At the tender age of 24, former cheerleader Jordon Hudson has garnered enough attention to last a lifetime.
Certainly, her controversial relationship with iconic NFL coachBill Belichick – who, at 73, is 49 years her senior – has sent tongues wagging.
But things were once so different for the beauty pageant queen who now has access to her boyfriend’s $70 million fortune – and all the privileges that come with it.
She grew up in Hancock, a humble town of some 2,500 just outside Arcadia National Park inMaine– and the place she will represent in the Miss Maine USA pageant this coming weekend.
There, in a quaint $121,000 home, the family struggled to make ends meet with their business, Frenchman’s Bay fisheries.
Her parents, Heath and Lee Hudson, themselves had a significant age gap, with mom Lee, now 61, being 12 years older than Jordon’s dad.
The couple spent years working on fishing boats and harvesting mussels.
Jordon Hudson proudly flaunts her fishermen family roots while traveling alongside lover Bill Belichick on a private jet
The family’s background and fishery business is featured in an archived local newsletter where her mother Lee spoke about her struggle to feed her three daughters and son
Jordon as a child with her parents at their modest family home in Maine
In a disinterred 2007 article from the now-defunct local magazine, Salt, Jordon’s mother opened up about the hardships that come with working in the fishing industry.
Black and white images alongside the article show Jordon as a small child in her family kitchen as her mother prepares dinner, and again with both her parents in what appears to be a bedroom.
Lee told the magazine that she worried about ‘feeding her three daughters and her son,’ and relied on neighbors, family and friends to bring them food while ‘fighting to keep the Frenchman’s Bay fisheries alive.’
She ‘tried her best to appear confident and cheerful’, she said, despite the fact that ‘in real life we’re going bankrupt and about to lose everything’.
The piece went on to detail the struggles of the fishing business, with Lee saying she suffers from what she calls ‘the pillow in my face syndrome’, where she wakes in the middle of the night with the feeling that she is being suffocated from stress.
‘I don’t fail well,’ she added.
Clearly, Jordon has inherited her mother’s steely determination, as evidenced by her headline-making domination of Belichick’s recent CBS interview when she insisted there should be no questions of how she and the former New England Patriots head coach had met – even though it has been well documented that it was on a plane.
Shortly after the Salt interview, the Hudsons’ boat, the Miss Daisy, sank putting pressure on the already struggling family business and ultimately forcing them to close it. Lee started working in a daycare center, while Heath took a job as a handyman.
Jordon (far left) moved to Cape Cod with her mother, siblings and mom’s boyfriend Stephen Enos when she was 9
Jordon is the daughter of Heath and Lee Hudson (pictured in 2007) but her mother moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Jordon and her siblings when she was 9, in 2010, after her parents separated
Jordon’s father Heath still lives in the modest $121,000 home in Hancock, Maine, where she spent her early life
Jordon during her cheerleading days at Nauset Regional High School
But in 2010 their marriage broke down, and Jordon, then 9, was shipped off to Provincetown, Massachusetts – at the very tip of Cape Cod – with her mother and siblings.
Lee soon struck up a relationship with her childhood sweetheart Stephen Enos, though the Daily Mail was unable to locate any records showing a divorce from Heath.
Jordon went to nearby Nauset Regional High School, where she started cheerleading for the school’s Warriors, and from there to Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.
Before hooking up with Belichick, she had a relationship with healthcare executive Joshua Zuckerman, now 64, who has defended her current relationship.
‘She is wise beyond her years, much more than any 20-something I’ve ever met in my life,’ Zuckerman told TMZ last year. ‘The narrative about her character is not fair to her.
‘I have been involved with Jordon platonically and romantically and I consider her a good friend. I feel bad that she’s caught up in this whirlwind.’
Sources say Hudson still has a close relationship with her father, and regularly returns to Hancock.
Since revealing she was running for Miss Maine USA representing the town, she’s been flooding her social media with pictures from her childhood.
And she still trumpets her support for her family’s fishing roots.
In an open letter to the White House in March, she issued a ‘plea’ to President Donald Trump, asking him to reconsider the recent decision to cut the federally funded Maine Sea Grant.
She said that when the news that the grant – which supports the sponsorship of scientific research into Maine’s marine life, and helps those who depend on the local coastline – had been cut ‘came like a tsunami.’
Jordon has moved far from her teenage years in Provincetown, Massachusetts, now having a property portfolio worth at least $9 million
Jordon herself has been very open about her pride in her family’s background and business and was seen publicly advocating for the industry at the 50th Maine Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport in March
Then, during the Super Bowl weekend in February, Hudson was seen in a blue sequin dress with a coral reef design and carrying a lobster bag emblazoned with a slogan that read ‘Save Maine Fishermen’.
She told People magazine at the time: ‘I have a message that pays homage to my family and a message that I’d like to put out there and give a little bit of recognition to the fishermen in Maine.
‘They need help, and hopefully through fashion, we can bring awareness to the fact that fishermen and lobstermen in Maine are struggling.’
When approached by the Daily Mail, Jordon’s father Heath said he ‘wasn’t interested’ in talking about his daughter’s relationship.
Nonetheless, it is believed that Jordon brought Belichick home with her to meet the family on at least one occasion while attending the 50th Maine Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport in March.
Jordon Hudson has been seen flaunting an extravagant lifestyle on social media since she began dating legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick who is said to be worth around $70million
On Instagram she has claimed she was ‘practically born on the waters of Hancock Point, Maine’ just like her father and his ancestors ‘since before the American Revolutionary War’, sharing baby pictures of herself on fishing boats
Meanwhile, mom Lee, who has been described as being an ‘open-minded’ parent by friends, is now the business manager at Toys of Eros, a Provincetown store that sells lingerie, sex toys, erotic books and even boasts its own sex museum.
Sources say that Lee is very close to her daughter and supports Jordon’s relationship with a much-older lover.
As the Daily Mail reported last week, Jordon has amassed a $9million property portfolio since starting up her relationship with Belichick.
She has snapped up at least four properties, including one worth $3million, which were all purchased after they met in 2021.
Even more impressively, public records reveal Belichick’s girlfriend has already paid off the mortgages on all of these homes.
She has also registered 18 companies – several with names such as ‘Do Your Job (Bill’s Version)’ and ‘Ignore the Noise (Bill’s Version)’ that suggest she has some control over her boyfriend’s affairs.
Lee has been described as being an ‘open-minded’ parent, who is currently the business manager at Provincetown sex shop, Toys of Eros
Jordon regularly spends time in her hometown and is even thought to have brought Belichick home with her on at least one occasion
In an apparent nod to New England and her family background, the two even dressed up as a fisherman and a mermaid for Halloween last year
Hudson spent her first nine years in Hancock, Maine, which now has a population of around 2,500 and is just outside Acadia National Park
Jordon has also managed to secure the services of a high-end wealth manager whose firm requires its clients to have at least $2million in assets.
For his part, the legendary NFL coach Belichick refers to Hudson as his ‘idea mill and creative muse’ in his forthcoming memoir, which is out in May.
Indeed, Hudson’s central role in Belichick’s life became a topic of national conversation last month after she interrupted that CBS interview to shut down questions about how they met.
‘We’re not talking about this’, she said, even though the reported story of the pair meeting on an aeroplane appears to be innocuous.
Hudson is said to have stormed out of the interview for 30 minutes and delayed filming.
Friends of Belichick have reportedly raised concerns that the relationship is a ‘runaway train’ and claim Hudson ‘saw an opening and took it’ with him.
One thing’s for certain: she’s a long way from her humble Hancock, Maine upbringing now.