To a lot of people, Brittany Mahomes, née Matthews, is known for being the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes as well as the mother of the pair’s two children, Sterling Skye and Patrick Lavon Mahomes III. But Brittany is also a force all on her own.

Brittany and Patrick grew up together, and when the latter’s NFL career took off, their entire world changed. “I was not prepared for this,” Brittany told “CBS Mornings” host Nate Burleson. “At such a young age, we were in love and I loved him with all my heart but you know I didn’t expect it to skyrocket this soon and us, kind of just be thrown into the fire like this.” Even so, she’s proven time and time again that she can handle said fire.

While her husband certainly gets a lot of attention, there’s a lot that makes Brittany fascinating, too. Here are some facts about Patrick Mahomes’ wife, Brittany Mahomes.Brittany and Patrick Mahomes have known each other for quite some time. The two met in high school when they both attended Whitehouse High School in Texas. They first connected when she was a junior and he was a sophomore.

Patrick looked back on the early months of the pair’s relationship in a 2020 interview with Today. He told the outlet that since they were teenagers who had only been together for a relatively short while, their first Christmas together was pretty uneventful.

“I think at that point we had been dating for a couple months,” he recalled. “Just a normal teenage kid showing up at the family dinner type stuff and being nervous and everything.”

Brittany was also a strong presence on Patrick’s Instagram account at the time. In 2013 — the year before he graduated from high school — he shared photos of the pair getting ready to head out for their prom and wrote, “Best prom date a guy could ask for!! #prom2013 #bestfriend #greatnigh