Claire Kittle, born Claire Till, is the wife of San Francisco 49ers All-Pro tight end George Kittle.
She has built her own career across fitness, blogging and, most recently, modeling, including a feature in the 2026 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue that she has described as part of her own year of yes.
Claire Kittle Biography
She was born May 24, 1994, in Dubuque, Iowa, to Marty and Shelley Till. She is the eldest child, with a younger brother, Riley Till. Sports ran through both sides of her family.
Her mother, Shelley, won an Iowa state basketball championship in 1987 and went on to play at Drake University.
Her father, Marty, played baseball at the University of Northern Iowa. Claire Kittle attended Wahlert Catholic High School in Dubuque, where she became a two-time all-state selection and a McDonald’s All-American nominee, finishing her high school career with 1,011 points, still ranked third all-time in program history.
She went on to play basketball at the University of Iowa from 2012 to 2016 on a scholarship, averaging 1.6 points and 1.9 rebounds per game as a guard for the Hawkeyes.
She and her brother Riley, who also played for Iowa, are believed to be the first brother and sister combination to both play basketball for the University of Iowa. She graduated with a degree in health and human physiology.
George Kittle’s Wife
Claire met George Kittle in 2012 during their first year at the University of Iowa, where he played football and she played basketball.
By George’s own telling, he first spotted her crossing a parking lot wearing a pink moped helmet and made it his mission to get to know her, though the two started as friends rather than an immediate romance.
Their friendship grew into a relationship over the following years, and Claire supported George closely through the process leading into the 2017 NFL Draft.
George proposed in 2018, and the two eloped on April 10, 2019, in a small, private ceremony at a family friend’s jewelry store in Iowa City.
Two years later, in April 2021, the couple held a second, larger ceremony with friends and family at their home in Nashville, Tennessee, where they now reside during the offseason.
The couple has a dog together, a Bernedoodle named Deenie. In early 2023, Claire experienced an ectopic pregnancy and underwent surgery, a difficult period the couple shared publicly at the time; the two do not currently have children.
George Kittle has continued to publicly celebrate their relationship on social media, posting on Valentine’s Day in 2024 that their 13 years together and counting still mean the world to him, thanking her for the effort of traveling with him city after city throughout the football season.
George also co-founded Tight End University alongside Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce and former NFL tight end Greg Olsen in 2021, an annual offseason training event and community gathering for NFL tight ends held in Nashville, one of several ventures that keep the Kittles closely tied to the city they call home outside of football season.
Career
After graduating, Claire Kittle moved into fitness professionally, becoming a certified personal trainer in November 2016 and signing a modeling contract shortly after.
She went on to found Claire Till Fitness in Iowa City, building a business around wellness and personal training rooted in her own athletic background.
She also writes a lifestyle blog called Lettey Set Go, a nickname George gave her, covering fashion, beauty and travel, and co-hosts the Hoss Tailgate Tour.
Her most significant recent career milestone came in 2026, when she was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, a moment she has described publicly as a turning point in what she’s called her year of yes, marking her shift from primarily being known as a sideline supporter to building a public profile of her own.
She maintains an active Instagram with over 450,000 followers.
Claire Kittle Net Worth
Claire Kittle’s net worth is estimated at $2 million, a figure that increasingly understates the actual breadth of her income streams given how much her business portfolio has expanded in the past year alone.
Her original venture, Claire Till Fitness, LLC, based in Coralville, Iowa, remains her foundational business, built on her personal training certification and her own athletic background. Since 2025, she has layered several new projects on top of it.
In September 2025, she founded the HOSS Tailgate Tour, a live event series that made stops in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco during the 2025-26 NFL season.
She co-hosts Kittle Things, a podcast with her husband George that interviews industry figures and gives fans a look behind the scenes of NFL life. She launched a separate YouTube series, Wife’d Up, Mic’d Up, with Off Season brand co-founder Kristin Juszczyk, documenting the two families’ live reactions to game day moments from the sidelines throughout the 2025 season.
She has also built a growing brand partnership roster, with confirmed deals including DraftKings, Abercrombie, Walmart and Target.
Her highest-profile new revenue stream is modeling. Claire first tried out for the SI Swim Search in 2018 and did not get selected, but kept building her profile in the years since, appearing in the publication’s screencaps before finally landing a spot as one of six NFL wives and girlfriends featured on the SI Swimsuit February 2026 digital cover, photographed on Captiva Island, Florida, alongside Brittany Mahomes, Normani, Christen Goff, Haley Cavinder and Ronika Love, a group she has said nicknamed themselves the Hosses.
She went on to walk in the SI Swimsuit Runway Show during Swim Week at Miami’s W South Beach that May, wearing pieces by Los Angeles Apparel and Melissa Simone.
She described the opportunity as central to what she has called her year of yes, saying she is naturally good at saying no and wanted to push herself toward more opportunities instead, framing the SI campaign as a genuine goal to work toward the way she once approached basketball.
