Mikaela Shiffrin just launched her brand-new podcast What’s the Point with the perfect first guest—her fiancé and fellow ski superstar Aleksander Aamodt Kilde—and the couple delivered an instant classic.
In a candid, laugh-filled episode released October 31, 2025, the alpine skiing power duo finally told the full story of how they actually met… and completely botched their first shot at romance nearly a decade ago.
It all started in Chile at an Atomic sponsor trip. Shiffrin and Kilde were the only two athletes who arrived a day early, so they ended up having dinner together—along with Shiffrin’s mom and her agent. Kilde insists it wasn’t awkward at all. Shiffrin begged to differ.
The next day at the media event, a shy, early-20s Shiffrin hid in the back row. Kilde walked straight over and sat right next to her, instantly sparking her inner monologue: “Is this guy hitting on me?”
Later, Kilde slid into her Facebook Messenger DMs (yes, Facebook Messenger) asking when they were grabbing dinner again. Shiffrin, attempting to play it cool and flirty, replied, “We already had dinner.” Kilde interpreted that as a hard no and backed off. Shiffrin thought he’d ghosted her. Classic miscommunication.
Fast-forward years later, and the rest—as Shiffrin’s mom cheerfully shouted off-camera—is history. The pair eventually reconnected, fell in love, got engaged in April 2024, and are now one of winter sports’ favorite couples.
On the wedding front, fans can relax: “We’re going to get married, guys, calm down,” Shiffrin laughed, acknowledging the packed schedule ahead with the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics just months away and Kilde still rehabbing from his devastating January 2024 crash.
Kilde revealed he told Shiffrin during the proposal there was zero rush: “I just know you’re the woman in my life, and that’s gonna happen.”
From an awkward sponsor dinner to almost losing each other over a misunderstood message, Shiffrin and Kilde’s origin story is proof that sometimes the best love stories need a second (or third) lap down the mountain.
