Jared Goff will be spearheading the Detroit Lions' NFC Divisional Round game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after a first playoff win in 32 years, defeating the Los Angeles Rams, his former team, in the wild-card round. And supporting him through it all has been his fiancee, Christen Harper.
Harper is a model and actress from Valencia, California, with four credits to her name. The 30-year-old starred in "The Obituary of Tunde Johnson," "Auggie," "Seven's Eleven" and in one episode of "Entourage".
Along with her acting credits, Harper perhaps is best known for her modeling career, as evidenced by her massive social media following. On her Instagram, TikTok and Twitter accounts, she has around 700,000 combined followers, with her Instagram account having over 520,000 followers.
Her TikTok account is also popular, with her videos having garnered over two million likes. What's more, her videos have been played anywhere between a few hundred thousand to over six million times.
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Of note, her TikTok videos with Goff tend to be the more popular of her videos, with some garnering at least a few hundred thousand times to the millions. With how close the two have been since they started dating in 2019, it would surprise some to know that the star quarterback and Harper first met on a dating app.
Harper revealed that she first began talking to Goff on the dating app Raya, a private, membership-only dating app and shared that she didn't expect things to go the way they did with Goff.
"I was truly not looking for anything at the time," Harper told Sports Illustrated. "I had just gotten out of a long relationship and I was trying to stay single for a year. Then I met him and the rest is history, baby."
After three years of dating, Goff proposed to Harper during a vacation with friends to Los Cabos, Mexico in June 2022. As Goff's fiancee, Harper has been very supportive of the quarterback's career, regardless of where it takes the couple, even if takes them across the country.
Although Harper is based in California, she didn't hesitate to join Goff after he was traded to the Lions in exchange for Matthew Stafford. "We've always been in California, so there was an excitement to a fresh start, but at the same time, my whole career has been in L.A. and I did not know what it was going to look like moving away from that," she said to the New York Post.
"I feel lucky to kind of start branching out into doing different things. I think the space allowed me to do that because if I stayed in L.A., I probably would have continued to do the same work I've done for years."
Now in Detroit, Harper has made the most of her time with Goff, as she is often seen celebrating with the quarterback after their wins. Harper is often on the sidelines at Lions games as well, seen wishing her fiancee good luck.
As Goff continues to lead the Lions deeper into the playoffs, with his next matchup being against Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers, it is more than assured that Harper will be there to support her partner through the ups and downs. Regardless of what happens in the Divisional Round, the two will approach it in stride, just like they did when they had to move across the country.
