Nothing scandalous ended it. Michael Strahan and Wanda Hutchins married in 1992, divorced in 1996, and by Strahan's own account they split because they were too young for it. Wanda Hutchins has stayed out of the press ever since, and the two still raise their kids as a team.
That's tamer than the search results suggest. Some pages that rank for her name put the wedding in 1995, another moves the divorce to 2006, and at least one calls her a former NFL cheerleader. I couldn't find any of that in Hello, People or Strahan's own interviews, so this piece sticks to what those sources say.
How they met
Strahan was 17 and living in Germany, where his father was serving in the Army, when he met Wanda. Hello reports they married in 1992, when he was 20. EssentiallySports adds that they met at an American school overseas.
The kids arrived fast. Tanita was born around the wedding (outlets split between late 1991 and 1992), and People reports that Michael Jr. followed on September 12, 1994.
Why Wanda Hutchins and Michael Strahan divorced
Age, mostly. On Graham Bensinger's show in 2023, Strahan called the two of them "kids trying to play adults." He said they both realized they were out of their league, and that they reached the decision to part together rather than one of them forcing it, per Hello.
Hello adds that he put it the same way in his book Wake Up Happy: they would stop being married and stay family.
I found no credible report of an affair, a lawsuit or a public fight. His second divorce, from Jean Muggli in 2006, is the one Hello describes as far less friendly. Wanda's was the quiet one.
Two kids, one ocean
The paperwork was the easy part. Wanda stayed in Germany with Tanita and Michael Jr., while Strahan went back to the US and the NFL. That left a father trying to be present from thousands of miles away.
He told People that after a split, people tend to assume the mother handles the parenting, but "from day one, it was very important for me to be active" in his kids' lives. He has said he spent a lot of time on planes and phones, and that distance made it hard.
The geography shifted over time, and reports don't line up perfectly on the order. People says Michael Jr. was raised in Germany until he was 11, when he moved to Houston.
By the time of a 2016 People cover story, both Tanita and Michael Jr. had finished high school in Houston and were in college in Texas. Hello says Strahan later moved Wanda and the children back to the US after his NFL deal, and that she still lives in the States.
Wanda later had another son, Dorian, who isn't Strahan's child. Hello says Strahan wrote in his book that he looks after Dorian as he would his own, partly because he wants Tanita and Michael Jr. to know their mother and brother are well cared for. That's an unusual thing for an ex-husband to put in print.
People also notes that all four Strahan kids, including the twins he has with Jean Muggli, are very close despite having different mothers.
What Wanda Hutchins does now
She runs a home design company, according to Hello, and her Instagram still lists her as Wanda Strahan. EssentiallySports names the business as Wandaful Home Design. Hello's line on her is that she has avoided the spotlight her whole life, and nothing I found suggests that has changed.
That privacy is also why exact personal details are thin. Her birth date isn't confirmed in the major outlets, so treat any site that lists one with suspicion.
Where to check this yourself
Most of the quotes above trace back to two places: Strahan's 2023 conversation with Graham Bensinger and his book Wake Up Happy. Start there before you trust a page that gives you a precise marriage date, a birthday or a job title for Wanda Hutchins that neither of them mentions.
Sources
- What happened between GMA's Michael Strahan and his first ex-wife Wanda? (Hello, June 2024)
- Who Are Michael Strahan's Ex-Wives? (EssentiallySports, January 2025)
- Michael Strahan's 4 Kids: Everything to Know (People, via Yahoo)
- Meet Michael Strahan's Blended Family (People 2016 cover story, via Yahoo)
