Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are still madly in love after 27 years of marriage.
To celebrate New Year’s Day, McGraw posted an old photo of himself with Hill, captioning it “Happy New Year!! 1999 and I’m still going strong!!!”
The photograph, taken about 24 years ago, shows him standing behind Hill with his arms around her.
The country music superstars met in 1994 in Nashville. They were both in relationships with other people at the time, and it wasn’t until she performed as an opening act on a 1996 tour that they made a love connection.
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Tim McGraw shared an old photo of himself with his wife Faith Hill. (Getty Images/Tim McGraw/Instagram)
Recalling that time, McGraw told People, “We were young, dumb, and doe-eyed in love.”
Hill, who was engaged to record producer Scott Hendricks at the time, later opened up about her relationship with McGraw, telling the publication, “If someone is going to judge my character because I was engaged to someone and then left him for someone else, — ‘Oh, okay, now she’s a whore and a bad person.’ I can’t control that. But I wasn’t going to let Tim slip through my fingers.”
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They got married the same year they started dating. In a 2021 video that McGraw shared on social media, she admitted that prior to his successful proposal, she rejected him multiple times.
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That June, they were performing at a festival.
“They had these RVs set up,” McGraw recalled. “I’m getting ready to go on stage, and I had this kind of case that had a big mirror. She was standing there, we were talking and I said, ‘Look, let’s get married.’ And she says, ‘You’re asking me to marry you.’ at a country music festival in an RV.’ And I said, ‘Well, if you think about it, it’s kind of appropriate.’ She says, ‘Are you serious?’ And I said, ‘Well, yeah, I’m serious.’
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw met in 1994. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
“I walked off stage and went back to my dressing room, and Faith wasn’t there, but I looked in the mirror. In lipstick it said, ‘Yes! I’m going to be your wife.’ And we still have that mirror. And it was the best day of my life, that’s for sure.
They married on October 6, 1996, and the following January they revealed that they were expecting their first child together. They welcomed her eldest daughter, Grace, in May 1997. Her second daughter, Maggie, was born in August 1998. In 2001, Faith gave birth to a third daughter, Audrey.
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In August, McGraw told Apple Music host Zane Lowe: “I guarantee you, if I hadn’t married Faith at 29, A, I probably would have ruined my career and B, I would have died.” With my career on the ground, one or the other. And I would never have been where she is now.”
Faith and Tim have been married for 27 years and are still going strong. (Rick Diamond)
That month, the “Live Like You Were Dying” singer released his album “Standing Room Only.” To celebrate the occasion, Hill posted about the record on social media, writing, “Even after all this time and so many albums. You never cease to amaze me. You are an absolute master of your art. In every way. Congratulations!!!” !!!!! My love. We are very proud of you.”
While the two seem more than happy to talk publicly about each other, Hill has made it clear that she is also comfortable appreciating her appearance in front of her fans.
When the album cover was released last summer, she shared the photo and captioned it: “Can you get any sexier?” She added a series of fire emojis and signed her brief but supportive message: “I love you, wife.”
In November, McGraw confessed that while they clearly love each other, there are some disagreements from time to time, and music is most often at the forefront of those arguments.
Tim McGraw explained that some of his “biggest disagreements” with his wife Faith Hill have to do with music. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
“I mean, we’re two different artists. We don’t always agree musically. In fact, some of our biggest disagreements come when we tour together,” McGraw admitted during Time magazine’s “Person of the Week” interview. podcast.
“Faith is very type A.” he explained. “I’m a mess. I will throw clothes everywhere. I mean, she always, constantly, pesters me to pick up my clothes. I mean, I spent 30 years living in a hotel…in and out. So I’m constantly throwing things everywhere and she’s like, ‘You have to clean up after yourself.'”
McGraw admits that his personality changes when it comes to acting.
“When I put together a show, I’m very type A. I want everything to be right, in the right place at the right time… And Faith wants to give her a lot of freedom. Just because she’s so talented. And she [doesn’t] I want to be limited. So sometimes we clashed a little bit, but we worked it out,” she clarified. “We always have a great time traveling together.”
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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill attend the 33rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards Artist Reception on April 21, 1998, at the Country Star Restaurant in Universal City, California. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Despite their differences, McGraw maintains that he and Hill always support each other.
“She’s my biggest fan, I’m her biggest fan,” he said. “I play her music all the time… Like I said, we don’t always agree. There are songs that I love that I put on an album and she’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t think I’d put that on.'” on an album.’ And vice versa. There are songs that I loved that she didn’t record and I thought, ‘Man, you should have recorded that.’
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“But she’s been successful enough to prove me wrong so many times that I’ve learned to completely trust her in what she wants to do. And she’s learned to trust me in what I want to do.”
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill share three daughters. (KMazur/WireImage)
When the couple first met, McGraw says they were well aware of the “difficult” circumstances ahead of them.
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“We knew it wasn’t going to be easy for two people who do the same thing to stay together and stay together for a long time and start a family, and we had a lot of long conversations before we got married. And we knew what kind of family we wanted. We also knew, “And we made a promise to each other that we weren’t going to run out the door at the first appearance of trouble. That we were going to get through things hard.”
Fox News Digital’s Caroline Thayer contributed to this report.
