Who manifested who? While the details of Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers’ whirlwind relationship haven’t all been revealed, one thing is for sure: The couple are head over heels for each other.
According to Woodley, the pair met sometime in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. Though rumors about a potential romance were sparked in July 2020, the relationship was kept tightly under wraps for some time after. Fans only found out the couple were dating a few days before their engagement was announced on February 6, 2021.
Rodgers previously dated race car driver Danica Patrick. The two began dating in January 2018 and broke up in July 2020. The former pair met in 2012 at the ESPY Awards, years before their romance began.
“We both remember meeting each other, it was quick,” Patrick said on Jenny McCarthy‘s SiriusXM show in May 2018. “I got his email address, and I remember thinking to myself, ‘Oh, not a phone number? Just an email address?’”
Before Rodgers, Woodley dated rugby player Ben Volavola. The relationship was first confirmed when the activist posted an Instagram picture holding Volavola’s hand in 2017.
Following their breakup, the Divergent actress opened up to Bustle in April 2020 about her love life, admitting she’d previously used relationships to “distract” from getting acquainted with her own self.
“I was in a relationship with someone and we were very much on the road to marriage and children,” she said. “I realized I was still at an age where I wasn’t able to fully commit. I couldn’t be available to him in the way that I wanted to be. I didn’t fully love myself.”
Both Woodley and Rodgers are fans of mindfulness. After announcing his engagement at the NFL Honors Dinner, the Super Bowl champion reminded people “to read books, to meditate, speak things to life, manifest the desires of your heart, question everything and spread love and positivity.” Woodley has previously spoken about her relationship with anxiety and meditation as well.
While more background on this couple is sure to come, quite a bit is known about the pair. Scroll through for a timeline of their relationship:
Rodgers split with girlfriend Patrick after more than two years together. In a statement to Us Weekly on July 16, 2020, Patrick’s rep confirmed that the pair were “no longer together” after she unfollowed him on Instagram.
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Sports gossip blog Terez Owens first reported on Rodgers’ relationship with Woodley, speculating that Woodley had something to do with Rodgers and Patrick’s split.
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Without revealing too much, the NFL star opened up about recent changes in his personal life. “I have a new and increased love of life, and I have made decisions and changes and habits that put me in a lot better headspace," he explained on The Pat McAfee Show on September 22, 2020. “There’s just a lot of things that have come together in my life over the last few months that have really been enjoyable.”
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Engaged! Days after the insider confirmed the pair were dating, Rodgers made a big announcement at the February 6, 2021, NFL Honors awards.
“2020 was definitely a crazy year filled with lots of change, growth, some amazing, memorable moments, 180 straight days of having my nose hair scraped, playing for very little fans or no stands the entire season. I got engaged and I played some of the best football in my career,” the Green Bay Packer said. He then listed a bunch of people to thank before shouting out “my fiancée,” without naming her.
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Woodley confirmed the engagement during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on February 22, 2021, giving viewers of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon a peek at her sizable engagement ring.
“I never thought I’d be engaged [to] somebody who threw balls for a living,” the Big Little Lies actress joked, noting the couple had been engaged “for a while.” Woodley also confirmed the pair met during the coronavirus pandemic, remarking that she’d actually never seen her fiancé play football.
“We met during this whacky, whacky time and all the stadiums were closed that he was playing in. I didn’t really grow up with sports, especially American sports. It was never really on my radar,” she explained. “When we met, also, I knew he was a football guy, but I didn’t know like what kind of a football guy he was. And I’m still constantly learning.”
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In her best supporting actress Golden Globes acceptance speech on February 28, 2021, Jodie Foster gave a shout-out to the sports star, causing fans to wonder if she’d played a role in setting her The Mauritanian costar up.
“I did not set up Shailene and Aaron,” the actress told Us Weekly and other reporters in the press room following the event. “I have never met Aaron Rodgers, but it is possible that I do like to talk about Green Bay Packers and sometimes I can talk a little bit too much about that. So, of course, Shailene was very aware of my enthusiasm for the team.”
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The quarterback said during an Instagram live interview with Zenith Watches' CEO Julien Tornare on March 4, 2021, that “there’s been a lot of good” in his life as of late. Still, his engagement to the actress had been the high point. “Obviously that’s the best thing that’s happened to me in the last year,” he said.
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The couple were seen spending time in Arkansas in March 2021, nearly two months after they revealed they are engaged. The duo were all smiles in a photo shared by a local restaurant at the time. They held hands when posing for the snap, after eating a meal at the Best Breakfast Café at the Best Court boutique hotel in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. One day prior, the athlete and the actress were seen boarding a plane together from Mexico.
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