Network Fixer Upper Stars Joanna Gaines and Chip Gaines Son Drake Gaines has recently turned 20, leaving the teen years behind.
Joanna and Chip have turned their hometown Waco, Texas into the lucrative hub for their many startup companies and entrepreneurships. It all began back in 2003 when Joanna Gaines and Chip Gaines founded a lifestyle brand, Magnolia.
The entrepreneurial couple have five children together: Drake, 20, Ella, 18, Duke, 16, Emmie, 15, and Crew, 6. During Joanna’s recent visit to the school, she discussed her youngest child and read some books to kids.
Drake, stands at 5ft 10, is a sophomore at Baylor University, where he plays for a Baseball team. The university’s Instagram page posts his baseball throwing moments numerous times on their feeds. He is currently studying business entrepreneurship.
At Valor Preparatory Academy, he played varsity baseball for more than 4 years. Drake’s passion for baseball is stemmed from his father’s passion. He was also recruited to play at Baylor University. Chip’s told Baylor Magazine: “Baseball got me in the front door at Baylor.”
Leaving the family for college severely impacted his mother and father. Ahead of his departure, Joanna wrote a personal essay at Magnolia Journal. Though, Joanna is doing extremely well now because his son’s college is in his family’s hometown Waco. Ella, her second-eldest child and eldest daughter is soon going to be the next one to leave for college. She is getting used to it.
Addressing her son’s leaving for college, she wrote to The Times: “My first child is moving away, and our family dynamic will change because of it, and that can feel like a loss of its own.” She further said, “I catch glimpses now of what that life will look like and wonder if or how many times that might bring me to the floor.”
She told People, she tracks her kid on Life360 to see “How fast her teenage kids are going.” Joanna is proud of all of her kids, as they are turning out to be brilliant human beings and exceptional people. The siblings who tended to fight a lot as a kid has turned out to best mates, she loves that.
Joanna is a brilliant interior designer and entrepreneur. Apart from being a designer and entrepreneur, she is a New York Times Best Selling author who has sold books in almost every major category, particularly home design and cookbooks.
Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines are the founders and owners of lifestyle brand, Magnolia, which includes TV net work, a magazine, furnishings, and a real estate company. They such an inspiration to the next entrepreneurial generation of Americans.
Chip and Joanna are primarily active on Instagram, sharing their daily life stories and new interior design ideas there. Chip has amassed 5 million followers, and Joanna has accumulated 13.7 million followers.
In 2013, she co-hosted Fixer Upper, a reality television series alongside her husband, Chip Gaines. The rise of “farmhouse-chic” interior design is attributed to this show. The show primarily featured home with barn doors, wainscoting, shiplap, and clawfoot bathtubs. The show was aired on HGTV from May 23, 2013 –
April 3, 2018.
In November 2018, they returned to their own channel, Magnolia Network. The couple has a perfectly balanced professional and personal life. They are still married. They haven’t split, divorced, or facing any marital issues. Likewise, they are thriving.
