemotherapy up of her. But, Isabella said successful a sit-down with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts, "I'm looking guardant to getting backmost to assemblage and moving backmost to California and conscionable starting my schoolhouse acquisition over. Not over, but conscionable restarting, being backmost into a regular and thing that's enjoyable."

After getting unneurotic successful 2007, Michael spent 5 years engaged to Nicole—who shares 5 kids with ex-husband Eddie Murphy—before they went their abstracted ways successful 2014.

Michael's rep said astatine the time, "They emotion each different precise much, but with the region and enactment docket it has been hard to support the relationship."