“I was just nervous” – Ayesha Curry once admitted she had no idea if Stephen Curry wanted more than friendship before first date

Before becoming one of the NBA’s most beloved power couples, Ayesha and Stephen Curry shared an innocent beginning that could’ve easily remained a friendship. In a candid reflection, Ayesha revealed that when the two reconnected as teenagers, she wasn’t sure if Stephen saw her as more than a friend. What began as a casual chat on Facebook soon turned into their very first date. Ayesha still remembers her romance story vividly.

Ayesha Curry recalls how Stephen Curry reentered her life after years apart

Ayesha Curry grew up in Markham, Ontario, Canada, before moving to North Carolina at 14, where she first met a young Stephen Curry through church. “He’s one of the first people that I met in the States, but we were just friends,” she recalled in her appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast. They attended the same church and shared mutual friends, but romance wasn’t on her radar. “Obviously, we were 14, right?” she laughed, describing how their connection began in the most ordinary way.


Years later, when Ayesha had moved to Los Angeles, Stephen reached out unexpectedly via Facebook. “It was a private message, but he was like, ‘Hey, do you still live in LA?’” she shared. Before that, he had messaged her after seeing her appear in a music video. “He was like, ‘Hey, who is that in the picture you’re in?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s Young Berg.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, I should have known. He always has all the sexy ladies.’ And I was like, ‘What is happening right now?’”

At the time, Stephen was in LA for a basketball camp and asked if she wanted to hang out. Though she declined at first because of work and tight finances, he didn’t give up. “He hit me up two weeks later. We hung out, and we’ve literally been together since that day,” Ayesha said.

Ayesha Curry reflects on their first date with Stephen Curry

Ayesha described their first date as something straight out of a coming-of-age movie. “It was like my first real date, so I was just nervous,” she admitted. “It was years of having a crush and then years like I just never thought that he would like someone like me. I thought friends. Just friends.”

Their date took them through Hollywood Boulevard, where they placed their hands in Marilyn Monroe’s handprints, grabbed chai lattes, wandered The Grove, and even joked about checking police cars for donuts. “It was one of the best days of my life,” Ayesha recalled. “Honestly, it was so innocent and young, and I wish I could relive that or at least watch it from like a bird’s-eye view. It was so cute.”

The pair got married in July 30, 2011 and has been an NBA power couple since. They share four children, daughters Riley and Ryan, and sons Canon and Caius.

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