Gena O'Kelley met Chuck Norris in Dallas in 1997, while he was, by his own account, on a dinner date with another woman; within a year, the model had become his wife and, by 2001, the mother of his twins. On 20 March 2026, she was also the person his family statement placed at the centre of his final hours, as Chuck Norris died in a hospital in Hawaii at the age of 86.
