{"id":436886,"date":"2026-01-30T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/436886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:29:18","slug":"meet-90s-ice-hockey-legend-mario-lemieuxs-devoted-wife-of-33-years-and-their-four-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/436886\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet 90s ice hockey legend Mario Lemieux’s devoted wife of 33 years and their four children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Lemieux \u2013 aka \u201cThe Magnificent One\u201d \u2013 spent 17 seasons dominating the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins, carving out a legacy on the ice that few can match. Off the rink, he\u2019s known for his unwavering commitment to charity, co-founding the Mario Lemieux Foundation with his wife<\/a> Nathalie and inspiring his four children<\/a> to carry on the family<\/a> tradition of giving back.<\/p>\n

From his daughters championing the foundation alongside their parents to his son who followed in his father\u2019s footsteps, we\u2019re taking a look at the Hockey Hall of Famer\u2019s devoted family and how they\u2019re supporting Mario\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

\"LAS\u00a9 Ron Galella Collection via Getty<\/p>\n

Mario and Nathalie together in 2000<\/p>\n

Nathalie Asselin<\/p>\n

The NHL star met his wife in 1982 and it was love at first sight for the pair, who tied the knot the following year at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Nathalie\u2019s hometown. The couple were already parents to two-month old daughter Lauren, who attended the lavish affair alongside almost 400 guests.<\/p>\n

Mario has previously gushed about how Nathalie helped him through both his career and health problems; the Hall of Fame player previously battled Hodgkin\u2019s disease in 1993 and later a heart problem, one of the catalysts for his retirement in 2006.<\/p>\n

“With the back infection, she was my nurse for three months,” he told Maclean’s Magazine<\/a> in 1996, per The Canadian Encyclopedia. “She learned how to do the intravenous and all that other stuff. She was there every day.”<\/p>\n

The couple are also co-founders of the Mario Lemieux Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to cancer research following Mario\u2019s own battle.<\/p>\n

\"E.RUTHERFORD,\u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mario during a 1993 game, the same year he welcomed his first daughter<\/p>\n

Lauren Lemieux (1993)<\/p>\n

Mario\u2019s eldest daughter Lauren has carved out her own path in the hockey world. She is currently the Manager of Partnership Marketing for her father\u2019s former team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, combining her love of the game with a finance degree from Babson College.<\/p>\n

Lauren is also closely involved with the Mario Lemieux Foundation, where she launched Club 66, an organisation connecting young professionals in Pittsburgh. She also helped establish a program that delivers blankets to patients at the Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers at UPMC Hillman, alongside a heartfelt note from \u201cThe Magnificent One\u201d himself.<\/p>\n

\"Stephanie\u00a9 mylittlemoo.com<\/p>\n

Stephanie supports her father’s foundation with her clothing brand<\/p>\n

Stephanie Lemieux (1995)<\/p>\n

After playing hockey as a teen, including a season with the Pittsburgh Penguins Elite U19, Stephanie went on to play hockey at Boston University. After which, she founded a children\u2019s clothing brand called Little Moo, and partnered with her father\u2019s foundation to raise money for cancer research.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to include philanthropy with the brand just because those values were instilled in me from as far back as I can remember,\u201d she told Pitt To The Point<\/a>, also revealing that the brand\u2019s name is a play on her famous last name.<\/p>\n

\"CRANBERRY,\u00a9 Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Austin during the Pittsburgh Penguins development camp in 2019<\/p>\n

Austin Lemieux (1996)<\/p>\n

The only son of the Lemieux family, Austin was born three months premature and spent 71 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, inspiring Mario and Nathalie to found Austin\u2019s Playrooms, which provides children with playrooms on hospital wards.<\/p>\n

Following in his father\u2019s footsteps, Austin pursued a professional hockey career, playing for Arizona State and setting his sights on the Penguins. “I think anyone that plays college hockey has the NHL in mind,” he previously told the NHL<\/a>; the sportsman has since discovered a love of golf, and was pursuing it professionally as of 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"LAS\u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n

Alexa posing during the NHL Awards in 2019<\/p>\n

Alexa Lemieux (1997)<\/p>\n

The youngest of the Lemieux clan, Alexa is currently working as a Real Estate Agent in New York, according to her\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a> profile, after studying at the University of Southern California. She also previously made her film debut in the sports comedy\u00a0Odd Man Rush\u00a0(2020) alongside\u00a0Wayne Gretzky<\/a>\u2019s son Trevor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alexa revealed to the NHL<\/a> that she took acting classes alongside her degree, and had even had an acting coach as a teenager. \u201cEver since I was a little girl it’s all I wanted to do,\u201d she shared, adding that it was \u201creally special for my first film to be a hockey movie\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Lemieux \u2013 aka \u201cThe Magnificent One\u201d \u2013 spent 17 seasons dominating the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[53159,53610,3063,5,4,118,1469,100,5216,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-436886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-celebrity-children","9":"tag-celebrity-families","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-penguins","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","16":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115985945601970292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}