Cincinnati Bengals guard Dalton Risner's spouse, Whitney Risner, is clearing the air about whether or not the NFL star invested in her jewellery model.
“I launched Waawees and simply, like, bootstrapped it. I saved up all my cash from school and put that into my preliminary funding,” Whitney, 27, stated on the Sunday, October 26, episode of the “Sunday Sports activities Membership” podcast. “Then, I've simply continued to reinvest in my fight, and I believe that's been the best half about it.”
Whitney launched Waawees in 2020, resulting in a number of followers questioning whether or not Dalton, 30, backed the model together with his NFL wage.
“The feedback that basically reduce the deepest are those which might be, like, ‘Oh, your husband funded this enterprise,'” she stated, addressing the hypothesis head on. “You recognize, he didn't. He has been my largest help and, truthfully, [I] wouldn't be capable to do it with out him, but when we're speaking logistics and cash? I did begin this model alone — and I'm happy with that.”
Based on Whitney, she handles many of the design course of for Waawees and “numerous the gritty and the grind” behind the scenes.
“I moved, like, 5,000 items to Ohio,” Whitney informed podcast host Allison Kuch of relocating to Cincinnati when Dalton signed with the Bengals earlier this yr. “The truth that I can get these into, like, 4 containers? I'm like, ‘Throw them in! Let's go carry them to Ohio.'”
Whitney additional gushed that every Waawees piece “is like [her] child.”
“It's so enjoyable to design and take into consideration, ‘OK, what would I put on this with?'” Whitney stated of her jewelry-making course of. “It's even enjoyable to model and once I put up a bit [on social media], it's been so enjoyable to see women go get that actual stack, like, ‘Oh my gosh, they love what I'm carrying [and] what I designed.' I really feel honored that they wish to put on that.”
Dalton and Whitney have been married since 2022 after initially assembly throughout school.
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“I performed basketball for Hays State [and] he performed soccer at Kansas State, so our colleges performed one another,” Whitney recalled on Sunday. “We knew of one another, and he slid into the DMs.”
Whereas Whitney by no means responded to Dalton's social media message, they each ended up at a mutual pal's social gathering in Missouri the subsequent yr.
“He is very easy to like and simply has such an vitality that pulls individuals,” Whitney recalled of assembly her now-husband. “First night time we met, we hit it off, [and] I'm undoubtedly taking part in onerous to get as a result of I'm, like, ‘There's this man [who's] simply been drafted to Denver and thinks he's sizzling stuff.'”
Whitney quickly let her guard down after she noticed how “candy” Dalton was regardless of his soon-to-be rookie yr with the Denver Broncos.
“We find yourself doing lengthy distance his rookie yr,” she stated, recalling how she completed up her final yr of school as he joined the NFL. “He's such a very good human [and] wears his coronary heart on his sleeve. I knew him for, like, two weeks and he bought me this NFL jersey that stated, ‘Risner's Lady' on the again.”
