It’s been a wild ride for Chip and Joanna Gaines after meeting in 2001 in Waco, Texas, and setting out to make a life together.
The couple tied the knot in 2003, and share five children, Drake, Ella, Duke, Emmie Kay and Crew.
Shortly after getting married, the pair began building a home in Texas — which included their first business ventures, Magnolia Market and Magnolia Homes. They rose to fame nearly a decade later when they landed their own TV show, Fixer Upper, in 2012. Their family, however, has always come first.
“At the end of the day, I love Jo more than anything in the world,” Chip told E! News in March 2020.
Once the series hit HGTV in 2013, the duo’s empire began to take off. They relaunched the market alongside a bakery on a 20,000-square-foot grain barn in 2015 — with food trucks and a nursery on the premises — called the Silos, before announcing in 2017 that the show that started it all would be ending with its fifth season. The duo stepped away from the cameras later that year with the final episode airing in 2018, but Chip and Joanna didn’t let up when it came to their Magnolia brand. In July 2021, they launched their own streaming channel called Magnolia Network, available via Max, where they have spinoffs such as Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse and Fixer Upper: The Hotel.
Scroll down to see their journey through the years — and their sweetest family moments:
