By I didn’t even know Tiki Barber was married to a Korean-American until I saw this:
Ex-Giants superstar Tiki Barber has dumped his 8-months-pregnant wife, Ginny, for sexy former NBC intern Traci Lynn Johnson, sources told The Post last night.
The football star-turned-”Today” show-correspondent left his wife of 11 years, Ginny, for the 23-year-old blonde, who also worked at 30 Rock, the sources said.
Ginny, who is expecting twins, found out about the relationship late last year, after the run-around running back moved out of their Upper East Side home. [NY Post]
His wife Ginny Cha who he first met in college at the Universtiy of Virginia is of ethnic Korean descent. Here is the NBC intern he dumped his pregnant wife for:
Read the rest of the article but it is amazing how much in the open this guy’s affair was.
1:45 am on April 8th, 2010 1
I find it really odd and shocking that Tiger er, I mean, Tiki would fool around on his wife.
3:22 am on April 8th, 2010 2
Tiki,
Thanks for taking the heat off me. Owe you a drink!
3:28 am on April 8th, 2010 3
First impression: Rich black star, ignores own race for beautiful Asian woman and now upgrading to young white blond. Young blond white women being the ultimate Trophy, it would seem.
Seen it over and over and over and over again. Nothing new, but I would have thought Tiki to be smarter than this. Hope his wife makes him pay.
I would go for a young, green eyed, red head myself. Something a little DIFFERENT from what the other brothers do.
4:47 am on April 8th, 2010 4
Dude's an idiot. Of course, we don't know what their relationship was like, but still.
5:28 am on April 8th, 2010 5
Why the comparisons with Tiger Wood?
5:50 am on April 8th, 2010 6
Rhetorical question, I should hope.
6:30 am on April 8th, 2010 7
Is it just my impression or marriage between korean women and black males tend to end in divorces too often? look at Hines Ward's mother for instance …
6:45 am on April 8th, 2010 8
Don't know. I've know some Black men with Korean wives who enjoyed really stable marriages. Maybe its more a issue with superstar marriages than interracial marriages.
6:56 am on April 8th, 2010 9
She'll end up with lots of his money to console herself. Plus, she'll get child support.
7:52 am on April 8th, 2010 10
The girlfriend is a decade younger than the wife, yet looks about the same age thanks to that 'healthy' Maillard reaction browning. As for the longevity of this new relationship, Sir James Goldsmith famously said, "When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy."
7:59 am on April 8th, 2010 11
I think you owe Jesse James a case of his favorite beer from the local supermarket.
8:40 am on April 8th, 2010 12
I think that I got a massage from her at the Korean massage parlor. Who knows???…..all Koreans look the same to me.
10:06 am on April 8th, 2010 13
I wonder what happens if a korean guy says here that western women look all like whores just because they all look the same? nothing?
10:22 am on April 8th, 2010 14
One of these days a rich, black sporting star is going to date a black woman. People will have heart attacks.
10:25 am on April 8th, 2010 15
Seems to be the trend, yeah. Hell, I've known a few people that would make that argument about Western women even *without* them looking the same. Of course, those people are creepy and I stay away from them.
10:55 am on April 8th, 2010 16
Suure. If an Asian guy is disrespectful with western woman, that`s creepy, but if a westerner does the same with Asian women well … that`s freedom of speech right?
People should be more responsible with the things they say in public.
10:56 am on April 8th, 2010 17
Give it another five year. That blonde in that picture will shrivel up in premature old age wrinkles, while the stupid Korean wife looks change little.
10:57 am on April 8th, 2010 18
Yes you have seen it over and over again. Why doesn't that surprise me?
11:19 am on April 8th, 2010 19
It's freedom of speech either way. At least in the US it is.
While the context of Shadowboxer's comment is ignorant, there is a nugget of truth there. Lots of Americans have difficulty telling the difference between Asians. While I can tell differences between individuals, I usually have a difficult time explaining them. A few weeks ago, I mentioned to my wife I saw one of her friends at the grocery store but didn't recall her name. She asked me what she looked like. My response was "She was short with brown hair, round face and almond shaped brown eyes"
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11:27 am on April 8th, 2010 20
Remembering the "happily married" Korean women that I "dated" in Texas, I would say you're correct Tom.
11:32 am on April 8th, 2010 21
For once, I concur. In due time, this intern will fall to pieces while Ginny Cha will continue to be beautiful for a long long time.
12:16 pm on April 8th, 2010 22
His former wife is way, way better looking. The blonde looks very skanky and will probably look terrible by the time she's 30. She already looks much older than her age. I also have a hard time imagining that she would make a better wife, even if I don't know anything about either person.
12:46 pm on April 8th, 2010 23
“She was short with brown hair, round face and almond shaped brown eyes”
I think I have seen a woman with the same shape before
1:33 pm on April 8th, 2010 24
Damn, a multi-million ex football star is leaving his wife and his FOUR children. How rare is that?
1:46 pm on April 8th, 2010 25
She looks pretty damned good in the other picture of her that has been released.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PlJTNgrwPpY/S70Q35-_q4I…
1:48 pm on April 8th, 2010 26
Pretty rare. 78% of NFL players are broke two years after retirement.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/…
3:12 pm on April 8th, 2010 27
Ginny Cha Barber is half Korean and half Vietnamese, actually.
3:13 pm on April 8th, 2010 28
Surprise, surprise, my friend's KOREAN mother LEFT her BLACK father AND her less than a year after they moved to the US from Korea.
That's right, her father and her.
Her mother never gave my friend or her father any reason for doing so either.
It's a reverse of the Hines Ward thing.
3:17 pm on April 8th, 2010 29
I guess in the end no one in their heart cares what Koreans think or say. Sure there may be some flash anger, but Koreans/Korea don't really matter to the rest of the world.
As a Korean would say, "If you don't like it, go somewhere else!"
3:18 pm on April 8th, 2010 30
That looks like the result of a carefully designed photoshoot. So it doesn't really count. And I don't think she's particularly attractive in that picture either.
3:21 pm on April 8th, 2010 31
Yeah right!
After that kid, it's all down hill. She'll cut her hair short, start wearing gaudy clothes and grow a lot more black face and arm hair. Then when forty hits…damn-that blond will be a ten.
3:29 pm on April 8th, 2010 32
As far as the whole "whore" thing goes Yu, do you suppose said Korean "whore" would be turned away from a hospital when in need of medical attention because they automatically think she is a whore?
3:30 pm on April 8th, 2010 33
"If an Asian guy is disrespectful with western woman, that`s creepy"
Actually, was referring to western men.
3:31 pm on April 8th, 2010 34
Oh so she's not a pure pure blood Korean? That's why there are no mass demonstrations!
3:45 pm on April 8th, 2010 35
Why mention the divorce rate between blacks and asians….thousands of koreans married to koreans divorce every year also!
5:04 pm on April 8th, 2010 36
A better comparison might be fellow football star Steve McNair, who unfortunately was killed by little miss mistress.
7:36 pm on April 8th, 2010 37
I thought the scientists had found that when a women is pregnant, she produces certain pheromones that makes their men more committed. Oh well, the reasoning of the idiots we call men trumps science again.
On another note, here is my libertarian take on human relationships. It doesn't much matter what two people do to deceive or allow themselves to be deceived by each other. But, it does matter when they cause harm to innocent bystanders; children or potential children. If or when such infraction can be proven, it then goes from a civil offense to a criminal offense.
If then found guilty of such a crime, the judge is allowed to sentence him to no more than 20 severe high-risers to the nutts from an NFL kicker of the judges choosing from one of his opposing teams.
7:50 pm on April 8th, 2010 38
clarification: "the idiots we call men" I meant in the generic sense of the human species.
11:12 pm on April 8th, 2010 39
So, when is Tiki going to go on 6 months of sex addiction therapy, followed by a 2 month self-flagellation apology tour? Didn't the media demad that of Tiger? Or does Tiki get a pass because he IS the media? The only real difference here is that Tiger strayed but came back, and Tiki is dumping a pregnant wife when she needs him most. In this case, Tiki definately scores higher on the Douchebag scale.
1:26 am on April 9th, 2010 40
The only real difference is what?
Perhaps you don't follow sports very closely…but Tiger is probably the world's most recognizable sports figure – where as Tiki Barber is a former NFL player who has an outside chance of eventually making it into the Hall of Fame.
4:42 am on April 9th, 2010 41
With all the infidelity going in the world of celebrities, why the stretched comparisons between what Tiki Barber did and what Tiger Woods did?
Jesse James is far more similar to Tiger Woods than Tiki Barber, whose scummy infidelity is rather commonplace.
6:24 am on April 9th, 2010 42
Actually, if you'll google Ginny Cha Barber and click on images, I think you'll find she's really not all that hot.
She's obviously very insecure about herself as in many of the pics you can tell she spends a lot of time in the tanning booth trying to look like Tiki…
Korean women with fake bakes are not very attractive. IMHO.
10:08 am on April 9th, 2010 43
Or maybe black men are the ultimate trophy for young blondes. It works both ways you know. Women do have a choice.
10:10 am on April 9th, 2010 44
Why would he do that?
10:20 am on April 9th, 2010 45
Could be. Could be. If the blond stays with him when his money runs out (taken by wife) then it would be for sure. If she supports him, then yes.
He would be the trophy.
Kinda like ME
10:31 am on April 9th, 2010 46
Well it seems Peter Rose isn't all that wealthy, so he must be a trophy too.
10:56 am on April 9th, 2010 47
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Korean womenpeople with fake bakes are not very attractive.Fixed it for you.
5:38 pm on April 9th, 2010 48
I looked up more images, and I still think she's way better looking.
7:08 pm on April 9th, 2010 49
I'd say there's a good chance Tiki's contract won't be renewed. He really doesn't have that much of an appeal anyway and something like this, however public or private, doesn't sit well with the networks.
8:52 pm on April 9th, 2010 50
Maybe, but she looks a heck of a lot better than the other other women who have been in the news lately.