- Sasha Dindayal is a Trinidadian-Canadian model, singer, actress, and wife of NFL player Antonio Gates
- She was engaged to her husband’s former teammate, Mercullus Wiley while Antonio had relationships with Lauren Lee and Tasha White
- The mother of 2 cum stepmother of 2 of Antonio’s older children has been in the entertainment industry since the late 1990s
Sasha Dindayal, also known as Sasha Gates is Antonio Gates’ wife of 13 years. While her fame may be attached to her husband’s career as a 3x First-team All-Pro NFL player with a playing career with San Diego and Los Angeles Chargers, she has a thriving career in different sectors. She is a former Trinidadian-Canadian model, actress, and reality TV star known for WAGS.
She is most notable for her works such as My Father’s Hands (1999), All Things Fair (1999), and Kinky (2018).
Life of Sasha Before Fame
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Sasha Dindayal was born in Canada by Trinidadian parents, Bernadette Philbert (mother) and a father, Keith Dindayal.
While most details about her family may be sketchy, her uncle, Ian Atherly, is the former Mayor of San Fernando.
She grew up in California, a State that is more than 2,000 miles away from Detroit – a town where her husband Antonio Gates was born on June 18, 1989, and also lived his earliest life.
She Started Her Rise to Fame in the Late 1990s Long Before She Met Antonio
Dindayal has been in the entertainment industry since the 1990s as a model, actress, and video vixen.
As a model, one of her most renowned works is appearing on the cover of Smooth Girl. She was also named as the XXL’s Eye Candy of the Month in August 2001. Although she may have had several other modeling gigs, she later left the career to focus on other things.
Still, in relation to her career and rise to fame away from her spouse, Sasha served as an accomplished video vixen. She featured in David Banner’s music video, Play. She also appeared in Choclair’s Rubbin.
In 1999, she featured in a film, My Father’s Hands where she played Melissa. The same year, she also played Leila in All Things Fare.
In 2000, she served as a judge in Soul Food.
Even after meeting her husband, she continued with her acting career. In 2018, she acted as Kelly in Kinky.
More to her career, she is a reality TV star WAGS LA (2015-16). She has also appeared in several other TV series such as Gardens Poker Night (2018), 4 the Love Sessions (2017), Home & Family (2016), and Hollywood Today Live (2016).
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Sasha Dindayal was Allegedly Married and Was Engaged Before She Met Antonio Gates
According to a report, Dindayal was married to a man named Joe, an ex-boyfriend of Terrell Owens’ publicist, Kita.
While the details of the said marriage are not known, she was engaged to former NFL player Marcellus Wiley who also played for San Diego Chargers, the same team Anotonio had played for.
In the same vein, her spouse, Gates dated several other women before Sasha. One among them includes a reported woman named Elizabeth Patterson. The relationship lasted a while before it was called off due to her psychotic episodes and was also suicidal.
How She Met and Became Married to Antonio Gates
Sasha Dindayal met her husband Antonio Gates at a hotel bar in Los Angeles. The 2 soon became lovers and Antonio invited her to his hometown in Detroit where he proposed.
The celebrities became married on July 9, 2011, at an outdoor event.
3 years after they became married, the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Ayla in February 2014. In 2015, they welcomed another child, a son named Aven.
This would add to the number of Antonio’s 2 children to make him a father of 4 children.
His first child, Antonio Gates Jr. is a college American football player who was born in his relationship with Tasha White.
The other child, a daughter was born in his relationship with Lauren Lee, a CNN producer.
Sasha Dindayal has led many years of her life in the entertainment industry. Yet, she is one of the many celebrities whose spouse’s fame may have contributed to their being famous. While she still thrives in her career, her marriage to Antonio Gates is one of the 20-40% of NFL marriage to celebrity marriages in America to last long, per Bleachers’ Report; and one has scaled the 40% celebrity relationships to scale the first 10 years without a divorce.
