Josephine Siw Nielsen: Højbjerg's Wife, Kids and Weddings

Josephine Siw Nielsen is the wife of Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, the Denmark midfielder who has played for Olympique de Marseille since 2024. The couple have been together since 2015, married at Copenhagen City Hall in October 2019, held a second, bigger wedding in July 2021, and have three children.

Josephine keeps a fairly low profile, so most of what is written about her online is copied from one blog to the next. In this article, OhMyFootball sorts what reputable Danish, British and French media have actually reported from the guesswork, with everything updated for November 2026.

Who is Pierre-Emile Højbjerg's wife?

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg is married to Josephine Siw. Online she is mostly searched as Josephine Siw Nielsen, Danish media usually call her Josephine Siw, and since the wedding she has used the name Josephine Siw Højbjerg, which is also the name on her Instagram account. The Danish news agency Ritzau described her as his wife in August 2025, and no separation has been reported.

The couple met through a mutual friend in 2014 and became a couple the following year, ALT.dk reported in 2024, citing the Danish magazine Vores Børn. The relationship became public in July 2015, when Højbjerg was a 19-year-old Bayern Munich player. The Danish magazine Se og Hør reported on 3 July 2015 that he had changed his Facebook status to "in a relationship" with Josephine Siw. When the couple married in 2019, B.T. also wrote that they had been together since 2015.

The post above, from Højbjerg's own Instagram account, is a New Year message to his followers. Its first photo shows him seated at a desk in a navy blazer, with Josephine standing beside him in a white dress.

Engagement and the two weddings

Højbjerg proposed in the summer of 2019. On 7 August 2019, B.T. reported that Josephine had announced the engagement on her Instagram account with a Danish caption meaning "happy until the end of our days" and a ring emoji.

Two months later they were married. According to B.T., the wedding took place on Monday 7 October 2019 at Copenhagen City Hall, just before Højbjerg joined the Denmark squad for a training camp in Helsingør. He announced it on Instagram with the words "Started the day with a blast. I'll never forget this day. 7-10-2019." It was a tiny ceremony: according to Billed-Bladet, only the couple and their daughter Rosa were there, and Se og Hør wrote that even Højbjerg's French mother only found out when her son called her.

The couple then threw a much bigger party. On Saturday 17 July 2021, ten days after Denmark's Euro 2020 semi-final against England, they married for the second time, in a church wedding at Sankt Jakobs Kirke in Østerbro, Copenhagen, the district where Højbjerg grew up. Se og Hør reported that his Denmark teammate Jannik Vestergaard was among the guests and that Lukas Graham frontman Lukas Forchhammer sang "Love Someone". Billed-Bladet added that Rosa and Theo were at the church and that the party then moved to a big tent north of Copenhagen. Josephine told the magazine, in Danish, that the party was magical, just as a wedding should be. Højbjerg shared a photo of the couple in their wedding outfits with the caption "Mr & Mrs (for the second time)."

Who is Josephine Siw Nielsen?

Josephine Siw is best known as the wife of Pierre-Emile Højbjerg and the mother of their three children. She is not a celebrity in her own right and rarely speaks to the press. The main exception is a long joint interview with her husband in the Danish parenting magazine Vores Børn in 2023, reported by ALT.dk. In it, the couple described her as the glue that holds the family together, and she said that when the children come to the stadium they only watch small bits of the match, and that "they don't think their dad is a better or worse dad whether he wins or not." She added that Rosa mostly enjoys the autographs and photos, and the moments when older boys at school ask whether it is her dad picking her up.

Otherwise, what she shares publicly comes mainly through her Instagram account, where she posts family moments, holidays, outfits and support for her husband.

Since 2015 she has been at Højbjerg's side through his years at Southampton, Tottenham and Marseille, and through the highs and lows of the Denmark national team.

In June 2026 Josephine posted the photo above on her own account with the Spanish caption "Mamá y papá". It shows the couple side by side, both dressed in black, on a sunny terrace.

Josephine Siw Nielsen bio: age and nationality

Many websites give Josephine a precise birth date, but we could not find it in any reliable source, so we leave it out. What is documented is her age at different moments: The Sun gave her age as 26 in July 2021, and Vores Børn as 29 in November 2023. Together that puts her birth in 1994, so Josephine Siw is about 32 years old in November 2026.

Josephine is Danish. She was born and grew up in Fredensborg, north of Copenhagen, according to Vores Børn, and she writes many of her Instagram captions in Danish. Her husband is also Danish, born on 5 August 1995 in Copenhagen.

The older version of this article also filled this section with zodiac personality traits. They had nothing to do with Josephine, so we have removed them.

Josephine Siw Nielsen family

Josephine has not spoken publicly about her parents or whether she has brothers or sisters, and we have not found reliable reporting on them. The family that is public is the one she has built with Højbjerg.

On his side, family has shaped his story. His father, Christian, died of stomach cancer in April 2014, days after Højbjerg's first start for Bayern Munich. In October 2019, Se og Hør quoted Højbjerg as saying that the birth of his daughter Rosa was the first time since his father's death that he felt life was fantastic. His mother is French, and he holds both Danish and French citizenship. He told BFM Marseille in 2024 that he spent at least three weeks of every summer in France from about the age of three to 15, at his grandparents' country house in Burgundy.

Josephine Siw Nielsen education

Josephine has a bachelor's degree in European Business from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), according to the 2023 Vores Børn interview she gave with her husband.

Some websites go further and list the schools she attended as a teenager, apparently copied from an online CV. She has not talked about that publicly, so we leave it out.

Josephine Siw Nielsen career

In the 2023 Vores Børn interview, Josephine was described as having previously worked in property management and, at the time, as a stay-at-home mother. Older profiles, including the previous version of this page, also named specific Danish companies and job titles, apparently taken from an online CV. She has not confirmed those publicly, so we leave them out. Since then the family has grown to three children, and Højbjerg's career has taken them from London to Marseille.

Josephine Siw Nielsen and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg's children

Josephine and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg have three children:

Rosa, their daughter, born in September 2017, as B.T. reported. She turned 9 in September 2026.
Theo, their son, born in the summer of 2020. Højbjerg announced in February 2020 that they were expecting a son in June, Se og Hør reported, and Billed-Bladet wrote in July 2021 that Theo had been born the previous summer.
Ella, their second daughter, born on Tuesday 4 February 2025. Højbjerg celebrated with the words "Mit første hattrick" ("My first hat-trick"), and Josephine revealed the baby's name in an Instagram story, Se og Hør reported.

In August 2026 Josephine joked on Instagram about spending the summer with "three kids glued to each other" and asked when school would be back.

Who is Pierre-Emile Højbjerg?

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg is a Danish defensive midfielder, born on 5 August 1995 in Copenhagen, which makes him 31 in November 2026. He grew up in the Østerbro district, came through the youth teams of Skjold, KB and Brøndby, and moved to Bayern Munich at 16.

His career so far:

2012: joins Bayern Munich from Brøndby.
April 2013: makes his Bundesliga debut for Bayern aged 17.
2015: loan spells at FC Augsburg (from January) and Schalke 04 (from August).
July 2016: joins Southampton, where he was named captain in December 2018 and lost the armband in June 2020 after saying publicly he wanted to leave.
August 2020: signs for Tottenham Hotspur.
July 2024: joins Olympique de Marseille on loan with an obligation to buy, which made the move permanent in 2025.

At Marseille he quickly became a leader. The club named him one of the team's captains in November 2024, and Ritzau wrote in August 2025 that he regularly wore the armband after a first season in which Marseille finished second in Ligue 1. When Habib Beye replaced Roberto De Zerbi as coach in February 2026, he took the armband from Leonardo Balerdi and gave it to Højbjerg, French media reported.

The summer of 2026 was turbulent. In August, Marseille and Newcastle United agreed a transfer, but Højbjerg turned down the move and stayed. The club's management then took the captaincy away from him, and Bruno Genesio, who had replaced Beye as coach on 1 July 2026, said publicly that the decision had been dictated to him by the club and that he did not share it. Timothy Weah took the armband. After the transfer window closed, club president Stéphane Richard told RMC that Genesio was free to make Højbjerg captain again. On 4 September, though, Genesio said he would leave the armband with Weah, adding that "Pierre-Emile reste un de nos capitaines dans les faits" (Pierre-Emile is still one of our captains in practice). Weah was still wearing the armband in early November 2026.

In this September 2024 interview with BFM Marseille, in French, Højbjerg talks about his arrival at the club, working with De Zerbi, the atmosphere at the Vélodrome (he says his family was there and loved it) and the summers he spent at his grandparents' country house in Burgundy.

Højbjerg and the Denmark national team

Højbjerg made his Denmark debut against Sweden on 28 May 2014, dedicating it to his late father. He was named in UEFA's Team of the Tournament at Euro 2020, when Denmark reached the semi-finals, and he also played at the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024. He was appointed Denmark captain in 2024, after Simon Kjær retired from international football. You can read more about Simon Kjær's wife, Elina Gollert.

The 2026 World Cup campaign ended in heartbreak. Denmark finished second in their qualifying group behind Scotland, who beat them 4-2 at Hampden Park on 18 November 2025. In the play-offs, Denmark beat North Macedonia 4-0 in Copenhagen on 26 March 2026, but lost the final in Prague on 31 March: Czechia won 3-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw after extra time. Højbjerg was in the starting line-up in Prague, and Denmark missed the World Cup. One of Denmark's goals in that final was scored by Joachim Andersen: you can read about Joachim Andersen and Cecilie Porsdal here.

On 1 October 2026 Højbjerg won his 100th cap, in a 4-2 Nations League defeat to Portugal. The Danish FA said he was only the 12th player to reach 100 games for the men's national team, and Højbjerg wrote on Instagram that the national team shirt is the most important shirt he can wear. Three days later he captained Denmark in a 1-0 win in Cardiff against Wales, but went off injured early. Tests in Marseille showed a thigh injury, and L'Équipe reported that he would be out for at least two weeks. He was back in Marseille's starting line-up by the start of November.

Josephine Siw Nielsen net worth

There is no reliable figure for Josephine Siw's net worth. She has no documented business of her own, and the numbers on celebrity sites are guesses. The earlier version of this page quoted a net worth figure for Højbjerg without a source, so we have removed it too.

What is documented is the scale of his transfers. Tottenham paid Southampton a reported initial £15 million in 2020, and the obligation to buy in his Marseille loan was reported at around £17 million.

Josephine is on Instagram as @josephinesiw, under the name Josephine Siw Højbjerg. You can find her account here. In November 2026 the profile was public, with about 7,000 followers. She posts family moments, trips with friends, holidays and pictures with her husband, often with captions in Danish or English.

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg's account is @hojbjerg23, with about 500,000 followers. His bio says it is his only social media account.

Facts about Josephine Siw Nielsen

She has been with Pierre-Emile Højbjerg since 2015.
They married at Copenhagen City Hall on 7 October 2019 and held a second wedding in Østerbro on 17 July 2021.
She was born and raised in Fredensborg, north of Copenhagen, and is about 32 in 2026.
She has a bachelor's degree in European Business from Copenhagen Business School.
She has worked in property management.
The couple have three children: Rosa (born 2017), Theo (born 2020) and Ella (born 2025).
Her husband has played for Olympique de Marseille since 2024.
Her Instagram handle is @josephinesiw.

Frequently asked questions about Josephine Siw Nielsen

Is Pierre-Emile Højbjerg married?

Yes. He married Josephine Siw at Copenhagen City Hall on 7 October 2019, and the couple held a second, larger wedding in Copenhagen on 17 July 2021.

Who is Højbjerg's wife?

Højbjerg's wife is Josephine Siw, often searched as Josephine Siw Nielsen and now known as Josephine Siw Højbjerg. They have been together since 2015.

How old is Josephine Siw Nielsen?

Josephine was 26 in July 2021, according to The Sun, and 29 in November 2023, according to Vores Børn, so she is about 32 years old in November 2026. Her exact birth date has not been confirmed by a reliable source.

How many children do Højbjerg and Josephine have?

Three: a daughter, Rosa, born in September 2017, a son, Theo, born in 2020, and a second daughter, Ella, born in February 2025.

Where does Højbjerg play now?

As of November 2026, Højbjerg plays for Olympique de Marseille in Ligue 1. He joined on loan from Tottenham in July 2024 and the move became permanent in 2025.

Is Højbjerg still Marseille captain?

He lost the armband in August 2026 after turning down a move to Newcastle. The club later said coach Bruno Genesio could give it back, but Genesio chose to keep Timothy Weah as captain, and Weah still wore the armband in early November 2026.