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Parents Magazine:PARENTS: You two were in the same church group as teenagers, but you never asked Ayesha out. Were you afraid she was out of your league?STEPHEN CURRY: I always had my eye on her, but I got a little shaken, for sure.
AYESHA CURRY: I wasn’t allowed to date in high school. We always laugh that we were both focused on God.
Fast-forward a few years. Stephen is a rising junior at Davidson College , you’re pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles, and he comes to town for the ESPYS sports awards show. He found you on Facebook, and you spent a day hanging out—does that count as your first date?AC: I mean, it was friend vibes … until I dodged his first kiss.
SC: Yep. I struck out.
We need the play-by-play.AC: He was in mid-conversation and came flying at my face like a thief in the night. So I was like, No. Then I thought, “Oh, I didn’t know this is what was happening.”
When you guys got engaged a couple of years later, that centered around a kiss too.SC: It was in the same spot where we had our first kiss—in the driveway of my parents’ house in Charlotte.
AC: In the rain.
SC: Yeah, it was like The Notebook. The plan was to act like we were going to a family cookout. So we pulled up to the house, and I stopped in the middle of the driveway, got down on my knee, and went into my spiel. Little did I know the whole family was looking out the window, videotaping the moment.
You guys got married so young. What was the rush?SC: I was 23; she was 22. But I knew I had found the right woman and I wanted to start a life with her.
I was figuring out what my career path was going to be. Then shortly after we got married, I found out we were pregnant with Riley. She was a borderline honeymoon baby. So that became my next move. I struggled with that for a while.
FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not. My girls get to see me, and Riley is at the age where she asks where I am and when I’ll be back, counting down how many “sleeps” until Daddy gets home.
The amount of stuff you get done in a day is insane. Like, what were we doing with our time before kids? I feel like I should have invented something.
Also, it’s an event to get all four of us out of the house at once. When we get in the car and we’ve brought everything and everybody has socks on, it’s like a dream come true.
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Ninety-five percent of them. Riley used to come with me. Now I leave her home more often because it’s important to keep the kids on a schedule. It gets late on game nights. So your date night is getting to watch him play?
It’s not a date night. We’re in the same building, but it’s all eye contact from the stands to the court. And then we have the drive home.
The drive home is the date.
We have a pregame ritual right before tip-off where I do a sign, and she does it back.
Should I give it away?
No.
We have matching tattoos.
I guess he’s giving it away.
Why are you flexing your muscles?
I have to show it. This signifies that the past is behind us and the future is in front of us, so we stay in the middle, in the moment. I smack my tattoo and she does the same.
It’s a reminder for him to have fun. I never want him to forget that.
Yes and yes. I have to walk past the family waiting room to get to the interview room, and Riley wanted to hang out with me. She had that look, like she wasn’t going to take no for an answer. So I said, all right, come with me. She sat up there, and that’s when her personality shined bright. I tried my best to answer the questions even while feeling under the table and checking out of the corner of my eye—where is Riley? She’s got a great sense of humor. Now she’s the star of the family. If we go somewhere without her, the first question people ask us is, “Where’s Riley?”
No, she has no idea.
But she is definitely aware of people taking pictures of her.
That breaks my heart a little as a parent. She’ll put her hand up and be like, “Mom, she’s trying to take a picture of me.” Then I give a look that says, “Put your phone down.”
We’ll just show each other a photo and ask, “Should I post this?” We know we’re in a different situation than most people, but we want to share stuff that’s meaningful and not have to be guarded. But there is a balance. We keep certain moments to ourselves, so it’s a memory just for us.
My whole family. My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African‑ American, so I’m very mixed
. The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.
My truthful answer is chicken parm. She hates that because it’s so simple. So my favorite non‑simple dish is lamb chops with bacon-wrapped scallops. She makes the fixin’s on the side.
Fixin’s—a North Carolina boy.
I whipped something up after the game last night.
You did. At 11:30. Pasta and then Bananas Foster. It was me and a couple of friends hanging out in the kitchen, and she asked, “Anybody want Bananas Foster?” I looked around at everyone, and they’re like, “Yeah, we’ll take that.” She whipped it up in five minutes.
The thing I love about him is that he’s not too cool for school. He’ll get down on the floor and play with the girls. He’ll put on dress‑up clothes if he has to, and he’s very patient, which is something I’m not. We balance each other out.
We agreed to press pause and then reassess in a year or so.
He’d have three more kids right now if he could.
Absolutely.
A friend who’s a rapper was over at the house yesterday. He has two kids, and we were sitting there swapping stories about fatherhood—diapers and bottles and day care. Lots of new material for our conversations.
I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation. All those little checkpoints are going to be fun, and there will be ups and downs along the way. Watching our children go through those life experiences will be amazing.
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