Joanna Gaines and Chip Gaines. Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Fixer Upper stars Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines know when they need to take a step back from their thriving design business.
“When you run these races and it feels like there’s one marathon after another. Like [when] you finish a marathon, in the practical sense, well in theory, you take a week off or go recover somewhere,” Chip, 49, said during the Wednesday, May 29, episode of Today, confirming he and wife Joanna, 46, are taking a business hiatus this summer. “But in life, you don’t ever know where the starting line or where the finish line is, so you don’t know when to take these breaks. Jo and I have really tried our best to take these opportunities.”
According to Joanna, the couple’s breaks can range from “a weekend of doing nothing” or having the “intentionality of saying, ‘We’re going to take a break.’”
“In some ways, it’s more of a season where we’re still working but saying yes to other things,” Joanna told hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie. “I think that’s the ebb and flow even of Fixer that we’ve loved. It started as that and it’s evolved into something a little simpler that just works better for our family. It’s the evolution of change.”
Home renovation royalty! Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines have turned their original Magnolia Market into a massive, multimedia empire, but it all started with their romance. Soon after meeting by chance in 2001 at Joanna’s father’s repair shop in Waco, Texas, the duo went on their first date. It wasn’t without complications, however — the […]
Chip and Joanna have been DIY royalty since Fixer Upper premiered on HGTV in 2013, showcasing their home flips in Waco, Texas. After five seasons, the pair took a step back from the show and network.
Chip and Joanna, who are parents of five, returned to their Fixer Upper roots in 2021 with new episodes on Max under their Magnolia network. Chip and Joanna have since starred in Fixer Upper: The Castle, Fixer Upper: The Hotel and Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse renovation spinoffs. May also marks the milestone 10th anniversary of Fixer Upper season 1.
“I feel like we look like babies,” Chip quipped on Wednesday after watching the couple’s 2012 audition tape. “Now we feel like, ‘Wow, 10 years?’ It’s certainly created quite the evolution on my face.”
From fixer-uppers to falling in love! Celebrity couples are a staple on home renovation shows, from Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines to Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young). Chip and Joanna, for their part, rose to fame in 2013 when HGTV premiered Fixer Upper. The reality TV series centered around the married couple’s […]
While marveling over the passage of time, Chip and Joanna are already looking forward to their next milestones.
“I’m turning 50 this year, we’re celebrating our 21st anniversary … to some extent, we feel like we’ve grown up together,” Chip said. “The next 10 years, I’ll be like a 60-year-old man [and going] to be a grandfather. And then [having] Crew. … I’m modeling my life after Larry King, you know? I think I’m gonna be this Larry King-like character walking across the stage with my 18-year-old but also a grandparent on the other side. So, it’ll be interesting to see what the next 10 years [hold.]”
Chip and Joanna share Drake, 19, Ella Rose, 17, Duke, 16, Emmie Kay, 15, and Crew, 5. Drake recently finished his second year of college at Baylor University while Crew will start kindergarten in the fall.