He Popped Up as Her Suggested Friend on Instagram. After She Gave Him a Follow, Her Entire Life Changed (Exclusive)

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He Popped Up as Her Suggested Friend on Instagram. After She Gave Him a Follow, Her Entire Life Changed (Exclusive)

Luke ChinmanOctober 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Victoria Gibson, the wife of Patriots running back Antonio Gibson, sat down with PEOPLE for an interview about the highs and lows of life as a WAG

She describes her journey from being a flight attendant with no knowledge of football to the biggest cheerleader at Gillette Stadium

Gibson says that — despite the glitz and the glamor of life in the NLF — she and her husband appreciate a quieter domestic life, including family picnics and trips to the state fair

Victoria Gibson is very transparent that she was not a football fan when she started dating New England Patriots running back Antonio Gibson.

Antonio was in the midst of his rookie season for the Washington Commanders (called the Redskins at the time) — and Victoria didn't even recognize the team's name.

"I had to Google what 'Redskins' was because it sounded really familiar," she tells PEOPLE, completely seriously. "I only attended Super Bowl parties for the Rotel dip and for the halftime show. So no, I didn't know anything about football."

Of course, that would change in good time: Five years and five seasons later, Victoria is all football all the time. On game days, she hauls her three kids and extended family down to Gillette Stadium to watch her husband play.

And when it's not game day, she's living the life of a WAG — attending team picnics, organizing tailgates and bonding with the other wives and girlfriends of the team's players, who she says have become her "community" amid the craziness of the NFL.

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Victoria Gibson and Family

But before she was spending her Sundays in stadiums, Victoria was a flight attendant living in the Washington, D.C., area, fresh out of a long-term relationship and working long hours. Antonio, who happened to go to the same high school as Victoria outside of Atlanta, appeared on her Instagram as someone she might know.

"He looked familiar," she remembers, so she gave him a follow, not expecting much would come from it, especially because of his blue check mark. "I thought he was too busy — too popular — but he was like, 'Hey, I remember you from high school.' And then later on he asked me out on a date."

On that first date, they just clicked. Says Victoria: "He felt like a piece of home."

"Even though we didn't know each other, we knew a lot of the same people," she continues. "We grew up going to a lot of the same places."

But Antonio was also getting out of a relationship, and neither was looking for anything serious. The pandemic hit, Victoria was furloughed and she was expecting to move back home to Georgia, meaning they couldn't be together anyway.

While she was on a trip visiting home, however, he texted her, indicating that his feelings were a bit stronger than he had initially let on. They got on the phone, and he told her that he didn't want their relationship "to be a sometimes thing, he wanted it to be an all the time thing," recalls Victoria. When she got back to D.C., they started seriously dating.

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Victoria Gibson and Kids

Though she loved Antonio, Victoria admits that her first season as a WAG was "really lonely": She got pregnant with their first kid two months into dating, and while carrying their child, Antonio was busy with his rookie season on the Commanders.

But the second season was a bit different. Antonio signed her up for the team's official group for wives and girlfriends, where she was able to start to grow her community of other NFL families. And it wasn't just the partners of the players, says Victoria, the group included the family members of coaches and the equipment team and desk attendants and analysts.

"It's nice that they open it up to the whole community," she says. "You find people that you can relate to. And then people start getting together outside of it, hosting gatherings at their homes and watch parties."

While her husband was with the Commanders, Victoria was one of the youngest WAGs, so some of the older WAGs took her under their wing, she says. Together, they'd attend parties for holidays — Halloween, Christmas and New Year's — in addition to the regular tailgates before games.

"I just loved seeing everyone out on the dance floor, like I didn't know you moved like this," she remembers of their wildest festivities. "They'd go all out with the decorations — that was a lot of fun."

Following the 2023 season, Antonio's four-year rookie contract with the Commanders expired, and he was signed by the Patriots. So their family picked up and moved from D.C. to Foxborough, Mass. With the Patriots, Victoria says she's built a new kind of community: attending the women's bible study for the team and bringing her kids to team picnics, complete with blowups and face painting.

"They do a lot of nice things for us," she says of the team.

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Victoria Gibson and Kids

For Victoria, game days are a family affair — first wrangling her little ones, and then heading down to the field, where she'll see the rest of the WAGs. Earlier this season, Victoria hosted her first tailgate since her husband joined the Patriots: Families brought food, danced to some music and made a few TikToks.

As for the game itself, she usually finds herself cheering on her husband in the stadium's family section, and then she heads to the stadium's family dining area when her husband is finished playing for a team meal.

She was also thrilled when she found that rapper Cardi B was expecting her fourth child with Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs — because it meant she was joining the ranks of the other Patriots WAGs. Victoria even put out a video on TikTok inviting the rapper to their tailgate because that was the only way she could think of to get in touch with her.

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Victoria Gibson

"If she shows up, I'll embrace her with open arms," laughs Victoria. "I would love to meet her because I feel like she has good energy."

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As fun as the WAG life can be, Victoria acknowledges that it also comes with a lot of "unstableness" — not knowing how long your partner may remain healthy and able to play or even how long they might stay on the same team.

"I'm extremely blessed and fortunate, but I'm also a little on edge," she says. "I think about it — is this the year we have to move again? You could have to go from the East Coast to the West Coast."

But, Victoria notes, family always comes first: She and Antonio tied the knot earlier this year, and they've agreed that they wouldn't split the family up if he were moved to another team.

To that end, she continues, they still carve out time to spend together even during the madness of the regular season schedule: The day after Antonio's jaw-dropping 90-yard kickoff return touchdown propelled the Patriots to a win against the Miami Dolphins, for instance, he, Victoria and the kids took a trip to the iconic Big E state fair for some family fun.

"We love spending time with our kids," says Victoria, noting that she and her husband have settled into a quieter domestic life in the past few years. "That's the kind of thing we do."

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