Ayesha Curry is finally clearing up one of those internet narratives surrounding her husband that just won’t die. While appearing on the IMO podcast with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, Ayesha sat down next to her husband, Stephen Curry, and addressed the long-circulated idea that he “wasn’t her type."
© GettyThey started to discuss their love story with Michelle when Stephen brought up the idea that maybe he didn't have game when they first met. "I don't know if I didn't have any game or if she was nervous or like vice versa, and like neither one of us really kind of," he said before Ayesha jumped in. "I feel like this is something that gets misconstrued," she said. “It’s not that you didn’t have game,” she told Steph directly. “I was 14 years old — I was not allowed to talk to boys!”
© GettyThe story seems to stem from a 2016 interview with PEOPLE. The couple first met as teenagers at a church youth group in North Carolina. “He was the cute boy at church that all of the girls were obsessed with, so I made a generalization that maybe he wasn’t for me," she told the outlet at the time.
Craig went on to bring up Ayesha's "No athletes because they’re arrogant” rule when imagining her future partner for a class assignment. The rule was so serious, she wrote it in all caps. Years later, her parents found the list tucked away in a box and laughed.
The Sweet July founder took ownership, calling her prior comment "very disrespectful" and "rude." “I was a theater nerd,” she said, explaining she was just trying to “protect her peace.”
She explained that she had misconceptions of what athletes were supposed to be like based on what she saw in movies and stereotypes of the “jock” persona.
© GettyAyesha said that what people interpreted as rejection was actually rooted in insecurity. At the time, Steph was “Mr. Cool,” and instead of assuming he could be into her, she convinced herself the opposite. “People for some reason think I've said in the past that he wasn't my type, but what I was saying was that I didn't think I was his type because this was Mr. Cool," she said, "so I kind of sold myself short in thinking there's no way, he must just like me as a friend."
Eventually, Ayesha realized things weren’t as one-sided as she thought after their first date. She “left the door open,” he shared. Steph, for his part, didn’t exactly back down. He kept showing up, literally. Ayesha recalled how he came to her house for two weeks straight and played video games with her brothers.
Ayesha went on to quip she’s glad she "didn’t get friend-zoned” by the future NBA star. "When I finally realized that the direction it was going in, I verbalized that to him, that I was confused," she continued. Once they realized they were both all in, they became inseparable.
© GettyThe pair got married in 2011 and now share four children, Riley, 13, Ryan, 10, and sons Canon, 7, and Caius, 1.
