Kevin De Bruyne is a very decorated soccer star.
Since joining Manchester City in 2024, the midfielder has helped the team 4️⃣ secure five Premier League titles and has won Premier League Player of the Year twice.
The Belgian athlete started his career 4️⃣ in his native country, playing for Genk before moving to the Premier League with Chelsea. He then moved to Wolfsburg 4️⃣ in Germany in 2014, and it was while playing for them that he met his wife, Michèle.
Kevin and Michèle got 4️⃣ married three years later, in 2024, and have three children together: two sons and a daughter.
In a 2024 interview with 4️⃣ The Players' Tribune, Kevin paid tribute to his wife, saying that she "changed my life in so many ways. Honestly, 4️⃣ I don't know what I would do without her."
He calls her the most important person in his life, but who 4️⃣ is Michèle De Bruyne? Here's everything to know about Kevin De Bruyne's wife and their life together.
She and Kevin met 4️⃣ on Twitter in 2014
Michèle De Bruyne Instagram
Kevin and Michèle (née Lacroix) first got together in 2014. In an interview with 4️⃣ The Players' Tribune, Kevin revealed that the couple met through Twitter.
"It started with a tweet. I only had a few 4️⃣ thousand followers at the time, because I was still on loan at Werder Bremen," he recalled. "So I tweeted something 4️⃣ about a match or whatever, and this pretty girl favorited it. I was single at the time, and my friend 4️⃣ noticed it. So he said, 'She looks like a nice girl, no? You should send her a message.' "
However, Kevin 4️⃣ said he "didn't even have the heart to slide into my future wife's DMs," so the soccer player's friend wrote 4️⃣ a message on his behalf and hit send.
"Thankfully, he sent the message for me, and she responded," the midfielder added. 4️⃣ "We got to know each other over text for a few months. It's a lot easier for me once I 4️⃣ get to know someone, so after that, I was good. It really was a beautiful thing."
She married Kevin in 2024
The 4️⃣ Belgian soccer player proposed to Michèle in December 2024 at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the couple got married 4️⃣ in Sorrento, Italy, on June 26, 2024
Following the nuptials, Michèle shared a photo of the couple kissing on Instagram with 4️⃣ the simple caption, "26.06.2024," while Kevin uploaded a photo of his own and wrote, "So proud I can call you 4️⃣ my wife now!"
In 2024, Kevin posted a tribute to Michèle on their first anniversary, describing their first year of marriage 4️⃣ as an "amazing year with many more to come" and calling his wife his "partner in crime." He did the 4️⃣ same in 2024 when the couple celebrated six years of marriage.
"Happy 6 anniversary to my beautiful wife and the best 4️⃣ mother to our 3 kids❤️🥰," he wrote on Instagram.
She has three children with Kevin
Michèle De Bruyne Instagram
The couple have three 4️⃣ children together. They found out that Michèle was pregnant with their first child during the transfer window in 2024, and 4️⃣ Kevin later described it as an "extremely stressful time" for the family.
Their eldest child, son Mason Milian, was born in 4️⃣ March 2024, and their second son, Rome, came in October 2024. Then, in September 2024, Michèle and Kevin welcomed their 4️⃣ third child and first daughter, Suri.
On her 29th birthday, Kevin called Michèle the "best mommy" in an Instagram post.
She supports 4️⃣ her husband's soccer career
Michele De Bruyne Instagram
Since joining Manchester City in 2024, Kevin has won the Premier League five times. 4️⃣ After the team won in 2024, Michèle posted a photo of herself holding the Premier League trophy alongside her husband 4️⃣ and son on Instagram.
She supports her husband when he's on international duty, too. After Belgium got knocked out of the 4️⃣ World Cup by France in 2024, she posted an Instagram photo of herself with the colors of the Belgian flag 4️⃣ on her face, commiserating with her husband and son.
In June 2024, Kevin won his fifth Premier League championship.
"No words ❤️," 4️⃣ Michèle wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of her embracing her husband on the field.
She co-hosts a podcast
Michèle is a 4️⃣ co-host of the Secret Society podcast, which describes itself as "Your dose of girl talk" on its Instagram page.
On the 4️⃣ podcast, which is in Dutch, the hosts speak to a variety of Dutch and Belgian celebrities and creatives. According to 4️⃣ the podcast's Spotify page, guests have included actress Lize Feryn, DJ and model Luna Stevens and photographer Marie Wynants.
She's involved 4️⃣ with charity work alongside her husband
Both the Manchester City midfielder and his wife are charitable. Kevin works with children's charity 4️⃣ Rays of Sunshine, according to Bleacher Report, and has helped with COVID-19 fundraising too, as his club reported.
In December 2024, 4️⃣ Michèle posted pictures of the couple visiting children in a Manchester hospital as part of Roc Nation Sports' "Kicks for 4️⃣ Kids" campaign on Instagram. "Thank you for the warm welcome, it was wonderful to see smiles on these children's faces," 4️⃣ she wrote alongside the photos.
She and Kevin starred in a McDonald's Belgium commercial
In March 2024, the couple shared their McDonald's 4️⃣ commercial on Instagram. The clip captures Michèle and Kevin deciding what they want to eat in the fast-food restaurant's drive-thru. 4️⃣ They spot an employee "waving" at them and assume that they're getting the "celebrity" treatment. Then, another car cuts them 4️⃣ off and they realize that the employee is just trying to keep the line moving. The couple laughs and the 4️⃣ screen reads: "Sorry, Kevin and Michèle. Here, we welcome every family as if they were stars."
