Michael Strahan's first wife is Wanda Hutchins. They married in 1992, had two children together, and divorced in 1996. Thirty years on, they're still close, which most celebrity breakups can't say.
Hutchins has stayed out of the spotlight, so much of what's online about her is thin or copied from page to page. This guide sticks to what established outlets have reported, and it flags the spots where they disagree.
How Wanda Hutchins and Michael Strahan met
Both Hello and Nicki Swift place the start of the story in Germany, where Strahan's father was serving in the Army. After that the accounts split. Hello says Michael met Wanda at 17 and married her at 20. Nicki Swift, citing a New York Post interview with Wanda's mother, says they first met at an American school in Germany when she was 12 and he was 14.
Both could be partly true, since kids who meet at school can date years later. No outlet spells that out, though, so treat the age of their first meeting as unsettled.
They married in 1992, in Denmark according to the Post. That was a year before the New York Giants drafted Strahan in the second round, so the wedding came before the NFL salary and the fame.
A handful of low-quality pages go further. They call Wanda a college sweetheart or a Texas high school classmate, and some print an exact birth date. None of them name a source, and they contradict the reporting above. Skip them.
Why the marriage ended
The couple divorced in 1996. Strahan explained it on In Depth with Graham Bensinger in 2023: they were young and out of their depth, kids trying to play adults. Wanda gave the same reason years earlier. "We were simply too young," she told the New York Post in 2006.
Distance didn't help. Wanda stayed in Germany with the children while Strahan built his career in the United States. He told People he spent those years on planes and phones to stay involved, and that the effort was hard but worth making.
When Strahan's second marriage fell apart in 2006, Wanda spoke up for him publicly. She told the Post she believed his account of that split because he doesn't waver once he commits to something. Exes don't usually do that.
Where is Michael Strahan's first wife now?
Wanda has kept a private life. According to her Instagram, as reported by Hello, she runs a home design company and still goes by Wanda Strahan. Nicki Swift names the business as Wandaful Home Design.
She also has a son, Dorian Hutchins. Dorian is not Strahan's child, yet Strahan wrote in Wake Up Happy that he looks after him like his own, partly so Tanita and Michael Jr. know their mother and brother are doing well.
Michael Strahan's kids
Strahan has four children from two marriages, plus a fifth reported this year.
Tanita, his oldest, was born in Germany on November 10, 1991, according to People. She's a visual artist based in Los Angeles who sells her work online. Michael Jr. followed on September 12, 1994, and Hello calls him the most private of the group. Both grew up in Germany with their mother until the move to Houston for high school. Both then went to college in Texas, and Michael Jr. graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Some outlets list Tanita's birth year as 1992 and Michael Jr.'s as 1995. People gives full dates, so this guide uses them. If People is right about Tanita, she arrived a few months before the wedding.
The twins, Isabella and Sophia, arrived on October 28, 2004, with his second wife, Jean Muggli. They grew up in a different household from their half siblings, and Strahan has said all four are very close. In January 2024, Isabella told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America that she'd been diagnosed with cancer.
His view, quoted by People: "brothers and sisters are brothers and sisters regardless of different mothers."
The newest addition is a baby girl, born in 2026 to Strahan and his longtime girlfriend, Kayla Quick, according to TMZ. The couple hasn't posted a formal announcement that we could find.
Michael Strahan in brief
Strahan was born in Houston on November 21, 1971, and played college football at Texas Southern. The Giants took him with the 40th pick in 1993. He spent 15 NFL seasons with New York, helped the Giants win Super Bowl XLII in his final season in 2007, and went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014.
On television he co-hosted Live! with Kelly and Michael from 2012 to 2016, winning two Daytime Emmys, then moved to Good Morning America full time. He's also an analyst on Fox NFL Sunday.
His marriage record is short. Two weddings, Wanda in 1992 and Jean Muggli in 1999. The second split was far less friendly than the first. He has dated Kayla Quick since 2015.
Sources
- Hello Magazine: What happened between Michael Strahan and his first ex-wife Wanda
- Nicki Swift: Who Is Michael Strahan's First Wife?
- People: Meet Michael Strahan's Blended Family
- People: Michael Strahan's 4 Kids
- People: All About Michael Strahan's Twins
- TMZ: Michael Strahan Secretly Welcomes Baby With Girlfriend
- Hello Magazine: Michael Strahan welcomes baby number 5
- Biography.com: Michael Strahan
- Wikipedia: Michael Strahan
