Who Is Nicole Johnson? Michael Phelps' Wife Expecting Baby Number Three

PHOTO: INSTAGRAMWho Is Nicole Johnson?

Rebekah Kuschmider  April 1, 2019

Michael Phelps and wife Nicole Johnson announced they're expecting their third child.

Michael Phelps and his wife Nicole Johnson have announced that they are expecting their third child together. The new baby will join big brothers Boomer and Beckett, who are 2 and 1 years old respectively.

The swimmer and the former pageant queen got married in 2016 after years of off-and-on dating. Since then, they have share parenting duties as well as doing charitable work through her husband’s foundation, which provides swimming lessons to unreserved kids.

Who is Nicole Johnson? Read on to learn everything about her.

1. Miss California USA
At 17 years old, Nicole spotted an ad for Miss Teenage California. She entered the pageant in the hopes of winning a scholarship and placed as the first runner up. She enjoyed the process so much that she kept competing and was crowned Miss California USA in 2010. She went on to compete in the Miss USA pageant and placed ninth overall.

She loved the pageant system, saying “People think pageant girls are snotty, cutthroat, self-absorbed. Everybody that I meet in the industry is so kind, giving, and they are some of the most amazing women."

2. Helping kids
Her platform as a competitor was preventing child abuse and she worked with Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families, which helps children who have faced abuse and neglect. She also does work with the Michael Phelps Foundation, which offers swimming instruction to kids who might otherwise not have that opportunity and promoted water safety. 

3. Career
In addition to her pageant work and charitable work, Johnson has a degree in communications, with a concentration in sports and entertainment from the University of Southern California. She has worked as an ambassador for INTA Gems & Diamonds, the official crown jeweler of Miss California USA, and even became an accredited jewelry professional with the Gemological Institute of America.

After that, she worked for restaurant loyalty program MOGL and was employed as a communications director for YP, formerly known as Yellow Pages.

4. Romance
She started dating Michael Phelps in 2007. The pair were together until 2011 when they split for a while but they never got over each other. Nicole told Access Hollywood about the split and reunions.

“I'm pretty sure we both shared stuff with our parents and were like, 'Oh, this is it, there's no way we are getting back together.’ And then when we finally did, it was still a little rocky and figuring things out, figuring each other out because it had been some time. But we didn't miss a beat."

In 2015, Phelps recounted “said to a couple of my friends if I ever had the chance to get her back, that would be it. She was the one I loved the most. Her and I have been on and off for eight years. It's been a long time. We've been through a lot. But I love her to death. We've been able to grow as a couple through everything we've been through, the positive changes I've made in my life.”

The pair got back together in 2014. By 2016, their first child Boomer came along and they got married in a private ceremony about a month after his birth. They followed that up with a formal ceremony in Cabo later that year. 

5. Parents
After Boomer, they didn’t waste any time adding to their family. Son Beckett arrived a little over a year after Boomer was born and the couple really likes the age difference. Phelps told Parade, “This is something Nicole and I always talked about was having kids close in age. They’re able to grow up together. For me, it’s taught me more patience. We are very blessed to have two amazing kids so far.”

6. New baby
Adding a third baby to their family was always on their radar, even when Nicole was still expecting their second son Beckett. Phelps told Entertainment Tonight at that time “We always talked about three, so second one is on the way. We’ll see what happens. We’re going man-to-man now, and it’s probably going to be more challenging.”

The couple is now expecting baby number three later this year.

Rebekah Kuschmider has been writing about celebrities, pop culture, entertainment, and politics since 2010. Her work has been seen at Ravishly, Babble, Scary Mommy, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and she is a cohost of the weekly podcast The More Perfect Union.

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