Jodi Faeth was the wife of an American TV personality and the star of the TV show American Pickers, Mike Wolfe. The pair was married for 8 years before the marriage came to an end in divorce.
The love story between the two seemed to be one that would last a lifetime as they spent many years together before they finally got married on September 7, 2012, in Franklin, Tennessee. They had a daughter and faced various challenges together, but in the end, their marriage still gave way. Since the untimely end of the union, Jodi has all but vanished from the public space, choosing to settle for a very quiet life.
Jodi Faeth Was Married to Mike Wolfe for 8 Years
Born Jodi Catherine Faeth and sometimes referred to as Jodi Catherine Wolfe, she was with Mike for many years before the pair got married. They were together from the early 1990s when they started dating and continued as lovers for the next 18 years before they finally decided it was time to get married in 2012.
While this was the first marriage for Wolfe, it wasn’t for Jodi. It is reported that she was previously married before she met the reality TV host. Her first marriage produced a son, Kyle, who is now an adult.
They got married almost a year after they had their first child together, a daughter whose name is Charlie Faeth.
The couple faced different challenges during their time together
Although for the better part, Jodi and Mike seemed to be a very happy couple, they still had some challenges they were open about to the public.
One of the most significant challenges they had to endure came during the birth of their only daughter when they realized she was born with a cleft palate and lip.
Mike revealed that they cried after the birth of their baby because of her condition, but their tears did not last for a very long time. She had surgery which fixed the problem for good. Because of this, the couple became advocates for Operation Smile, an organization that helps kids born with the same condition as their daughter.
Only a few years after the challenge, the family was hit by yet another challenge that was even more damning; Jodi was diagnosed with stage 2 Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It was a rude awakening for the family and even more for Jodi who found it hard to believe because she lived as healthy as she could. She exercised regularly as a vegan, she took good care of her nutrition and health.
Jodi went through a treatment that lasted a few months and after that, she was cleared of the ailment. To celebrate his wife’s 6th year of being cancer-free, Mike took to social media to share his excitement while sharing a photo of his wife and daughter on Instagram.
Their marriage ended because of irreconcilable difference
Everything seemed to be going well for Jodi and Mike, or at least for everyone on the outside. So it came as a big shock when the news came that they were heading for divorce in November 2020.
Court documents show that they had been separated since June 2020. In her filing for divorce, Faeth indicated that all hopes of a reconciliation were already gone and that the couple was unable to live together successfully.
She prayed for the court to divide their assets equally. By December 2021, the marriage had been dissolved and Jodi was given the couple’s home in Nashville as well as another in North Carolina. He was left with 13 of their properties.
She also received more than $5.2 million and another $634,000 in cash for their marital estate and alimony respectively. Having primary custody of their young daughter, Jodi was to receive $2,100 monthly in child support. In total, he was to pay more than 6 million in everything including royalties from his show. Her percentage of earnings from the royalties is put at 50 percent of post-tax.
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The couple have since moved ahead with their individual lives
Both Mike and Jodi who is a collector of bygone artifacts, have moved on from the divorce and are living their private lives. It is not clear if Jodi has gone into another relationship but as for Mike Wolfe, it is not a secret that he now dates American journalist and model, Leticia Cline.
Mike and Leticia were said to be friends since 2018 when he was still married to Jodi Faeth and after their divorce, he started dating the much younger woman.
