Melia McEnery Bio, Age, Wiki, Parents【 Eric Clapton Wife 】Photos

Personal Information Summary
Name	Melia McEnery
Sister	Not Known
Siblings	She has five siblings.
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	February 1, 1976. As of 2024, she is around 48 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Boyfriend / Dating	Married to music legend Eric Clapton. There is a 31-year age gap between the two.
What college did Melia McEnery attend?	Melia completed her secondary education at Bishop Watterson High School.
Children / No. of Kids	3
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	Mixed (Korean-Irish-Scottish)
Nationality	American

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Melia McEnery, who has previously worked as an assistant for Armani, is more well-known as the wife of legendary musician Eric Clapton.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Melia was born on February 1, 1976, in Columbus, Ohio.
Melia McEnery Parents : She was an only child of a father who worked in the construction industry & a stay-at-home mother. Currently, her parents continue to live in Ohio.
Her high school teachers went on to enter her into many state-level art competitions, which she mostly won, but her father was hesitant about how she would make a living out of this talent. Her mother, however, encouraged her to pursue it.

Her mother is of Korean-Irish heritage, while her father is of Scottish-English heritage, giving Melia her distinct look.

Early Career and Education :

After graduating from university with a Bachelor’s degree in art, Melia left Ohio & headed to California.

She worked odd jobs in the design industry for around two years before landing an assistant job in the design department for Armani.
Her duties included planning and hosting events, couriering designs to work sites & general administration jobs.
As of 2019, she sits on the board of many children’s charities and works as a Senior Clinical Advisor for Crossroads Centre Antigua. Crossroads is a treatment center that was founded by her husband & treats both drugs and alcohol issues. It operates on a semi-private island in West Indies.

Eric Clapton and Melia Mcenery Dating :

The couple met in 1999 when Clapton attended a party that McEnery had planned for her bosses at Armani. She was under strict instructions that night not to interact with the guests. However, she couldn’t resist asking Clapton for an autograph for her uncle.
Clapton, who had a reputation as a womanizer, has said that from the first moment he met her – there was something about her that made him want to act like a gentleman.

The two went on a date shortly after and then began dating.
They were happy together for a year, but they reportedly broke up on their first anniversary due to the stresses of Clapton’s career.

Marriage and Children :

In late 2000, it was announced that not only were the couple back together but that they were expecting a baby!
On New Year’s Day of 2002, they invited friends and family to partake in the baptism of daughter Sophie Rose, at the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene in Ridley, England.
Right when the guests believed the baptism to be finished, Clapton and McEnery stepped forward and announced that they would also be getting married on that same day.

As of 2018, they have three children together: Julie Rose Clapton (born in 2001) ; Ella May Clapton (born in 2003) & Sophie Belle Clapton (born in 2005)