Joanna Gaines Leaves Chip Shocked After Revealing She Knew She’d Marry Him on First Date

Chip and Joanna Gaines of the popular HGTV show “Fixer Upper” sat down for a lengthy interview recently as they celebrate two decades of 💍Marriage.

But during the interview, Joanna shocked her affable husband when she disclosed for the first time she knew she would marry him on their first date.

That was in spite of the fact she told People Magazine he was not her type.

The two scheduled a date after Chip saw his then-love interest in a TV commercial for her father’s Waco, Texas, auto shop in 2001.

Chip found himself making trips to the shop for work on his car, and he got the opportunity to ask Joanna on a date.

She agreed, and the two went out together.

“I was always attracted to quiet guys, to the guy that you didn’t know what he was thinking,” she told People with her husband alongside her. “When Chip and I went on our first date, he didn’t stop talking! In my mind I was like, ‘Okay, this isn’t going to work. Because he is not quiet, he’s not mysterious. He’s very just out there.’”

In spite of her reservations, Joanna said something about him spoke to her deeply.

“Then I heard this voice say, ‘This is who you’re going to marry,’” she said.

Joanna added, “Call it God, call it whatever. ‘This is the man you’re going to marry.’”