Who Is Elin Nordegren, Otherwise Known as Mrs. Tiger Woods?

By PopEater Staff Posted Nov 30th 2009 03:45PM

A beautiful blonde Swedish model named Elin Nordegren married Tiger Woods, stood quietly by his side at golf tournaments and gave birth to his two children, while trying to remain out of the spotlight.

Now Nordegren is being thrust into the public eye after her husband crashed his car in their front yard, as speculation runs rampant as to what happened in the early morning on Friday, Nov. 27.

But what do we know about Mrs. Woods? The Daily Beast looks into Elin.

Her parents divorced when she was 6: Thomas Nordegren and Barbro Holmberg split in 1986.

She modeled but didn't make a career out of it: In her native Sweden, Nordegren modeled some. "She wasn't a high-profile model," a source from a New York-based agency explained to the Daily Beast.

After college, she became a nanny: Elin worked for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik. It was through him she would meet her future husband.

Elin and Tiger met in 2001, at the British Open: He asked her out through a friend, which didn't sit well with Nordegren. "Her reaction was, 'What the hell was that?' She thought it was so weird and pathetic. Of course she said no," a friend of the Parneviks told Sports Illustrated.

Tiger persisted and would eventually win her over: Woods kept calling the Parneviks to convince Nordegren to go out with him and she finally said yes.

They found out they had a lot in common: She played sports and knew a lot about golf. "She was also conservative by nature, like him," a golf-industry source told the Daily Beast.

They married in a lavish 2004 ceremony: Their wedding and reception reportedly cost a cool $1.4 million.

She seemed like the perfect athlete's wife: "You could point to a thousand candidates for a professional athlete to choose from for a wife and she was maybe No. 1," the golf-industry source added.

They couple appeared to be fine: "I can only speak from their public appearances and very few private ones, but they seemed not to have any kind of conflict. What we think happened probably did, but there was no evidence of it. This wasn't like Dennis Rodman, who lived out his hostile relationships in the press," the golf-industry source said.

She doesn't speak to her father anymore: "I haven't spoken to her in the last few ... I don't want to go into that," Thomas Nordegren told the Associated Press in Sweden.

Her mother refuses to comment on the situation as well: "She doesn't want to comment on private issues like these," Barbro Holmberg's spokesperson said.

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Monday 30 November

By erichk

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We all think it is a lealousy spat..but give Tiger credit, he left before he would retaliate...all the other celebrities would respond in spousal abuse. He left and they will work through it.

By kack

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are you kidding me he was doing what every male does, he was RUNNING away from the problem!!!! God forbid he stay and deal with it, no way he was probably just being a coward!!!

By b just

leave them alone its their busneiss...mr. levin i am a lawyer...

By J

I agree. Let them be. No relationship is perfect 100% of the time, otherwise there would be no excitement. It is obvious Tiger handled it in a respectful and private way.

Tuesday 01 December

By edkatg

so we think the same they had a squable, who that is married or living in has not? no one. so i say leave them alone, it was there squable, there suv, there tree so what is the big tuff about leave them alone and time will repair all, it always does in some way...edkatg

By snarkybigbyte

Spousal abuse? Oh now now...she was just trying to "drive" home that the only place he's allowed to swing *his* iron is at home! And the only other playin' is strictly done on the green. ;p

By maggie

DON'T YOU PEOPLE GOT A LIFE OF YOUR OWN? WHO CARE WHAT TIGER WOODS IS DOING OR MATTER OF FACT WHO CARE WHAT YOU GOT TO SAY...

By crackpipe

when will these women ever learn. They always get beat up and then it's all our fault /problem. When you get two undereducated, no morals, no self respecting types together this always happens. They should just leave them alone to do us all a favor and take each other out

By Elaine Quinn

We should leave it alone..its a private affair.
we have too many other things to focus on, just leave them alone.

Wednesday 02 December

By ANNIE S

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NO ONE KNOW WHAT HAPPEN BUT ABUSE IS WRONG WHICH I MYSELF THINK THAT NO ABUSE JUST LEAVE THEM ALONG

By Israel

Hey maggie, what are you doing here then?

By Jason

Maybe Tiger and his wife remembers what happened to O J Simpson when O J stepped outside of his race and married a barbie doll. The hounds are still chasing him through the woods. A person of color needs to understand this rule in america: NEVER MESS WITH AMERICA #1 IDOL BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES. You have brought yourself a world of trouble especially if you have money.

By brenda

I think the media is nuts here, for Goodness sakes , let it ride, get off their asses...don't you have something more important to report...they are just having what should be a private moment...morons..leave them the hell alone...the media in this country is ridicoulous and I hope he has the balls to say to heck with it and let stew.,.,morons morons morons

By artie patteson

yourright for god sakes leave them alone and they will be fine. they seem to be two people of high character and they will get thru this. If i had a buck for every time my wife and i got into it and worked it out id be rich, sadly shes not around any more and I miss her to death

By Suzy

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erichk, I couldn't agree with you more! My first thought was that Tiger and Elin got into a huge argument over something or someone, or both. I'd like to think that Tiger Woods is different than other guys, who would stay and beat the crap out of their wife. Ok, so he got into an auto accident, and we may never get the entire details, which actually are none of our business anyway. People are constantly asking, why was he leaving his home at 2:30am? Who cares? I've left the house at that time before. Everyone needs to get over it!

By lori

he left because she chased him out of the house with a golf club.. he was in his bare feet and pulled out fast . getting away from a ticked off wife he cheated on... the real truth!!!

By Momi Mauhili

Leave them alone and they will work out their own problems...this is also true for many high profilers...people should not throw stones if they
are not clean themselves

By trftweety

They have beautiful children, seemed like a happy couple and I think it's just another example of the fling whore wanting fame at the cost of breaking up a family. Hopefully they can work through this and she can someday forgive him, he hopefully has learned his lesson and will not wander anymore and kudos to Mrs. Woods for smashing his back window-Tiger is lucky she did not smash his head in!

By catwoman

why does whatever happens to a celeb really matter to any of us is our life so perfect? do we pay his bills? haven't we got more important things to worry about,i.e. war, terrorism, cures for cancer, aids, heck homelessness & poverty,etc.
GET A LIFE