LeBron James and his beautiful queen, Savannah James, marked an incredible milestone. They are celebrating ten dynamic years of marriage. During the past decade, they have had ten times the love, ten times the joy, and ten times the happiness! Along their road to forever, they have also welcomed three exceptional kids: LeBron "Bronny" James Jr., Bryce Maximus, and Zhuri Nova.
As the power couple presses toward the next ten years, here's a glimpse of their storybook romance.
Their puppy love began as teenagers in Akron, OH. The high school athlete was a junior at St. Vincent-St. Mary and young Savannah was a 16-year-old sophomore at Buchtel High School, as cited by The Independent. In 2017, she opened up to Cleveland Magazine about how they met and said a friend spilled the tea that LeBron had a crush on her. After getting his number, Savannah attended one of his games, followed by dinner dates to Apples Bees and Outback Steakhouse, as reported by PEOPLE.
LeBron told The Hollywood Reporter she has been a constant force in his life, even in the early days of his career. “[Savannah] was down when I was at my high school, no cameras, no lights. And she was there with me. You wouldn’t be talking to me right now if it weren’t for her,” he told the outlet.
The couple welcomed their first child, LeBron "Bronny" James Jr., on October 6, 2004, while Savannah was a senior in high school. This was also the athlete's rookie year in the NBA. For the new mom, she was nervous. "I was thinking, 'What am I going to tell my parents? What's going to happen to his career?' I was very scared. I was bawling. But [LeBron] said, 'It's not going to slow me down, and it's not going to slow you down. We're going to keep doing what we have to do,'" she told Harper's Bazaar.
James asked for his leading lady's hand in marriage on New Year's Eve in 2011. The following year, he revealed to Oprah Winfrey what led him to pop the question. "I had been thinking about it, you know, for a while, but it just came to me one day, and I was like, 'This is a part of growth for me,'" he said. "And this is the lady, the woman I've been with, through all the good and all the bad. She's been there for a long time, and I wanted her to continue to be there with me, so I felt like at that moment it was time."
And they have been amazing couple ever since.
