Justin Verlander is a professional baseball pitcher who has played 20 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, New York Mets, and San Francisco Giants. He won the World Series in 2017 and 2022 and is a 9-time All-Star and 5-time AL strikeout leader. He signed a one-year, $15 million deal with the Giants in January 2025. According to Spotrac, his total career earnings are $409 million.
In early 2014, Verlander began dating model and actress
Kate Upton. They got engaged in 2016 and married in a medieval church in Tuscany, Italy, in November 2017. They welcomed their daughter, Genevieve Upton Verlander, in July 2018 and a baby boy, Bellamy Brooks Verlander, in June 2025.
Kate Upton is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model and Hollywood actress known for Tower Heist [2011], The Three Stooges [2012], The Other Woman [2014] alongside
Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann, The Layover [2017], The Disaster Artist [2017], and Sweet Dreams [2024].
Horseback rider in childhood and Sports Illustrated cover model in teens
Katherine Elizabeth Upton was born to athletic parents, Shelly and Jeff. Her mother is a former state tennis champion from Texas, and her father is a high school athletic director. She attended Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy. As a child, she was a competitive horseback rider and won numerous national championships.
In 2011, Kate appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue’s body paint section and was named Rookie of the Year.
In 2012, she was ranked the fifth sexiest model by Models.com and was on Maxim’s Hot 100 list. The next year, Upton appeared on the 2013 SI Swimsuit Issue. The shoot took place in Antarctica, where she experienced hearing and vision problems due to the extreme temperatures.
Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, American GQ, and Cosmopolitan
In 2012, Upton appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia and on Vogue UK in 2013. That year, she was named Model of the Year at the 10th annual Style Awards at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. She appeared in editorials for Vogue in the U.S., Italy, Brazil, Spain, Germany, and the U.K., as well as Harper’s Bazaar, American, Italian, and German GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Glamour, Mademoiselle, LOVE, and V.
Justin Verlander and Kate Upton combined net worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, the MLB WAG’s net worth is estimated at $20 million, while the American baseball pitcher’s net worth is estimated at $200 million. Their combined net worth is about $220 million.
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