Gracie Hunt has always occupied a spotlight few ever do: heiress to the Kansas City Chiefs, rising fashion influencer, and public figure through and through.
But this summer, she isn’t just turning heads with her game-day style. She’s charting a personal journey that blends legacy with self-definition.
After a quiet end to her relationship with country artist Cody Keith earlier this year, Gracie reconnected with someone familiar: Derek Green, son of former Chiefs quarterback Trent Green.
In a recent exclusive, she revealed that the bond between them stretches far back. “Derek and I have known each other our whole lives,” she told People.
“We would actually play together as babies during the Chiefs’ Christmas parties every year, and then we reconnected as adults in 2017 and met on the sidelines pregame.”
That reconnection took on new intensity this past spring. “We reconnected in early March and have been inseparable ever since,” she added.
Carving her own space
Though she was raised in luxury, Gracie‘s recent milestone shows a quietly bold step toward independence.
She has just bought a house, a move that feels more than symbolic, given her upbringing in her parents’ opulent Highland Park mansion.
The Instagram reveal included white hydrangeas, a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, and a thank-you to her realtor Gianna Cerullo. For Gracie, it’s part of creating a life that blends refinement with autonomy.
Her fashion is a constant extension of her identity, too. Whether it’s Sideline Sundays in Tom Ford or Balmain, or a fiery Roberto Cavalli gown at the Super Bowl ring ceremony, Gracie has long used her style as storytelling.
But now that storytelling seems to include a home of her own and love rediscovered.
Gracie‘s romantic path doesn’t erase her history with Cody Keith. Their relationship, which ended before the Chiefs‘ playoff run, formed another chapter in her story.
But with Derek, their relationship is built not from rebound but rekindled friendship and shared values.
She once reflected that what matters in a partner is faith, moral compass, alignment, and with Derek, she’s found that.
Outside love, Gracie has also used her offseason to reset. She travelled, recharged in nature, invested time in relationships that ground her, and embraced the expectation that football, and Chiefs football in particular, never fully disappears from her life.
“I don’t really ever truly stop thinking about football,” she said in an interview back in August. “In its absence, the heart does grow fonder… And obviously, everyone in the offices in Kansas City never stops thinking about football.”
She describes the energy in her family’s orbit heading into the 2025-26 NFL season as “immaculate vibes.”
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