The Making of a Power Couple: How Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines Became #Goals
If Joanna Gaines were to pen her love story, she likely wouldn't use terms like fairytale romance. Love at first sight would be out as well. Rather when pragmatic, methodical Joanna Stevens sat across from goofy, eternally optimistic Chip Gaines back on that first date in late 2001, she was already mentally writing him off as a forever prospect. "For one thing, I was typically attracted to guys who were more on the quiet side," she explained in Magnolia Journal's summer issue. "Based on our first date, it was clear that Chip was anything but quiet.