Jimmie Johnson’s Wife: Everything To Know About NASCAR Star’s Marriage To Chandra Johnson

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Image Credit: MBS/MEGA Jimmie Johnson is simply a decorated NASCAR operator and squad proprietor with a historical 7 champion titles Jimmie has been joined to Chandra Johnson since 2004 and shares 2 children with her The Johnson household was successful the quality successful June 2023 aft Chandra’s parents and nephew were killed successful a murder-suicide

Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson experienced a superior household calamity connected June 26, 2023, causing him to cancel his upcoming NASCAR Chicago Street Race. Police confirmed connected Tuesday, June 27 that Jimmie’s in-laws, on with 1 of their grandchildren, were recovered dead successful Muskogee, Okla. connected the evening prior. Their bodies were recovered astatine a location aft an apparent murder-suicide. The household members, Jack Janway, 69, and his wife, Terry Janway, 68, are the parents of Jimmie’s longtime wife, Chandra Johnson. Their grandson, 11-year-old Dalton, was her nephew. It is believed that Terry changeable and killed Jack and Dalton earlier shooting herself, per AP News.

Following the tragic news, Johnson’s contention team, Legacy Motor Club, asked fans to springiness Jimmie and his household privacy. “We are saddened by the tragic deaths of members of Chandra Johnson’s family,” NASCAR said successful a statement. “The full NASCAR household extends its deepest enactment and condolences during this hard clip to Chandra, Jimmie and the full Johnson & Janway families.”

While Jimmie is arguably the astir talented NASCAR operator successful history, small is known astir his household life. Read connected to conscionable his wife, Chandra Johnson.

Jimmie Johnson and Chandra Janway Johnson get astatine the 51st Annual CMA Awards (Photo: MBS/MEGA)

Who Is Chandra Johnson?

Chandra Johnson grew up successful Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma. However, she took a interruption from her studies to prosecute a modeling vocation successful Europe. She yet came backmost to decorativeness her degree, and erstwhile she did, she moved to New York with 3 of her champion friends from college. “Then, of course, I came to Charlotte due to the fact that of a man,” she joked to Style Bue Print successful 2016.

Chandra prefers to support her idiosyncratic beingness private, and her Instagram relationship is acceptable to private. However, she does nexus her assorted businesses successful her Instagram bio, giving a glimpse of her nonrecreational side. She is simply a “gallery owner, collector, and philanthropist,” according to her Peg Norris website, a assemblage she founded with her friend, Barrie Benson. She is besides the proprietor of the SOCO Gallery, “a modern creation space” that “produces six exhibitions annually, and a programme that features apical determination and planetary artists.” In addition, the gallery’s SOCO Shop “offers a unsocial and affordable scope of creation and manner books, constricted editions and creator designed objects.” All of her businesses are located successful North Carolina.

Chandra revealed successful her chat with Blue Print that she ne'er acceptable retired to unfastened a gallery. “I was truly funny successful artists first, and I wanted to bring these artists who I knew — oregon who I wanted to cognize — to Charlotte. It was each astir bringing large creation and artists to the metropolis I love,” she explained. “I started with pop-up creation shows, and it conscionable snowballed from there. I telephone this the imperishable pop-up. And it truly does consciousness similar a pop-up abstraction due to the fact that each accumulation is different. It feels similar a caller assemblage with each exhibition.”

Chandra besides serves arsenic the vice president of the Jimmie Johnson Foundation, which she and her hubby launched successful 2006. The instauration focuses connected backing K-12 nationalist acquisition and has raised $13 cardinal to date, per its website.

How Did Chandra And Jimmy Meet?

Jimmie Johnson holds his daughter, Evie, and smiles with his wife, Chandra, aft winning the 55th moving of the Daytona 500 successful 2013 Photo: SplashNews)

Chandra and Jimmy met portion she was surviving successful New York. The brace were introduced done communal friends. “Jimmie was truthful sweet. We ended up getting joined two-and-a-half years later,” Chandra recalled Blue Print. “I moved to Lake Norman with my suitcase aft our honeymoon. From there, we moved to Charlotte — and we’re inactive successful the location we bought arsenic newlyweds. I was tense going from New York to Charlotte, wondering if I would similar it. I fell successful love, though. I couldn’t judge however overmuch I loved it.”

The mates tied the knot successful 2004.

Chandra and Jimmie Became Parents In 2010

Chandra and Jimmie welcomed their archetypal child, a girl named Genevieve, connected July 7, 2010. In 2013, Jimmie revealed that Genevieve, oregon “Evie”, is simply a Taylor Swift fan. “The opus that is stuck successful my caput that she walks astir singing — which is brainsick — is simply a Taylor Swift opus wherever she says, ‘We volition ne'er get backmost together,'” helium told USA TODAY. “That’s the chorus she knows. So to ticker my 3-year-old girl singing astir a breakup with a lad she’s ne'er going to get backmost unneurotic with, it’s conscionable freaking maine out, to beryllium honest. I’m like, ‘This is mode excessively aboriginal for each of this!'”

In Sept. 2013, Evie became a large sister, arsenic Jimmie and Chandra welcomed different daughter, named Lydia Norriss Johnson. “Both parent and babe are doing well,” a connection shared connected the NASCAR star’s Facebook page work astatine the clip read. “Big sister Genevieve Marie, 3, is said to beryllium precise arrogant of her caller babe sister.”

Jimmy Is Just As In Love With Chandra As He Was When They Married

Jimmie and Chandra look to beryllium stone solid. On Mother’s Day 2023, the Petty GMS Motorsports co-owner gushed implicit Chandra arsenic a parent alongside a photograph of her with their girls, arsenic seen above. “Happy Mother’s Day Chani! Thank you for giving our household 100 percent each day,” helium penned. “We emotion you.”

In Dec. 2022, the adorable mates celebrated 18 years of marriage. Im Jimmie’s Instagram tribute, helium raved that they are “just getting started.” To cute!

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