For more than ten years, CLARK Hunt has served as the Kansas City Chiefs’ chairman.
Even longer than that, the Super Bowl champion has been wed to Tavia Shackles.
Who is Tavia Shackles? Clark Hunt’s wife
Tavia Shackles, the wife of Clark Hunt, is a former Missouri beauty pageant contestant from Lee’s Summit.
She oversees the Kansas City Chiefs Women’s Organization as well.
She won the titles of Miss Missouri Teen USA and Miss Kansas USA throughout her competition years.
When Tavia competed to become Miss USA in 1993, Kenya Moore of the Real Housewives of Atlanta won the title. Tavia came in second place.
After dating for two years, Clark and Tavia got married in October 1993.
Tavia was deeply connected with the Chiefs after she wed Clark.
She spoke to KSHB about her work with the group as follows: “I adore our mission statement and believe it speaks volumes about who we are as a company.
“We unquestionably have the NFL’s strongest fan base. No matter the weather—100 degrees, -10 degrees, whatever—they show up.
“Kansas City is such a special city and it truly has my heart.”
Clark and Tavia met during their college years, the latter was a publicity intern for the Chiefs.
“In 1991, I was a college intern in the PR department and after the first kickoff luncheon at the end of the summer, we came back to kick off the season,” the Miss USA runner-up remembered.
“At the end of that event, this nice guy came up named Clark and started talking to me.
“We had a great conversation and had so much in common, we learned.
“He asked me if I’d like to have dinner sometime and the rest is history.”
“He said he’d had it for years and it meant a lot to him, and that he hoped that he’d found his partner to drive with him down the road of life.
“I still have it, it’s framed in my bathroom. So we knew right away.”
Clark and Tavia have welcomed three kids together after getting married.
They have a boy named Knobel, Gracie and Ava as well as two girls.
“I would say we are very, very close, and I mean we talk every day if we don’t see each other every single day,” the beauty pageant winner shared of her family’s relationship.
