NFL Wives And Girlfriends Blast People Who Refer To Them As ‘Gold Diggers’

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Several NFL wives and girlfriends are banding together to clap back at the suggestion that they are nothing more than gold diggers.

On episode four of the web show Women of the League, five of them discussed management of their finances, NFL contacts and prenups.

The show is hosted by Josie Leinart (wife of former NFL quarterback Matt Leinart), and features Isaac Rochell’s wife Allison, Jared Goff’s fiancee Christen Harper, Jeff Smith’s wife Kym Jackson and Dalton Risner’s wife Whitney.

“One of the things that bothers me so much, and I see it all the time in the comments section, is how people view NFL wives and they are constantly viewing NFL wives, generally speaking, as gold diggers,” Josie Leinart begins the conversation.

“I know, personally, it’s a huge insult and I know that Whitney deals with it a lot like on TikTok, all those comments,” replied Allison Rochell. “It’s frustrating when you’re putting in so much hard work behind the scenes.”

“I feel like I totally relate to that,” Christen Harper jumped in. “I think that’s the number one comment, not, I don’t get it all the time, but I think it’s goes unsaid a lot or people just assume things about you. They assume that you don’t have a job or you’re not doing anything outside of following your husband around or fiance around. And I think so many of the women that I know in the league are working hard at their careers or they’re doing amazing things, like, in the community. They’re doing so much more than just chasing a bag. Like, that’s just not the reality. Like I haven’t met any women that are doing that. Like, it’s not the norm and it’s I think it’s something that’s just been portrayed and it’s, you know, it’s just not the truth.”

Kym Jackson added, “At the end of the day though even if I had zero income and my husband did decide that he wanted to pay for everything that I needed to get paid for. What’s the issue with that? There really should be no issue and I shouldn’t have to be a ‘gold digger.’ If at the end of the day my husband has a job that allows and provide for me and he does and I’m fine with that and that’s our relationship standards, I feel like what’s the issue with that and why are people so upset about it? Is the thing, because I’m sure some of the same comments that assume that we’re gold diggers would love to be in that position, so I think sometimes it comes from a place of dissatisfaction of like with you within your own self and stuff.”

Do these NFL wives And girlfriends have a point? Watch the video and decide for yourself.