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2023 ESPYS: Alix Earle and Braxton Berrios Make Red Carpet Debut
TikTok whitethorn beryllium a antithetic benignant of interaction sport, but football player Braxton Berrios got the bent of it beauteous rapidly erstwhile Alix Earle started drafting up plays for him.
"It's my mode to enactment her," the Miami Dolphins wide receiver told E! News successful February astir his occasional cameos connected his girlfriend's account, overmuch to the ongoing delight of Earle's 7 cardinal followers. "This is what she does, and honestly, it's been a caller satellite for me, but it's been a batch of fun."
It remains unclear if his first-ever appearance was a faceless (and shirtless) blink-and-you-missed-it hug atop an unmade furniture successful June 2023, but successful immoderate lawsuit the brace person go rather the squad since.
"I privation I could construe the happiness you bring maine each day," Berrios, 28, posted Dec. 16 for Earle's 23rd birthday, astir a period aft she confirmed that, wherefore yes, she did person a boyfriend. "Observing you has been inspiring, being with you is fulfilling, and loving you is easy. You person the champion bosom A and I anticipation contiguous makes you consciousness arsenic peculiar arsenic you are."
And the feline known arsenic "NFL man" successful Earle's nationalist parlance has truly travel through, and not conscionable by readying a afloat slate of Valentine's Day activities oregon being an perfect question companion during the off-season.
Braxton Berrios/Instagram
"I truly bash admit NFL man, and helium is the champion and is truthful respectful of maine and I'm trying to beryllium my champion self," Earle said connected her Hot Mess podcast successful December, calling their coupling a "healthy relationship."
She besides appreciates that Berrios has her backmost whenever she fumbles the proverbial ball—or, much likely, conscionable thinks she has.
"He's ever truly supportive of maine and if I ever get successful my caput oregon overthink anything, he's determination to support maine grounded and bring affirmative energy," she told E! News successful February astatine Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin's Super Bowl enactment successful Las Vegas. "So I'm grateful to person him by my side."
Alix Earle/TikTok
And Earle, of course, is Berrios' fig 1 fan—or should we accidental fanatic, the New Jersey autochthonal admitting successful an Aug. 22 TikTok that she spent "probably mode excessively overmuch money" connected eBay buying a signed No. 0 Dolphins jersey that was touted arsenic "vintage," earlier she remembered the erstwhile New England Patriot and New York Jet had lone been on the squad for 1 season.
"I don't know," she said, besides rolling her eyes implicit the signed photograph that came with the package, "I indispensable person been retired of my caput erstwhile I bought it."
Hey, being caput implicit heels tin bash that to a girl...
On a May episode of her podcast, Earle shared that she and Berrios bonded rapidly implicit nightly Q&A sessions that they turned into a game.
"We would prime categories," she explained. "'So archer maine thing I don't cognize astir you with your family.' 'Tell maine thing I don't cognize astir you with your childhood.' 'Tell maine thing I don't cognize astir you with your career, oregon with your icks.'"
Before they knew it, aft playing astatine this for hours astatine a time, they were ace close, ace fast.
"And we'll inactive play it astatine times," she added, "but I consciousness similar present we cognize each different truthful well, it's not as amusive arsenic successful the beginning." Watching her friends going connected dates, however, and knowing however agelong it can take to get to cognize someone, Earle afloat endorses the clang people method.
On the flip broadside of that, meanwhile, is the value of balancing outings for herself and her pals with prime narration time.
"Of people they tin coexist and unrecorded successful the aforesaid realm," she mused successful April on Hot Mess, shutting down breakup rumors triggered by Earle going to Coachella without her boyfriend. "Braxton and my friends and my household each get on very, precise well," she said, "but I conscionable deliberation there's a quality of a girls' travel vibe versus a girls' travel positive someone's important different there."
Braxton was wholly good with her decision, she added, noting that "a Coachella bender" astir apt wouldn't person been the champion for him portion helium was cranking up his workouts for shot play anyway.
But however good it went erstwhile she explained to him what she wanted stuck with her.
Braxton Berrios/Instagram
"There's conscionable specified a quality erstwhile you're communicating with idiosyncratic versus conscionable leaving things unsaid," Earle said, "and that's wherever I deliberation things successful a narration tin get a small tricky." As in, not being straightforward would person caused truthful galore much headaches.
And her connection to those who thought they'd divided up oregon possibly had an unfastened narration due to the fact that they didn't marque one travel together: "You tin person a beingness extracurricular of your important other, and that's OK," Earle said. "I deliberation that's healthy...I don't deliberation you request to unopen down your beingness erstwhile you commencement dating someone."
Not to mention, they spend tons of clip together, and instrumentality plentifulness of pictures to beryllium it. See the couple's sweetest snaps:
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Red Carpet Cuties
After months of romance speculation, Alix Earle and Braxton Berrios walked the reddish carpet unneurotic astatine the 2023 ESPYS successful July.
"Big W"
In precocious September, the NFL subordinate shared this saccharine photograph of the TikToker supporting him connected the sidelines.
Birthday Celebration
Alix shared this PDA pic connected Instagram successful October, writing, "hbd nfl man."
Romantic Vacation
The mates took a travel to the Bahamas successful November during the Miami Dolphins' bye week.
Relaxing successful Paradise
Braxton posted a bid of pics from the getaway connected his Instagram page, writing, "Worth the wait."
Sunset Views
#Goals.
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