Kevin De Bruyne has risen to become one of the world’s best players at Manchester City – but who is his wife and how did they meet?
Kevin De Bruyne joined Manchester City from Wolfsburg in August 2015 in a £55million deal.
He initially signed a six-year contract before penning an improved deal in January last year, committing him to the club until 2023.
“It was pretty easy [the decision to stay],” De Bruyne said at the time.
“Obviously, you hear a lot of people talk about other clubs but I think, at the moment, we are one of the best clubs in the world. The way this club is working as a whole unit is unbelievable.
“I’ve never witnessed it in other clubs before like that. The project is very good, with a lot of young players coming through so I’m happy to also build with this team.”
De Bruyne is regularly cheered on his City matches by his wife Michele Lacroix – but who is she and what do we know about her?
Who is Kevin De Bruyne’s wife?
Michele Lacroix originally comes from Genk, Belgium, and studied at the University of Hasselt.
De Bruyne revealed in The Players’ Tribune in April he got to know Lacroix after sliding into her DMs on Twitter.
“Everything changed then,” De Bruyne wrote. “But not just because of football. It was also because I had my (future) wife by my side.
Kevin De Bruyne and Michele Lacroix on their wedding day (Image: INSTAGRAM)
Kevin De Bruyne and Michele Lacroix have two sons (Image: INSTAGRAM)
“She helped me grow in ways that I’ve probably never expressed out loud — even to her. This is such an embarrassing story that I hesitate to tell it! But since I promised you honesty, then I guess I have to. And it’s pretty funny, anyway.
“It started with a tweet. I only had a few thousand followers at the time, because I was still on loan at Werder Bremen. So I tweeted something about a match or whatever, and this pretty girl favourited it.
“I was single at the time, and my friend noticed it. So he said, ‘She looks like a nice girl, no? You should send her a message.’
“And I literally said to him, ‘No, no, no. Come on. People don’t like me. They don’t get me. She won’t respond.’
“So he grabbed my phone and started tapping out a message. He showed me the phone and said, ‘Come on, can I hit send?’
“I was probably on the floor, cringing, but for some reason I said, ‘O.K. fine, send it.’
“Says it all, no? I’m supposed to be this big footballer, and I didn’t even have the heart to slide into my future wife’s DMs! I didn’t dare!
“But thankfully, he sent the message for me, and she responded. We got to know each other over text for a few months. It’s a lot easier for me once I get to know someone, so after that, I was good. It really was a beautiful thing.
“She changed my life in so many ways. Honestly, I don’t know what I would do without her.”
De Bruyne proposed to Lacroix in December 2016 at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the couple got married the following year in Italy.
The City star and his wife have two sons together, Mason, born in 2017 and Rome, born in 2018.
