Odd Facts About Faith Hill And Tim McGraw's Marriage

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have one of the most enduring marriages not just in country music, but possibly in Hollywood as a whole. The unfairly attractive couple have been married since 1996 and share three daughters, Gracie, Audrey, and Maggie. They don't just share a family, they also share a brand: They've toured together and even recorded an entire album of sugary duets, "The Rest Of Our Life." That brand is lucrative, especially on the road. Hill and McGraw's first joint tour in 2000, dubbed Soul2Soul, grossed $47.8 million; their second, Soul2Soul II from 2006 through 2007 grossed a whopping $141 million — making it the highest grossing country tour of all time; their 2017 Soul2Soul World Tour raked in $71.3 million.

In the early stages of Hill and McGraw's couplehood, Hill was the bigger star, enjoying crossover pop success with "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me" in the late 1990s. McGraw said during that period, while Hill did press, McGraw stayed home and watched the kids, joking he was just "Mr. Hill" at the time. Eventually, the tables turned and Hill's crossover success waned while McGraw became a country megastar — and when they first teamed up to work together, their careers soared higher than ever.

While they're blissfully in love, like any other couple, Hill and McGraw have plenty of idiosyncrasies. Behold, odd facts about the aesthetically blessed country crooners' marriage ... that will all still make the rest of us jealous.

Faith Hill was engaged to record producer Scott Hendricks when she hit it off with Tim McGraw in 1996 — and she doesn't regret it. "If someone is going to judge my character because I was engaged to somebody and then I left him for somebody else —' Oh, okay, now she's a slut and a bad person' — I can't control that," Hill told People in 1998. "But I wasn't about to let Tim slip through my hands." She noted to Good Housekeeping in 2004 of her engagement to Hendricks, "It obviously wasn't a rock-solid situation or it wouldn't have ended."

McGraw, meanwhile, admitted to Billboard that he had a girlfriend when he first met Hill in 1994 — and his girlfriend felt threatened by McGraw's chemistry with the blond bombshell. "For me, there was an intense physical attraction. I guess my girlfriend saw it in my eyes," he recalled. "She said, 'I don't want you around her.'"

In a joint interview, McGraw and Hill both admitted to People that their romance was very "cat and mouse" on tour, and McGraw confessed he didn't think he had a shot with Hill at first until he kissed her for the first time, after which, he said, "Things started snowballing from there." He later revealed on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" that he wooed Hill over with chicken and dumplings. If you're wondering, no, they actually couldn't be any cuter, but thanks for asking.

Before becoming one of country music's most beloved supercouples, the duo initially struggled to get down the aisle, but not for the reason you may think. McGraw was keen to marry Hill sooner rather than later and even proposed multiple times to his lady, as she kept turning him down despite dating for a long time. "I actually asked her to marry me quite a few times and she kept saying no," McGraw revealed in an X post. "She said, 'I'm not going to get involved with another country singer, it's just not going to work out.'"

But McGraw eventually won over the "Breathe" singer, and the pair became engaged in 1996. McGraw recounted the romantic proposal on the couple's 25th wedding anniversary, sharing the story of how he point blank asked her to be his bride right before a performance. "She's standing there, and we're talking, and I said, 'Look, let's get married,'" he shared in the post. "And she says, 'You're asking me to marry you at a country music festival in a trailer house.' And I said, 'Well, it's pretty apropos if you think about it.'"

Needless to say, after McGraw finished his performance, he found a special message from his then-fiancée that sealed the special deal. "In lipstick [on a mirror] it said, 'Yes! I'm gonna be your wife,'" he recalled. "And we still have that mirror. And it was the best day of my life, that's for sure."

Since the inception of their romance, one of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's hallmarks has been their frequent public displays of affection and openness about their love lives with the public. Pictures speak a thousand words: Whether they're making goo-goo eyes at one another while performing together (especially "Let's Make Love"), swapping spit onstage or on red carpets, or getting grabby in full view of fans, McGraw and Hill really love to love each other.

Hill confirmed as much to People when she commented on the fact that their tour bus was nicknamed "The Love Bus," admitting to the magazine, "A lot goes on in that bus." They've extended their sweetness to social media, often posting with and about one another on Instagram.

Music writer and McGraw's former publicist Holly Gleason put it plainly to People: "Watching Tim and Faith onstage is like two hours of total foreplay. It's sexy. It's adult." This performance of "I Need You" from their October 2017 Soul2Soul tour just drives it home.

Not only did Tim McGraw get seriously ripped over the years, he also got sober in 2008. He admitted to "Oprah's Master Class" in 2014 (via Huff Post) that he needed "liquid courage" to perform live before he quit drinking. "I got to the point where I knew I drank too much. I knew that it was affecting my personal relationships, it was affecting my professional relationships, it was affecting my family," he recalled. "It was turning me into a person that I didn't want to be ... I was at a point where I could lose everything that I had in my life, first and foremost, my family. It [was] time to stop. And I stopped."

McGraw admitted to People that without Hill, "I'd be dead. Oh yeah, I would have partied too hard. I might have caught myself somewhere along the way and put the brakes on." He didn't go to rehab or participate in a 12-step program, he says: "I just stopped." He added, "Well, I had some help in deciding [to stop], but it was the right thing to do. You get to the point where you just want to be present for your kids, and you want them to be proud of you, and you start being really concerned about what their memories are. It's all about knowing when."

Despite Tim McGraw and Faith Hill being very demonstrative about how head over heels they are for one another, for whatever reason, the couple is often plagued by rumors of marital discord. It doesn't faze Hill and McGraw, but it irks them a bit. Hill told People in 2000, "I've had an affair with my makeup artist, a female; an affair with my hairstylist; my marriage is on the rocks; Maggie is not Tim's child. The naysayers. I don't need their approval. I have too much going on. If that's their entertainment, fine."

In 2013, the couple denied reports that they were divorcing. In 2018, a source claimed to Closer Weekly that Hill was horrified after McGraw collapsed onstage for fear he may have been drinking again, but it turned out the crooner was just very dehydrated — but that if there had ever been a time they may not have made it, it would have been then. Clearly, they did make it, and everything was fine, but that hasn't stopped similar gossip headlines from continuing to pop up. Still, as it stands, the couple remains as blissfully happy as ever, haters be damned.

As Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's three daughters grew up, the couple eventually began to meet their children's chosen partners. But on one occasion, McGraw, who himself has a famous father, made a questionable first impression on daughter Gracie's new boyfriend. After coming home from touring and preparing for a backyard barbecue, the "Live Like You Were Dying" crooner requested his child's new beau come meet him face-to-face at the family home where he accidentally made a strong impression.

"I have a white apron on and a knife and I'm trimming meat up, so I've got chunks of meat all over this white apron, blood everywhere," he recalled on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." "The doorbell rings and I go and answer the door, and here's this kid who's dating Gracie standing there. I've got a knife in my hand and a bloody apron on!" Despite appearances, the visit ended up being a success. "It worked out really well!" he assured the audience.

Now that the "Let's Make Love" lovers are empty nesters — as all three of their daughters have left home to go out on their own — they've used that time to strengthen their marriage in new ways, like working together on the "Yellowstone" spin-off show, "1883." Despite finding new chemistry on screen together, they admit that they still miss the normalcy they created as their kids were growing up. "I'm not going to lie — it's very hard to let go," Hill admitted to People. But overall, they are proud of the time they spent and continue to spend as a family as their brood grows into their own lives. "Our job is to give them roots and wings," Hill continued. "Sometimes that's an easier thing to say than others."

While some fans are saying that Faith Hill looks completely unrecognizable with her new look, she and husband Tim McGraw have been known to trade their beauty products and try them out on each other. The "This Kiss" singer claims that her husband is known for stealing her La Mer eye cream, and it's something that she has to monitor to preserve her supply — and sanity. "I have to put it on him," she revealed to Redbook Magazine. "He doesn't gently pat it on like you're supposed to — he just rubs it all around."

The couple's fondness for beauty products led them to create their own pair of signature scents, "Soul2Soul." The his-and-hers fragrance set highlights what the duo said are smells that relate to their love story and the attractions they find in one another. "It's like how we approach singing together: We each bring different things to the table, but our key similarities are where the sparks fly," McGraw explained to the publication.

That being said, one half of the country music power duo did have a bit more say than the other when it came down to finalizing their fragrances — with Hill having "veto power" over some of McGraw's decisions. "Well, I'm not gonna make anything she doesn't like," he admitted.

As with many couples, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have learned a lot about each other, including what makes each other tick. The pair spends much of their time at home and cooking for one another and their family, something they take great pride in. "We're sort of homebodies," McGraw admitted to ET. "We're always around the house, so we spend a lot of time together anyway ... We enjoy just cuddling up and watching movies, TV series."

But McGraw's one habit that really annoys Faith Hill is something that, for better or worse, the "Humble and Kind" artist purposely inflicts upon his wife. While Hill is a bit of a clean freak, McGraw is less orderly — which he knows drives his wife crazy. "I spent 30 years in hotel rooms going in and out, so I've never even thought about cleaning up," he admitted to the outlet. "But she's a neat freak, so she likes everything pretty clean. So I always get on her nerves about that."

Even with their differences, McGraw praises his wife for being a strong role model for their daughters and for others. "She has a heart just as big as her voice," he gushed about his longtime love. "She loves me unconditionally, which says a lot 'cause there's a lot of conditions of me."

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have joined forces in more than just marriage and music. In 2021, the couple starred together in "1883," the dramatic prequel to the wildly popular series, "Yellowstone." They portray ancestors of the main characters in the latter series, specifically a former Confederate soldier and his wife who join a wagon train heading West shortly after the Civil War. Even with their comfort with each other personally, there was still some awkwardness on set when it came to filming steamier scenes.

In particular, Hill has expressed some caution she faced when acting out a bathroom scene where she shaves her on-screen (and real life) husband's beard. "That was tough, although [the crew] made it comfortable," she admitted to Variety. "[Director] Taylor [Sheridan] made it comfortable for us — well, for me. Tim was like, 'Let's do it. Yeah. Jump in. I'm ready to go. Don't need to cover that up. Just let everybody see.'"

For McGraw, his surprise at his wife's physicality made him fall into his role even more. "She blew me away every single day," he gushed on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." "She was so nervous ... [but] she showed up every day and just blew me away. She elevated my game." She especially upped the ante during a scene where she slapped her husband's character — and held nothing back. "It was like Rocky hitting me," he joked to host Jimmy Fallon. "We didn't want to do a TV slap; we wanted to do a real slap. But after about the eighth take ... I was concussed a bit."

After almost 30 years together, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are still going stronger than ever as a couple. Even though many have wondered if Hill has a higher net worth than McGraw, as well as what happened to Hill after she deleted her social media, the pair have focused on ways to keep the love alive in a second "honeymoon phase" as they navigate life without their children at home.

"Tim and Faith are able to shed their inhibitions and walk around the house half naked if they want, not that they do that all the time," an insider claimed to Closer Weekly. They've also turned to changing their personal styles and looks to keep things current and interesting with each other. "They're making a real concerted effort to jazz themselves up," the insider continued. "For Tim, that means spray tanning and manscaping rituals. For Faith, it means an edgier look."

But no matter what the longtime pair does with their newfound freedom, they still prioritize time together on planned vacations and other trips despite their busy schedules. They also continue to praise one another both in private and in public in terms of their professional and personal gifts. When it comes to their shared talent of performing, being able to do it together is something neither take for granted. "It's rare that people get to do that in this business, that a husband and wife get to go on tour at the pinnacle of their careers and get to do stuff together," McGraw shared on Tracy Lawrence's "TL Road House" podcast. "More importantly, she makes me a better artist every time I have to sing with her."