How Pregnant Shawn Johnson Nabbed a Gold Medal-Worthy Marriage

“Take my hand, I will not let go. We have waited so lengthy. And all my life, I walked alone. To you, my coronary heart, my dwelling”

It might be even longer till they might settle into the thick of marriage, placing down roots in a everlasting dwelling. The morning after their marriage ceremony, the couple hopped a 6 a.m. flight out to Oakland, Calif., the place East had simply been signed to play with the Raiders. By August he’d been launched, solely to be picked up by the Los Angeles Rams the next March. That two-month stint was adopted by transient stops with the Raiders (once more), the Jacksonville Jaguars and, most lately, the Washington Redskins. 

Johnson, in the meantime, although formally retired from gymnastics in 2012 as a consequence of a torn ACL, stays one of many sport’s most public ambassadors. As such she spent a lot of 2016 on a cross-country tour with Crew USA after serving as commentator on the Rio de Janeiro video games. All instructed, save for the 4 months they spent holed up in an Oakland Hampton Inn, they spent extra time aside than collectively. 

“It was a protracted few months, we went by way of arduous issues,” she instructed Individuals as they approached that first anniversary in 2017. “He received reduce from the NFL and tried out for one more workforce, we had been each going by way of traumatic occasions in life.”