Lexie Wiggly is best known as the former wife of J.B. Mauney, the two-time PBR world champion bull rider many fans call the greatest of his generation. Their marriage, from 2012 to 2015, coincided with the very peak of his career — world titles, record prize money and some of the most famous rides in rodeo history. They share a daughter, Bella. Since the divorce, Lexie has done something rare among celebrity ex-spouses: she has walked away from the spotlight almost entirely, rebuilding a quiet life in North Carolina as a licensed esthetician.
Searches for her name rise whenever Mauney’s legend is in the news, because fans who watched those championship years remember the woman in the stands — and then notice she vanished. She has never sold her story, never courted the cameras, and gives no interviews. What follows is everything that is publicly known about her, drawn from reporting on Mauney’s career and profiles of her life, with the many unverified claims that circulate online clearly flagged as such.
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Quick Facts
| Full name | Lexie (her surname also appears as “Wigley” in some records) |
| Born | 1987, per profiles; her exact birth date has never been publicly confirmed |
| Known for | Former wife of PBR world champion bull rider J.B. Mauney |
| Marriage | Married J.B. Mauney in 2012; divorced in 2015 |
| Daughter | Bella Mauney, born in 2011, per profiles |
| Her work | Licensed esthetician specialising in eyelash extensions |
| Where she lives now | North Carolina, living a private life away from the spotlight |
Who Is Lexie Wiggly?
Lexie Wiggly is an American esthetician whose name entered public conversation through one relationship: her marriage to bull riding superstar J.B. Mauney. Before, during and after that marriage, she has been a fundamentally private person. She never built a public brand, never launched a reality career, and has left so light a footprint online that even basic details of her biography are reported inconsistently from site to site.
That scarcity of information is itself the defining feature of her story. Mauney’s career is documented down to individual ride scores; his former wife’s life is documented mostly in outline. Profiles agree on the frame — a North Carolina woman with a beauty-industry career, a three-year marriage to a champion at his peak, a daughter, and a deliberate retreat into privacy — while disagreeing, sometimes wildly, on the details in between.
This guide therefore separates the two. The confirmed record comes first: the marriage dates recorded in Mauney’s biography, the championship years they shared, and the career she is consistently reported to have built since. Where a detail rests only on profile sites — her birth year, her childhood interests, how the couple met — it is labelled as reported rather than proven. With a subject this private, honesty about the gaps is part of the story. It is the fairest way to tell the Lexie Wiggly story: what is known, what is reported, and what is simply unknown.
Early Life: A North Carolina Upbringing
Per profiles, Lexie was born in 1987 and raised in North Carolina — the same state where Mauney grew up, and where she is reported to still live and work today. Some profiles link her childhood to Stephenville, Texas, the town that would later become Mauney’s ranch base, but the stronger thread in reporting places her roots in North Carolina, and no profile cites a primary source for either claim. Her exact birth date has never been confirmed publicly. Almost everything reported about the young Lexie Wiggly carries that same caution.
What the profiles agree on is the shape of her younger years. She is described as an active, creative child with early interests in gymnastics, dance and acting, and as a member of her high school drama club who once considered performing as a career. Profiles report that she graduated from high school in 2005 and are said to presume a college degree followed around 2009 — wording that itself admits the record is thin.
The path she actually took was more practical, and it began before fame touched her life. Per those same profiles, she trained in skincare and beauty services and was already building a working life as an esthetician before she met Mauney. That early career matters to her story: when the marriage ended, it was the anchor she returned to — a profession of her own, built on her own name, waiting for her outside the arena.
Marriage to J.B. Mauney: A Blind Date and a 2012 Wedding
How the couple met is told the same way in several rodeo profiles: on a blind date arranged by mutual friends. A North Carolina beauty professional and the most fearless bull rider of his era were, on paper, an unlikely pairing — her world was salons and skincare, his was bucking chutes and broken bones — but the match worked quickly. They married in 2012, when Mauney was 25 and already one of the PBR’s biggest stars.
The timing placed her at the centre of a sporting fairytale. Mauney had joined the PBR in 2005, won Rookie of the Year in 2006, and built a reputation for deliberately choosing the rankest, most dangerous bulls in every draw — “If you want to be the best, you’ve got to ride the best,” as he put it. Marrying him meant marrying that creed, with everything it promised and everything it cost. For Lexie Wiggly, marriage meant joining that world at full speed.
One part of the timeline profiles consistently note: their daughter, Bella, was born in 2011, roughly a year before the wedding. Fatherhood, then, came to Mauney just before marriage did, and the couple’s public life together — the events, the stands, the cameras — unfolded with a little girl already at the heart of it. By all accounts she remained there for both parents long after the marriage itself was over.
Life on the Rodeo Circuit: The Championship Years
To understand those three years, consider what Mauney did inside them. In August 2013, in Tulsa, he rode the legendary bull Bushwacker — a champion bull almost no one could stay on — for 95.25 points, one of the most celebrated rides in PBR history. That autumn he won his first PBR World Championship. In 2015, the final year of the marriage, he won the world title again. The years Lexie spent as his wife were, professionally, the summit of his life.
Life beside that summit was less glamorous than the highlight reels. A PBR season is a grind of cross-country travel, weekend after weekend, and bull riding’s injury lists are brutal reading — Mauney’s own career included broken bones, a ruptured liver and repeated surgeries, and the years of the marriage were no exception. The rider’s wife watches every eight seconds knowing the next landing could mean a hospital. Profiles of the couple describe Lexie as a regular, supportive presence at events during this period.
The money told the same story of a peak: in November 2016, just after the marriage ended, Mauney became the first bull rider in history to pass $7 million in career earnings. The fortune was built substantially during the years they were together — years in which she was running the home side of a life lived out of trucks, hotels and arenas. It is part of why fans remain curious about the woman who shared the climb, even though she has never spoken about it herself.
The Divorce in 2015
The marriage ended in divorce in 2015 — the same year Mauney won his second world championship, a coincidence that sums up the split between his public trajectory and his private one. Neither party has ever given a detailed public account of why the marriage failed, and no scandal attached itself to the ending. The divorce was finalised quietly, and both moved on without public recrimination. For Lexie Wiggly, the split quietly closed the most public chapter of her life.
What reporting exists points to the familiar pressures of the sport rather than any single dramatic cause: relentless travel, constant injury risk, and the total commitment elite bull riding demands. One rodeo profile repeats an unconfirmed rumour that the two differed over having more children — a claim neither has ever verified, and one that should be treated as speculation. The honest summary is simpler: two young people married at the height of an all-consuming career, and the marriage did not survive it.
Mauney’s own next chapter is a matter of record. In January 2017 he married Samantha Lyne, a professional barrel racer and the daughter of five-time PRCA world champion Phil Lyne, and in January 2019 they welcomed a son, Jagger Briggs Mauney — Bella’s younger half-brother. Lexie, by contrast, stepped off the stage entirely. The contrast between the ex-spouses’ choices after 2015 — his continued public career, her near-total privacy — is the clearest statement either of them has made.
Life After Divorce: The Esthetician Career
After the divorce, Lexie returned to the profession she had built before the marriage: esthetics. Profiles consistently describe her as a licensed esthetician based in North Carolina, specialising in voluminous eyelash extensions and related skincare services. It is detail-oriented, appointment-based work with a loyal local clientele — about as far from arena lights as a career can be, and by every account that distance was the point. It was, by all accounts, exactly the life Lexie Wiggly had wanted back.
Profiles also describe a lifestyle rebuilt around wellness: regular gym sessions, yoga and meditation are the interests most often attached to her name. Such details rest on profile reporting rather than her own statements — she gives none — but they fit the broader, well-attested pattern of a life deliberately organised around health, work and her daughter rather than around visibility.
That last part deserves emphasis, because searches for her name often assume a public social-media presence. The more careful profiles say the opposite: that she keeps no high-profile public accounts, and that any profiles under her name are private, sparse or impossible to verify. Follower counts and influencer statistics published by some net-worth sites cannot be verified against any confirmed account and should not be trusted. Her fame, such as it is, is something that happened to her — not something she has ever tried to use.
Where Is Lexie Wiggly Now?
As far as public reporting goes, Lexie Wiggly remains in North Carolina, working in esthetics and raising her daughter, who is now in her teens. She has not remarried publicly, given interviews, or re-entered rodeo’s public world, even as Mauney’s career reached its dramatic end — a broken neck in September 2023 forced his retirement, and he has since coached a PBR team and been inducted into the Bull Riding Hall of Fame. None of it drew a public comment from her.
The question of money follows her name online, so it deserves a straight answer: her net worth has never been publicly disclosed, and no verified figure exists. Sites that publish precise numbers for her are estimating without evidence — typically by recycling each other’s guesses. What can honestly be said is that she earns her living from her own skilled trade, and that any claim beyond that is unverified.
There is a footnote readers should know about, because it explains much of the confusion around her. Her surname appears in print as Wiggly, Wigley and even Wiggle, sometimes within coverage of the same events; Mauney’s own reference biography uses one spelling while most profiles use another. A handful of sites go further, attaching to her name a different woman’s biography entirely — rodeo-queen titles and timelines that contradict the recorded marriage dates. The documented core of her story is the one told here: a private North Carolina esthetician, a three-year marriage to a champion, a daughter, and a decade of chosen quiet since.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Lexie Wiggly?
Lexie Wiggly is a North Carolina esthetician best known as the former wife of two-time PBR world champion bull rider J.B. Mauney. They married in 2012 and divorced in 2015, and they share a daughter, Bella.
When were Lexie and J.B. Mauney married?
They married in 2012, during Mauney’s peak PBR years, and their divorce was finalised in 2015 — the same year he won his second world championship. They reportedly met on a blind date arranged by mutual friends.
Do Lexie and J.B. Mauney have children?
Yes — one daughter, Bella Mauney, born in 2011 per profiles, shortly before the wedding. Bella has a younger half-brother, Jagger Briggs Mauney, born in January 2019 to Mauney and his second wife, Samantha Lyne.
What does Lexie Wiggly do for a living?
She is a licensed esthetician based in North Carolina, specialising in eyelash extensions and skincare services — the career she had begun before her marriage and returned to after the divorce.
Is Lexie Wiggly on social media?
She keeps a very low profile and has no confirmed, high-profile public accounts. Profiles describe her social media presence as minimal or private, and follower statistics published elsewhere are unverified.
What is Lexie Wiggly’s net worth?
It is not publicly known. She has never disclosed her finances, and figures published online are unverified estimates with no reliable source behind them.
Conclusion
Her story is, in the end, a story about the years around a legend — and about declining to live in his shadow afterwards. For three years she was the wife of the most electrifying bull rider alive, sharing the championship seasons, the injuries and the road. When the marriage ended in 2015, she went back to the life that had been hers before it: skilled work, her daughter, and privacy.
That is why her name keeps being searched a decade later. Mauney’s rides are part of rodeo history, and fans naturally wonder about the woman who was beside him for the greatest of them. The answer the record gives is a quietly admirable one: she was there for the summit, and then she built a life of her own — on her own terms, and almost entirely out of view. The rider’s own story is told in full in our profile, JB Mauney: The Legendary Bull Riding Champion.
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