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Brittany Mahomes appeared in the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue as a rookie, shot on the beaches of Belize for the magazine’s 60th anniversary edition. Brittany grew up in Whitehouse, Texas, and by her senior year of high school was already turning heads as a forward, scoring 22 goals and earning Offensive MVP and All-East Texas honors. For a lot of people, that felt like a celebrity flex, another moment from the NFL’s most visible couple. But strip away the headlines and the Arrowhead Stadium cameras, and what you actually find is a woman who built something real long before Patrick Mahomes became a household name. Her path to that Mugler one-piece wasn’t through the NFL. It ran through a soccer field in East Texas. She was not chasing cameras. She was chasing a ball.
In 2020, when women’s soccer was not yet the smart investment conversation it is today, Brittany joined the ownership group that brought an NWSL expansion team to Kansas City. The franchise is now valued at $325 million, the second most valuable team in the league, and CPKC Stadium opened in 2024 as the first purpose-built stadium for a professional women’s sports team in the world. Because it didn’t come with a Super Bowl ring attached to it, that’s a genuinely full athletic biography, one that most people skipped reading.
At the University of Texas at Tyler, she became the first player in program history to record three hat tricks in a season. She graduated with a kinesiology degree, then spent a year playing professionally in Iceland before pivoting to fitness entrepreneurship. As Patrick’s NFL career exploded and the Chiefs kept winning, the intensity of scrutiny on Brittany grew with it. Trolls criticized her for how she celebrated her husband’s wins. She was called annoying, attention-seeking, fame-hungry. None of those accusations squared with the facts of who she actually was before any of this. Patrick joined two years later.