Isabelle Matuidi: Blaise Matuidi's Wife, Age and Family

Isabelle Matuidi is the wife of the former France midfielder Blaise Matuidi, a 2018 World Cup winner. The couple met as teenagers in Troyes, married on 1 July 2017 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and have four children. Isabelle is an entrepreneur: she founded the children's brand GIMmini Kids and, according to French magazine Pure People, was launching a fitness venture in autumn 2026. Blaise retired from football in December 2022 and has since worked as an investor.

This page was rewritten in November 2026 to replace out-of-date information. The old version said the couple got together at Saint-Étienne, quoted a net worth and salary we could not source, and listed her height and weight. We have removed what we could not verify.

Who is Isabelle Matuidi?

Isabelle Matuidi is a French businesswoman, known publicly as the wife of Blaise Matuidi. Pure People describes her as the founder and CEO of the children's brand GIMmini Kids and as the head of a company called Sculpt. She is active on Instagram under the handle @isabelle.matuidi.

She is a private person who shares her family life and her projects mostly through her own social media accounts. We could not find a long interview with her, so most of what follows comes from what she and her husband have said in the French press or posted themselves.

How old is Isabelle Matuidi?

Isabelle Matuidi has not published her year of birth, and we have not found it in a reliable source. Pure People called her 38 in an article of 6 October 2026, and in 2021 the same outlet reported that she had announced her fourth pregnancy on her birthday, 3 November.

Our earlier article said she was born on 1 November and that her star sign shaped her character. We have taken both out: the date does not match the press reports, and a star sign says nothing about a person.

Isabelle Matuidi's origins and family

Where Isabelle's family comes from has not been published by a reliable outlet, and we could not find her parents named in the press. She met Blaise in Troyes as a teenager. Her husband's story is different: Blaise Matuidi was born in Toulouse on 9 April 1987 to parents who had left Angola for Zaire before settling in Europe, according to French Wikipedia, and he has said he feels closer to Congolese culture.

We do not guess at anyone's ethnicity or religion. If Isabelle chooses to talk about her roots, we will update this section.

How Blaise and Isabelle Matuidi met

According to Pure People, which cited a Gala interview published in May 2021, the two met as teenagers in Troyes in the Aube, when Blaise was in the training centre of ES Troyes AC (ESTAC). Blaise joked that he "had to work hard" to win her over and that she did not make it easy. That corrects our old claim that the relationship started when he played for Saint-Étienne: Blaise only moved there in 2007, after his Troyes years.

Blaise has since said he planned his marriage proposal carefully. According to the same Pure People article, he proposed at the Grand Rex cinema in Paris with a video shown before a film.

The wedding

Blaise and Isabelle Matuidi married on 1 July 2017 at the Église Saint-Pierre in Neuilly-sur-Seine, according to Pure People. That summer Blaise left Paris Saint-Germain for Juventus. The couple had been together for years by then and already had three children.

We have not been able to verify a guest list or other details of the day, and we do not repeat gossip-site accounts of it.

Isabelle Matuidi's career and business

Isabelle's business activity is one of the better documented parts of her life, because she has announced it herself:

GIMmini Kids: a children's brand she founded and runs as CEO, according to Pure People.
Sculpt: a company she leads, per the same outlet.
Fitness Reformer Academy and the RYFT method: announced on her Instagram in autumn 2026, an academy that trains professional coaches in reformer-based fitness, according to Pure People on 6 October 2026.

Our old article said she became a certified baker in 2019. We could not confirm that and have removed it.

In October 2026 Pure People quoted her as saying that, even while fighting cancer, she tries every day to keep her strength and her drive to move forward.

Blaise and Isabelle Matuidi's children

The couple have four children. Pure People gave their ages in October 2026 as 16, 13, 11 and 5. The youngest, Nahla Ivy, was born in January 2021, a few months after the family moved to the United States; Isabelle announced the birth and the baby's name on Instagram in February 2021. We do not publish the children's birth dates or photos, and the other three children's names are left out here out of respect for their privacy.

The family settled in Miami when Blaise joined Inter Miami in 2020, and Pure People reported in October 2026 that they still live there.

Who is Blaise Matuidi?

Blaise Matuidi is a French former midfielder, born on 9 April 1987 in Toulouse, so he is 39 as of November 2026. He was known as a tireless left-footed ball winner who also covered ground in attack. Here is his career, as listed by French Wikipedia and Fox Sports:

2000 to 2003: INF Clairefontaine national training centre, then the ES Troyes AC academy (2003 to 2004).
2004 to 2007: ES Troyes AC, Ligue 2 then Ligue 1.
2007 to 2011: AS Saint-Étienne, captain from the 2008/09 season.
2011 to 2017: Paris Saint-Germain, 295 appearances and 33 goals, with several Ligue 1 titles, several Coupe de la Ligue wins and three Coupe de France wins.
2017 to 2020: Juventus, three straight Serie A titles (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20) and the 2017/18 Coppa Italia.
2020 to 2022: Inter Miami in Major League Soccer, 48 appearances and 2 goals.
23 December 2022: announced his retirement at 35, saying he was "turning the page".

Over his career he played 699 matches and scored 50 goals, per French Wikipedia.

Blaise Matuidi with France

Matuidi won 84 caps and scored 9 goals for France between 2010 and 2019. He was in the squads for the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016, where France lost the final to Portugal, and he started the 2018 World Cup final, which France won. He was named in the Euro 2012 squad but did not play there. French Wikipedia also lists him in the Ligue 1 team of the season for 2012/13.

What does Blaise Matuidi do in 2026?

He is no longer a player, and we found no reliable report of a coaching or club job in November 2026. His public activity since retiring is mostly in business and media:

Investing: in 2022 he co-founded the US-based fund Origins with Salomon Aiach and Ilan Abehassera, and in February 2025 he launched a co-investment club on the Roundtable platform, according to Maddyness. SiGMA World described him at the AIBC Eurasia conference in Dubai in 2026 as the founder of a venture fund linking sport and technology.
Television: in January 2023 he was the first guest investor on M6's Qui veut être mon associé ?, after appearing by video link in the previous season to explain why his fund had invested in a start-up pitching on the show.
Social work: UN-Habitat named him its Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Africa in April 2021.
Football comment: speaking to beIN Sports before France's round-of-16 match against Paraguay at the World Cup, and he praised Bayern's Michael Olise.

For other French internationals' families, see our profiles of Camille Tytgat (Varane), Jennifer Giroud and Marine Lloris.

Blaise Matuidi's net worth

We could not find a figure for Blaise Matuidi's wealth or Isabelle's from a reliable source, so we do not give one. Our old article quoted a net worth of over 55 million euros, a salary and a weekly wage; those numbers came from sites that estimate and do not show their sources, and we have removed them. What is documented are the roles listed above: a long career at PSG and Juventus and later investment work.

Quick facts

Isabelle Matuidi: French entrepreneur, founder of GIMmini Kids, Instagram @isabelle.matuidi.
Husband: Blaise Matuidi, born 9 April 1987 in Toulouse, retired 23 December 2022.
Met: as teenagers in Troyes.
Married: 1 July 2017, Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Children: four, the youngest born in January 2021.
Birthday: 3 November, per Pure People (year not confirmed by her).