{"id":14118,"date":"2019-03-20T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2023-05-01T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T16:02:05","slug":"tim-tebow-miss-universe-demi-nel-peters-saving-sex-for-wedding-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/03\/tim-tebow-miss-universe-demi-nel-peters-saving-sex-for-wedding-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tebow, Miss Universe Demi Nel-Peters Saved Sex For Wedding Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21274\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2019\/03\/tim-tebow-miss-universe-demi-nel-peters_credit-demitebow-instagram-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21274\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2019\/03\/tim-tebow-miss-universe-demi-nel-peters_credit-demitebow-instagram-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@DemiTebow \/ Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Christian athlete Tim Tebow proposed to his girlfriend, former Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, at the start of 2019 and the pair married in 2020. Tebow maintained his virginity until his marriage, and the couple famously choose to save sex for their wedding night.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow, a 32-year-old virgin at the time of his marriage, said he would save himself for marriage since the beginning of his career, which many fans supported. When he became engaged, he vowed to keep that promise to God and said he was joyful that Nel-Peters wanted to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a choice that we made, that we both wanted to do that together and we\u2019ll try to make it as special as possible,\u201d Tebow said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked when he knew that Nel-Peters was the one, Tebow had this to say: \u201cYou know what\u2019s crazy is we both kinda knew the first or second time we hung out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tebow shares more in the interview below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tim Tebow on Abstinence with Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, How They Met and When He Knew She Was &quot;The One&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1OYeOsJfdA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian athlete Tim Tebow proposed to his girlfriend, former Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, at the start of 2019 and the pair married in 2020. Tebow maintained his virginity until his marriage, and the couple famously choose to save sex for their wedding night. Tebow, a 32-year-old virgin at the time of his marriage, said he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":21274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3383,3294,10],"tags":[3385,3936,1161,3935,914,1084],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-christian-celebrity","category-football","category-sports","tag-christian-celebrity","tag-demi-nel-peters","tag-football","tag-miss-universe","tag-nfl","tag-tim-tebow"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tim Tebow, Miss Universe Demi Nel-Peters Saved Sex For Wedding Night<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cIt\u2019s just a choice that we made, that we both wanted to do that together and 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