TERRY Bradshaw is a former football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers and retired in 1983.
He moved on to work as a sports analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday since its inception in 1994.
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How many times has Terry Bradshaw been married?
Terry Bradshaw has been married four times since 1972.
Melissa Babish
Melissa Babish was Miss Teenage America in 1969 when she met Bradshaw.
They got married three years later, but their relationship lasted only 18 months before they divorced.
He was 26 years old and was at a point when he had simultaneously lost his job to Joe Gilliam and lost faith in himself.
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"I'm a Baptist, a Christian," he told Sports Illustrated in 2007, adding: "I pulled away from it in that year.
"I felt a lot of guilt over the divorce, and I'd lost my job. I'd failed. I didn't become an alcoholic or a whor*monger, but I was moody and depressed, and I drank and hustled women in bars—a total jerk having a ball. I have never enjoyed those things.
"I'd been a devout Christian for so long, getting away from it affected me mentally. The ton of guilt brought me to my knees.
"I guess you could say that God blitzed me and gave me a shot to the head, and no one threw a flag."
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Jojo Starbuck
As Bradshaw recovered from his failed marriage, he met Olympic figure skater, Jojo Starbuck.
Bradshaw saw Starbuck perform in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but when he asked her out, she rejected him.
It took several weeks before Starbuck reached back out to Bradshaw and sent him tickets to her next performance.
They had dinner after her show, and two weeks later he proposed.
They were officially engaged the following month and got married on June 6, 1976.
Their relationship didn't last, and a man who worked with Bradshaw told The Washington Post that he was there the day the relationship went south.
“Terry had talked to Jo Jo just the day before, and there had been no indication anything was happening,” the man told the outlet in 1980.
He continued: “Jo Jo had said, 'Terry, our marriage is floundering,' and Terry told her, ‘I know it’s floundering. If you want to get it on the right track, come to Pittsburgh to be with me.’
"The next day after they’d talked, it hit. Jo Jo’s lawyers filed for divorce. I never saw Terry so shook up.”
Their divorce was finalized in 1983.
Charlotte Hopkins
Three years after Bradshaw and Starbuck's divorce was finalized, he married attorney Charlotte Hopkins.
''I met her when she was 19, but I thought she was 22,'' he told the Chicago Tribune in 1987.
They dated for four years but broke up before getting back together after his divorce from Starbuck.
"I had been afraid she really didn`t love me," he said, adding: "Once I realized this was the real thing, it was wonderful.''
He and Hopkins were married for 15 years, and in that time, he compared his marriage to his first two, saying they never cross his mind.
''The first one was a terribly immature decision," he said. "It paralleled me then.
"The second one was pain. I loved her, but she didn`t love me. Now this one has happiness and contentment.
"That happens when you bring two people together who are happy with themselves and love each other.''
Bradshaw and Hopkins' marriage didn't last and in 1999, they were divorced.
Tammy Bradshaw
Bradshaw's divorce from Hopkins left him shattered and unable to "bounce back," he told USA Todayin 2004.
He said he suffered from frequent anxiety attacks and weight loss, cried continuously, and was "angry, bitter, hateful, and mean-spirited."
Bradshaw met Tammy in 1999, but every time they became close, he said he would pull away.
"When I was getting close to [Tammy], I’d run and hide for six weeks, then come running back. I said, ‘There’s nobody getting their hands around my heart again," Bradshaw told Closer Weekly in 2019.
"I fought her for 13 years, and to her credit, not one time ever did she ever say, ‘Where’s this going?'”
Bradshaw told the outlet that in 2014: "I passed her in the hallway and said, 'Oh listen, we’re getting married Tuesday in Hawaii.' She said 'OK' and we kept going.
We get there and she said, 'If you’re serious, we need to get a license.' So we got one. I’d already called my preacher. It was fun!"
Bradshaw said prior to the proposal, he had gone to counseling and realized all his ex-wives had been the same.
"And it wasn't good!" he said. "This time I married my best friend. Everyone should!”
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Does Terry Bradshaw have kids?
Bradshaw and Tammy share a blended family with both bringing in kids from past marriages.
Bradshaw had two daughters with Hopkins, Rachel, 35, and Erin, 33, and told the Chicago Tribune that was when his life began.
''I love it,'' Bradshaw said about being a parent. ''It came along at just the right time. This baby put the spark back in my life.
He added that he told Hopkins: "I can't believe I can love something so much."
Rachel has appeared on the reality television show Nashville and Erin is a competitive equestrian.
Bradshaw's stepdaughter, Lacey Hester, is from Tammy's first marriage, and her son, David, unexpectedly died from a drug overdose in 2009.
When did Terry Bradshaw end his football career?
Bradshaw's football career ended only a few games into the 1983 NFL season when he dislocated his elbow, effectively ending his football career.
Despite the early end to his time in the NFL, Bradshaw was awarded numerous accolades including being named NFL's Most Valuable Player of the Year by the Associated Press in 1978.
He was also named the All-Pro and All-AFC that year and won three pro bowls in 1976, 1978, and 1980.
In 1989, Bradshaw was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and he said he didn't have words to describe that moment.
During his enshrinement speech, Bradshaw said: "When I got the phone call, those of you that know me, know I'm not a man that hides his emotions well, I went nuts... I went crazy... which I already am anyway."
He said: "I jumped around, I ran around the house outside, I just lost it for three days. I said, 'I can't believe this' and then I stopped, and I said 'what does it mean ... what does all of this mean?'
"It means that, yeah, you're one of the best that ever played, and I said, 'No, wait just a second, wait just a second.'
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"What it means is that in football you never get anything that you don't share with people."
He added: "You don't get elected into the Hall of Fame by yourself."
