Joel Embiid and Anne de Paula are married!

On July 22, 2023, the couple wed during a lavish ceremony in Southampton, New York.

The Philadelphia 76ers star met the model through a mutual friend at a dinner in New York City in 2018. They started off as friends, FaceTiming daily for a while, before pursuing a romantic relationship.

In September 2020, the couple welcomed their first child together, son Arthur Elijah.

“He just has this personality where he wants to motivate you,” de Paula told ESPN of Embiid in 2021. “His friends, his family and now with Arthur — he pushes all of us to be the best of ourselves. That’s the type of person you want to have around.”

It seems de Paula has the same effect on Embiid.

“Thank you for dealing with my African crazy a– and allowing me to be ME,” the NBA star wrote on Instagram. “I’ve trusted your process, you’ve trusted mine and it brought us to where we are.”

So, who is Joel Embiid’s wife? Keep reading for everything there is to know about Anne de Paula.

De Paula was born on March 31, 1995, in Rio de Janeiro.

“I grew up by the beach, and it’s warm all the time and you don’t wear many clothes,” she told Sports Illustrated in 2018.

Her mother is an X-ray technician, and her father is a doctor. Before her modeling career took off, she thought she would follow them into the medical field.

De Paula grew up playing soccer and was a goalie for about six years, telling SI that the sport was “everything I wanted to do.” And she is still “very passionate” about the sport.

“It’s been a while [since] I’ve played because you have to keep your nails looking nice for this job. But if I had some free time, I would definitely go back to Brazil and play,” she told Fox News in 2018.