The pink-haired US Women's National Team captain proposed to longtime girlfriend and WNBA legend Sue Bird in late October.
The dynamic duo has been dating since 2016, and both have been dominating their respective sports in that span.
They first met at a press event prior to the 2016 Olympics and, once they were in Rio de Janeiro for the games, Rapinoe went to a few of Bird's games.
Since they both play for Seattle-based franchises — Rapinoe for the NWSL's OL Reign and Bird for the WNBA's Seattle Storm — they began to spend more time together back in the Emerald City.
Soon after that, they started dating.
Though Bird's friends and family had long known she was gay, the four-time WNBA champion was not out of the closet to the public when she first began dating Rapinoe.
That would change quickly, as Bird often jokes that she would "be guilty by association with Megan anyway, so I had to come out."
Source: ESPN
Rapinoe has been loud and proud about her sexuality ever since she came out through an interview with Out Magazine in 2012.
Source: Out Magazine
And she was in multiple public relationships with women — including with USWNT legend Abby Wambach, former Australian national teamer Sarah Walsh, and singer-songwriter Sera Cahoone — before falling for Bird.
With three NCAA championships, five gold medals, and six World Cups between them, the pair undoubtedly became one of the most accomplished power couples in sports after they got together.
Now that they're gearing up to get hitched, Insider took a look at how Rapinoe and Bird make and spend their millions.
Sue has been playing professional basketball since she was selected by the Seattle Storm with the first overall pick of the 2002 WNBA Draft.
She's been with the franchise ever since, winning four WNBA championships and earning 11 WNBA All-Star nods in her nearly two-decade career.
As one of the top players in the league, Bird has been among the highest-paid WNBA players for most of her career. Still, when Sue first joined the league and for a long time after, the maximum salary was still well under six figures.
Still, Bird has never made her real money in the WNBA. Instead, she headed overseas and struck endorsement deals for bigger paydays.
And in the five years she spent with Spartak Moscow, Bird and fellow WNBA legend Diana Taurasi lived in a complimentary mansion with a pool and sauna and had access to their team owner's credit card to satisfy any of their needs.
Source: SB Nation
She has stopped playing abroad in recent years, but in late 2018, Sue took on a new role as a basketball operations associate for the NBA's Denver Nuggets.
Source: WNBA
Bird told The Seattle Times she's earning a wage that's "appropriate to the job" but added that "this was more about the experience so the pay is a bonus."
Source: The Seattle Times
All in all, Bird is estimated to have a net worth between $5 million and $8 million, according to multiple sources.
Source: Project Hatch, FanBuzz
Rapinoe, meanwhile, is thought to have a net worth somewhere between $3 million and $3.5 million, various sources suggest.
Source: Celebrity Net Worth, Project Hatch
With the maximum NWSL salary at just $50,000, Megan's fortune did not come from the combined 12 years she's played in the US domestic league and its predecessor, the WPS.
Source: NWSL
And for the two seasons she played in Europe — for French powerhouse Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) — Rapinoe made a $168,000 annual salary.
Source: SBNation
While the USWNT's equal pay lawsuit has left much uncertainty about how much players earn for representing the United States, sources suggest that team salaries fall somewhere between $100,000 and $400,000 annually.
Source: The New York Times, The18.com
Rapinoe has a number of endorsement deals to supplement her income, the most lucrative of which is with Nike.
It still remains to be seen when they'll officially tie the knot, but in the interim, it's more than likely this dynamic duo will continue to make a major impact on and off of the court and field.
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