Tim McGraw and Religion Hill are nonetheless head over heels in love after 27 years of marriage.
To have a good time New Yr’s Day, McGraw posted an outdated picture of him with Hill, captioning it “Happy New Year!! 1999 and still goin strong!!!”
The image, taken about 24 years in the past, exhibits him standing behind Hill together with his arms wrapped tightly round her.
The country music superstars met in 1994 in Nashville. They have been each in relationships with different individuals on the time, and it wasn’t till she carried out as his opening act on a 1996 tour that they made a love connection.
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Tim McGraw shared an outdated picture of himself with spouse Religion Hill. (Getty Photographs/Tim McGraw/Instagram)
Wanting again on that point, McGraw instructed Folks, “We were young and silly and goo-goo-eyed in love.”
Hill, who was engaged to report producer Scott Hendricks on the time, later opened up about getting along with McGraw, telling the publication, “If someone is going to judge my character because I was engaged to somebody and then I left him for somebody else — ‘Oh, OK, now she’s a slut and a bad person’ — I can’t control that. But I wasn’t about to let Tim slip through my hands.”
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They have been married the identical 12 months they began relationship. In a 2021 video McGraw shared to social media, he admitted that earlier than his successful proposal, she turned him down quite a few occasions.
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That June, they have been acting at a competition.
“They had these trailer houses set up,” McGraw recalled. “I’m getting ready to go on stage, and I had this sort of case that had this big mirror in it. She’s standing there, and we’re talking, and I said, ‘Look, let’s get married.’ And she says, ‘You’re asking me to marry you at a country music festival in a trailer house.’ And I said, ‘Well, it’s pretty apropos if you think about it.’ She goes, ‘Are you serious?’ And I said, ‘Well yeah, I’m serious.’
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw met in 1994. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
“I got here off the stage and went again into my dressing room, and Religion wasn’t there, however I appeared on the mirror. In lipstick it stated, ‘Sure! I am gonna be your spouse.’ And we nonetheless have that mirror. And it was the perfect day of my life, that is for certain.”
They have been married Oct. 6, 1996, and the subsequent January, they revealed that they have been anticipating their first baby collectively. They welcomed their oldest daughter, Grace, in Could 1997. Their second daughter, Maggie, got here alongside in August 1998. In 2001, Religion gave delivery to a 3rd baby, Audrey.
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In August, McGraw instructed Apple Music host Zane Lowe, “I assure you, had I not gotten married to Religion at 29 years outdated, A, I in all probability would’ve ran my profession into the bottom, and B, I might’ve died already with my profession into the bottom, one or the opposite. And it would not have ever been the place it is at now.”
Faith and Tim have been married for 27 years and are still going strong. (Rick Diamond)
That month, the “Reside Like You Have been Dying” singer released his album “Standing Room Solely.” To celebrate the occasion, Hill posted about the record on social media, writing, “Nonetheless in any case this time and so many albums. You by no means stop to amaze me. You might be an absolute grasp of your artwork. In each means. Congratulations!!!!!! My love. We’re so pleased with you.”
While the two seem more than happy to gush about one another publicly, Hill has made it clear that she’s also comfortable appreciating his appearance in front of their fans.
When the album cover was released last summer, she shared the photo and captioned it, “Are you able to be any hotter.” She added a series of fire emojis, and signed her brief but supportive message, “Love you, Spouse.”
In November, McGraw confessed that while they clearly love each other, there are some disagreements from time to time, and music is what is most often at the forefront of those arguments.
Tim McGraw explained that some of his “largest disagreements” with wife Faith Hill involve music. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
“I imply, we’re two completely different artists. We do not at all times agree, musically. In actual fact, a few of our largest disagreements come once we’re placing a tour collectively,” McGraw admitted during Time magazine’s “Individual of the Week” podcast.
“Faith’s very type-A,” he explained. “I am a multitude. I am going to throw garments in all places. I imply, she’s at all times, consistently on me about choosing my garments up. I imply, I spent 30 years residing in a lodge … out and in. So I am simply consistently throwing stuff in all places, and he or she’s like, ‘You got to clean up after yourself.’”
McGraw admits his personality shifts when performing is involved.
“After I’m placing a present collectively, I am very type-A. I need all the things proper, in the precise place on the proper time. … And Religion desires to free-wheel it loads. Simply because she’s so proficient. And he or she [doesn’t] need to be constrained. So, among the occasions, we knock heads a bit bit, however we determine it out,” he clarified. “We at all times have a good time touring collectively.”
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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill attend the 33rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards Artists Reception April 21, 1998, at the Country Star Restaurant in Universal City, Calif. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Despite their differences, McGraw maintains that he and Hill always have each other’s backs.
“She’s my largest fan, I am her largest fan,” he said. “I play music for her on a regular basis. … Like I stated, we do not at all times agree. There’s songs that I’ve liked and placed on an album that she goes, ‘Ah, I don’t assume I might put that on an album.’ And vice versa. There’s songs that I’ve liked that she did not report that I assumed, ‘Man you should’ve recorded that.’
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“But she’s had enough success that I’ve been proven wrong so many times that I learned to trust her completely on what she wants to do. And she’s learned to trust me on what I want to do.”
Tim McGraw and Religion Hill share three daughters. (KMazur/WireImage)
When the couple first acquired collectively, McGraw says they have been aware of the “tough” circumstances in entrance of them.
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“We knew that it wasn’t gonna be easy for two people who do the same thing to stay together and stay together for a long time and raise a family, and we had a lot of long talks before we got married. And we knew what kind of family we wanted. We also knew, and made a promise to each other, that we weren’t gonna run out the door at the first sight of trouble. That we were gonna tough things out.”
Fox Information Digital’s Caroline Thayer contributed to this report.
