MIAMI Heat center Meyers Leonard hit the headlines after he was seemingly caught using an anti-Semitic slur during a livestream. The Virginia-born basketballer, 29, who was recorded using the shocking slur on a Twitch stream, is married to Elle Bielfeldt. Who is Meyers Leonard’s Elle Bielfeldt wife? Elle Bielfeldt, 29, describes herself as an entrepreneur. […]
MIAMI Heat center Meyers Leonard hit the headlines after he was seemingly caught using an anti-Semitic slur during a livestream.
The Virginia-born basketballer, 29, who was recorded using the shocking slur on a Twitch stream, is married to Elle Bielfeldt.
Elle Bielfeldt, 29, describes herself as an entrepreneur.
Like her husband, she is also a basketball player.
According to reports, Elle played basketball with the Peoria Notre Dame girls team.
The couple also co-founded the Meyers Leonard brand – an apparel and lifestyle brand.
Elle also founded Level Foods – a protein bar business – in 2018 after finding her husband was struggling to sleep and recover from basketball training.
Describing the start of the company on its website, Elle said: “During the chaotic basketball season, sticking to Meyers’ diet plan was proving difficult.
“Limited snack options at the gym and on the road left Meyers resorting back to foods that weren’t approved in his new diet. So, I started presenting him with new bar options.
“You would think that in a category with an overwhelming number of choices, there would have been one option that met both his standards and mine. And yet, option after option fell short.
“So on January 6th, 2018, I decided to take matters into my own hands and got into the kitchen myself.
“One batch of bars became two, and two batches quickly turned to ten. Before I knew it, I couldn’t keep up with the demand.”
The couple have been dating since 2011, when Elle was 19.
She recently posted a sweet set of photos on Instagram to her 80,000 followers to mark Valentine’s Day.
She said: “When your 19 year old sweetheart is the same as your 29, I really couldn’t ask for a better Valentine.”
The couple tied the knot in 2015.
“We started dating at 19 years old,” she wrote on their anniversary on August 3, 2020.
“At 20, Meyers moved to Oregon. At 22, I graduated and Meyers proposed a few days later. At 23, we got married.
“And today on our 5th anniversary, I feel lucky that we’re still laughing and looking at each other just like we did in this moment.”
The couple do not have any children.
But Elle and Meyers have an adorable pooch who frequently features on their Instagram feed.
Elle’s social media was flooded by negative comments from people who watched Meyers’ video.
Meyers is currently out for the remainder of the basketball season after suffering a shoulder injury and last played in an NBA game in January.
He built up a substantial following sharing his streaming sessions in recent years, earning him a partnership with professional eSports organization FaZe Clan in June 2019.
He boasts over 69,000 Twitch followers and more than 550,000 between Twitter and Instagram.
The Heat have not yet publicly responded to their star center’s use of the racist term as he played Call of Duty on Twitch.
