NFL star's rumored girlfriend reflects on 'pretty hard month' as QB's future comes into question

Model Olivia Ponton, Cincinnati Bengals backmost Joe Burrow’s rumored girlfriend, reflected connected her twelvemonth connected societal media successful a two-day Q&A league with her followers.

Ponton was asked astir the "most hard clip of 2025." She pointed to the period of October arsenic being rather hard for her. At the aforesaid time, Burrow was rehabbing a turf toed wounded that kept him sidelined until the Bengals’ Thanksgiving nighttime crippled against the Baltimore Ravens.

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Olivia Ponton attends Breitling's NFL concern solemnisation successful New York City connected Aug. 27, 2025 successful New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

"October was a beauteous hard period for maine but thankfully I got this miss adjacent to me," she wrote successful effect to the question.

After Burrow returned, helium made immoderate concerning comments astir his future. The erstwhile LSU standout was asked whether his latest wounded changed the mode helium viewed the game.

"It surely doesn’t alteration my tendency to win. If I wanna support doing this, I person to person amusive doing it," helium said. "I’ve been done a batch and if it’s not fun, what americium I doing it for? So, that’s the mindset I’m trying to bring to the table."

Burrow added that his mindset present was based connected a reflection astir his career.

"I’m not definite determination was a singular infinitesimal oregon time," helium said. "It’s reflection connected a batch of things that I’ve done and been done successful my career. I deliberation I’ve been done much than astir and it’s surely not casual connected the encephalon oregon the body. So, conscionable trying to person amusive doing it again."

Cincinnati Bengals backmost Joe Burrow speaks during a quality league aft an NFL shot crippled against the Baltimore Ravens, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, successful Baltimore. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo)

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He besides mentioned determination were "a batch of things" going connected successful his idiosyncratic and nonrecreational life, but didn’t elaborate further.

Still, Ponton suggested she was keeping a level head.

"2025 was a twelvemonth of focusing connected stableness and consistency successful 2026," she wrote. "I privation to question to a fewer caller countries connected my bucket list."

Olivia Ponton is seen astatine Day 13 of the 2025 US Open Tennis Championships astatine USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center connected Sept. 5, 2025 successful Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City. (XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

Ponton made wide she didn’t person immoderate superstitions but planned to spell into the New Year connected a steadfast note.

"I wouldn’t accidental superstitions but I emotion starting the twelvemonth disconnected connected a affirmative enactment successful immoderate benignant of ‘challenge’ for myself to implicit that mode I tin bring steadfast habits into (2026)," she added.

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Ponton and Burrow were linked arsenic an point successful December 2024 arsenic she was the 1 who reported the break-in astatine the quarterback’s home. She ne'er spoke publically astir the incident.

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