Jessica Delp - MLB Right Fielder Kris Bryant’s Striking Wife
Jessica Delp not only has time raising three kids and supporting his popular baseball player husband. She manages her time as a wife to Kris Bryant, a mother, and a homemaker. Still, she exerts effort to support charities and advocacies.
Jessica Delpis primarily known for being the wife of Kris Bryant, a professional baseball player who has played as a right fielder for Major League Baseball (MLB) teams.
Of course, aside from being the other half of a popular athlete, she is also more than just a pretty face.
Let’s find out more about Jessica Delp, the woman who won the admiration of Kris Bryant.
Two of those millennials born between 1982 and 1994 are Jessica Delp and his older brother.
She was born on March 4, 1992 (astrological sign: Pisces) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
His father is David Delp. Her mother’s name is Yoko. Same first name as that other - and far more famous - Yoko Ono, the Japanese singer and artist and widow of John Lennon (1940-1980) of the Beatles.
Like Mrs. Lennon, Mrs. Delp is of Japanese descent, too. So, we can say that Jessica Delp has Japanese blood in her.
An alumna of Arizona State University, Yoko Delp is a business owner and member of the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce (LVACC).
She is the president of Starr Travel, Inc., a travel agency in South Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas.
The only male sibling of Jessica Delp is Robert Tomotaka “Tomo” Delp.
He was born on June 11, 1990 in Las Vegas. Tomo, who stands 6’4, is a baseball player(position: infield) for the University of Maryland.
Both of them graduated from Bonanza High School in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada.
They have another sibling named Joyce Delp. According to the site Maryland Terrapins (umterps.com), she played softball while a student at Towson University in Maryland.
She is now Mrs. Burrell (married an African American named Emmanuel) and now lives in Maryland with her husband and their two kids.
Jessica Delp attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), a top-notch research university in Paradise, Nevada.
Per Sportskeeda, she, like her two siblings, was also into sports and played softball and basketball as a student.
Tomo in white shirt, Joyce in a sleeveless black top and floral skirt, Yoko in navy blue dress and Jessica Delp
Kristopher Lee Bryant, aka Kris Bryant (also as “KB”) was born on January 4, 1992, in Las Vegas.
After high school, he played college baseball at the University of San Diego. The Chicago Cubs selected him as the second overall pick in the 2013 MLB Draft.
He made his MLB debut on April 17, 2015. The husband of Jessica Delp made an immediate impact, winning the National League Rookie of the Year award that season.
Kris Bryant is known for his powerful swing and ability to hit for both average and power.
In the 2021 MLB season, he was traded from the Chicago Cubs to the San Francisco Giants.
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As of April 8, 2023, the estimated net worth of Kris Bryant was $8 million. As his legal wife, that could also be the net worth of Jessica Delp.
With the multi-million-dollar contracts of Kris, they can afford life’s luxuries.
According to Inside Weddings, Ines Di Santo created Jessica’s gown. Based on the designer’s website, her gowns can range from $3,500 to $20,000.
In 2017, they took a vacation in Austria.
As a Christmas present in 2017, Kris Bryant and Jessica Delp surprised Yoko Delp with a truly expensive gift: a brand-new black Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV.
Per California-based automotive research company Kelley Blue Book, the said 2017 Jeep vehicle’s price range was $31,300-$54,500.
Jessica Delp in beige overcoat and Kris Bryant in puffer jacket over a black hoodie in Austria
Though there is little information available from celebrity-related websites, the tweets of Jessica Delp (@Jess__bryant) provide a good glimpse of her life and of her as a person.
Below are 12 fun facts based on some of her tweets:
1. She seems to be a genuinely wonderful person.
After her 2016 interview with her in Chicago, FOX 32 News reporter Elizabeth Matthews described Jessica Delp as “sooo nice.” (October 16, 2016 tweet)
2. She described herself more than once as “a kid at heart.”
In fact, she wanted adults to still do the Easter egg hunt. (March 28, 2016 tweet)
3. On a more serious side of her, she also described herself as someone “passionate about mental health issues.” (January 28, 2016 tweet)
4. Jessica Delp and Kris Bryant were the “cutest couple.”
In their high school yearbook, they got chosen among contenders as the “cutest couple.” (July 7, 2017 tweet)
5. On their first date, they opted to see the 2007 comedy Superbad.
It’s about two high school seniors (played by Michael Cera and Jonah Hill) and the party they planned that went hilariously crazy.
The problem was, it was an R-rated film. The plot twist of their movie date? They were able to snuck into the movie house without getting caught! (July 6, 2017 tweet)
6. She and her husband like the pepperoni pizza from Siena Tavern, an Italian restaurant in Chicago. (July 6, 2017 tweet)
Jessica Delp also craves for fast food from Chick-fil-A. (September 1, 2015 tweet)
Jessica Delp on the bleachers in a custom white Kris Bryant shirt with sky blue long sleeves
7. She likes cooking (enrolled in a cooking class in 2015) and baking. (November 10, 2015 tweet)
Every Thanksgiving Day, her “fav [sic]part” of the occasion is making these two fantastic desserts: (November 27, 2015 tweet)
cranberry apple pie
chocolate pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust
8. She enjoys traveling by air!
In addition to that, she likes being early in the airport. (September 11, 2016 tweet)
9. She’s a fan (follows her on Twitter) of actress and activist Sophia Bush (One Tree Hilland Chicago P.D.).
10. Jessica Delp is into charity work and advocates various causes.
In 2017, together with fellow wives of Chicago Cubs players, she sold game tickets. The proceeds went to the victims of the hurricane in Puerto Rico.
She promoted a donation campaign for the victims of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
She and other Cubs wives baked cookies in support of the works of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland (RMHC-CNI).
She joined the 11th Race to Wrigley (an annual charity run) in 2016.
She supports The Jason Motte Foundation, a charity in Tempe, Arizona that aims to “strike out cancer” - its tagline.
She helped the telecoms company Bell Canada in promoting “Bell Let’s Talk,” a mental health campaign.
On January 28, 2016, in relation to this campaign, she tweeted:
“„
I hope people learn the impact they can have by listening, understanding & supporting each other.- Jessica Delp-Bryant
11. She likes reading and Broadway shows.
Hamiltonis one of her favorite shows. (March 17, 2016 tweet)
12. Jessica Delp is a certified Harry Potter fan. (August 5, 2016 tweet)
It’s no surprise then when she tweeted about her visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Orlando Resort in Florida. (June 28, 2016 tweet)
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