Who is Pat McAfee’s wife Samantha McAfee? sports entertainer reportedly expecting second child

Pat McAfee and Samantha McAfee (Image via Instagram/mrsmcafeeshow)
Pat McAfee and Samantha McAfee (Image via Instagram/mrsmcafeeshow)

Pat McAfee and his wife, Samantha McAfee, are expecting their second child, a boy, in June next year. The news comes after the couple went through a difficult journey of IVF.

The couple are already parents to their daughter Mackenzee Lynn McAfee, whom they welcomed in 2023. They made the pregnancy announcement through an Instagram post, where they shared that their journey, “was filled with needles, hormones, countless appointments, and more emotion than we ever knew two hearts could hold.”

The sports entertainer and former NFL player married Samantha in 2020, more than a year after getting engaged to him in Hawaii. She is an animal rights advocate, social media influencer and an entrepreneur from Indianapolis, Indiana. She is also the founder and CEO of Fur The Brand, a non-profit organization raising awareness and financial support for canine cancer treatments.

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All you need to know about Samantha McAfee

Samantha McAfee grew up in a supportive family in Greenwood, Indiana. She was born in 1988 in Greenwood, Indiana. Her father Robert Nelson Ludy, who passed away in 2024, was a high school football trainer, a band musician, a longtime phone company employee. Her mother is Sue Lozier.

She graduated from Central Grove High School in 2007 and briefly attended the University of Southern Indiana to study veterinary science, but dropped out. She later redirected her passion towards animal welfare, becoming the founder and president of Fur The Brand. She was inspired to start the non-profit organization after one of her pet dogs, Valerie, was diagnosed with cancer earlier in life.

According to her Instagram profile, Samantha McAfee has two dogs named Valerie and Chuck. She also had a cat named Theodore.

Samantha McAfee met her husband at a bar in Indiana in the 2010s, and they began dating shortly afterwards. The couple decided to get engaged in February 2019 during a romantic trip to Hawaii in front of a waterfall. Sharing details about their dreamy proposal, Samantha McAfee wrote in the caption:

“He surprised me by having the pilot land at the bae of the biggest waterfall I have personally ever seen. As we were taking a cute photo at the waterfall it was at that moment my boyfriend became my fiancé.”

After taking their vows in 2020, they finally became parents to their daughter, Mackenzee Lynn McAfee. Samantha McAfee has openly shared about her struggles to expand her family. She reportedly suffered multiple miscarriages, had surgeries to remove both Fallopian tubes and had unexplained infertility.

In a note shared on her social media in 2021, she wrote:

“I want to take the time to uplift others that are also in pain. I want to remind people that fertility issues/miscarriages are very real. I want to remind any future mothers and fathers that are going through fertility issues to know you are not alone, you have an army behind you, not only your friends and family but all of us hopeful parents to be, let’s raise each other up and be there for one another and know that there is a way .. this is something I have to tell myself.”

Additionally, she also addressed important issues like mental health as she herself suffered the pain and anxiety.

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Edited by Aastha Dass