Inside Kerri Walsh Jennings' Marriage To Casey Jennings

Posted by Reinaldo Massengill on Friday, May 3, 2024

Kerri Walsh Jennings and Casey Jennings got married on December 4, 2005. Their fairytale wedding in La Quinta, California was featured on the Lifetime series "Get Married." "Yeah, it was the best day of my life, for sure," Jennings said.

But the couple's wedded bliss didn't last long. Ahead of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kerri Walsh Jennings made a shocking admission about her marriage. She told USA Today that Casey Jennings almost left her in 2008 while she was pregnant with their first child. "At the time, my husband was done," she recalled. She revealed that her intense focus on her volleyball career was negatively impacting the rest of her life. "In putting my head down and going to work, I disconnected from my husband and my family," she said.

To save their marriage, Walsh Jennings enlisted the help of sports psychologist Michael Gervais, and Jennings went to rehab for alcohol abuse. After six months of work on rebuilding their relationship, Walsh Jennings saw the light at the end of the tunnel. "Every day was just really gnarly but beautiful. You know, growth is beautiful," she said. Her second pregnancy would be a much happier one — she won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics while she was six weeks pregnant. Now, she puts her marriage ahead of work. "My relationship with my husband is my biggest priority," she told The Local Moms Network

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