Elizabeth Fogle, also identified as Elizabeth Christie and Elizabeth Christie Fogle, was Jared Fogle’s first wife. They married in 2001 and divorced in 2007.
Their shared Indiana University background is documented. However, the details of their reported college romance are less firmly established than their education and marriage. An alumni publication provides a useful starting point: it identifies Elizabeth as a 2000 graduate and describes Jared as her husband.
That record places her within the university community without requiring an invented story about their first meeting.
What Indiana University Records Confirm About Elizabeth Fogle
Indiana University’s summer 2006 biology alumni newsletter includes an entry for “Elizabeth Christie Fogle, BA’00.”
The notation identifies her as a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the class of 2000. The same entry names Jared as her husband and records her employment with St. Vincent Physician Network.
This contemporary notice matters because it appeared during their marriage. It connects Elizabeth’s maiden and married names through an institutional publication, rather than relying entirely on later celebrity biographies.
It also establishes that she had a working life outside Jared’s advertising career.
Did Elizabeth and Jared Meet at Indiana University?
Some online profiles say Elizabeth and Jared met while studying at Indiana University. Their shared university connection makes that account plausible, but the alumni notice does not explain when or how they met.
It gives no first-date story, proposal account or description of their relationship as students. No dependable firsthand account located for this article fills those gaps.
The careful distinction is straightforward: their university association is documented, while the specific circumstances of their courtship remain unconfirmed.
Calling them college sweethearts should therefore not become an invitation to invent campus encounters, shared classes or private conversations.
Their Marriage Began in 2001
Elizabeth and Jared married in 2001, around the beginning of his national visibility through Subway advertising.
By 2003, an Associated Press profile described Jared’s experiences as a recognizable advertising personality. The report identified Elizabeth as his wife and mentioned an occasion when they encountered actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon at a hotel bar.
That anecdote offers a small contemporary glimpse of their married life. It shows Elizabeth appearing in reporting about his growing public profile, although it provides little information about her own experience of that attention.
Their marriage continued for several years. Later reporting places its end in 2007, approximately six years after the wedding.
Elizabeth’s Healthcare Work Was Documented Separately
The 2003 Associated Press article described Elizabeth as a pediatric nurse. This is stronger support for that occupational description than an unsourced biography written years afterward.
The university’s 2006 alumni entry separately recorded her full-time work within a physician network serving pediatricians. Together, those sources establish a connection to pediatric healthcare during the marriage.
They do not provide a complete employment history. Nor does the university’s BA notation establish a nursing qualification, licensing history or specialist credential.
The useful conclusion is limited but concrete: contemporary reporting identified Elizabeth as a pediatric nurse, and an institutional notice documented her healthcare employment.
Neither source establishes her current occupation.
Healthcare work also forms part of the documented story of Jeremy Yaffe, Alan Arkin’s first wife, who later trained and worked as a nurse.
The Divorce Filing and Final Divorce Were Different Events
Inside Edition reported in 2015 that Elizabeth Christie had filed to dissolve the marriage in 2006. Other reporting identifies 2007 as the year the divorce was completed.
Those dates describe different stages of the process. A petition begins a divorce case; it does not necessarily mark the day a marriage legally ends.
The public timeline can therefore be summarized as follows:
| Year | Documented or reported milestone |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Indiana University records identify Elizabeth as a graduate |
| 2001 | Elizabeth and Jared married |
| 2003 | Associated Press reporting described her as a pediatric nurse |
| 2006 | Elizabeth reportedly filed for dissolution |
| 2007 | Their divorce was reported as finalized |
These dates establish the broad sequence. They do not supply a complete explanation for the relationship’s breakdown.
Elizabeth Should Not Be Confused With Jared’s Second Wife
Elizabeth’s marriage is sometimes incorrectly merged with Jared’s later relationship with Kathleen “Katie” McLaughlin.
As summarized in Jared Fogle’s personal history, he married McLaughlin in 2010. She was his wife when the criminal case became public in 2015.
Elizabeth’s marriage had already ended in 2007. Consequently, statements and divorce proceedings involving his second wife should not be attributed to her.
In November 2015, Jared received a 188-month federal prison sentence following convictions involving child sexual exploitation. That later prosecution belongs to his legal history; it does not establish Elizabeth’s knowledge, actions or reasons for ending their earlier marriage.
Elizabeth’s documented story is narrower: an Indiana University education, work in pediatric healthcare and a marriage lasting from 2001 to 2007. Those facts provide a firmer account than an embellished college-love story or speculation about her life afterward.
