Lions QB Jared Goff and wife Christen Harper welcome baby girl
The Detroit Lions quarterback and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model announced the birth of their first child on Tuesday, daughter Romy Isabelle Goff.
The proud parents shared the news in a joint Instagram post, which featured black and white snapshots of the new addition.
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3 Model Christen Harper, the wife of Lions quarterback Jared Goff, in June 2025 before welcoming their daughter.
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Harper revealed she was expecting in February, when she stepped out visibly pregnant at the 2025 NFL Honors event in New Orleans.
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At the time, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit shared a video of Harper cradling her bump on the set of the magazine's 2025 issue, which she shot in Jamaica.
The brunette beauty looked stunning in a strapless one-piece bathing suit in her fifth consecutive year with the brand.
Last month, Harper said she did her last photo shoot before her daughter's arrival.
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'Just waiting for our girl,' she wrote on Instagram, including photos of Goff cradling her belly in late June.
Goff and Harper tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in California last June, two years after he proposed while on a trip to Mexico in 2022.
3 Christen Harper and Jared Goff got engaged in 2022.
3 The couple was first linked in 2019.
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The model was discovered through the SI Swim Search in 2021 and went on to share 2022 Rookie of the Year honors with her BFF, fitness enthusiast Katie Austin.
Harper previously shared that she immediately fell for Goff after first connecting on Raya, a dating app, in 2019.
They were first linked in January 2019, when Goff was with the Rams — and a month before Los Angeles faced Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII. The Rams lost, 13-3.
Harper confirmed their relationship that February when she shared a photo of herself arriving at the Super Bowl in Atlanta.
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