The Untold Truth Of Kurt Warner

Like her husband, Brenda Warner's life can be made into a movie. In an interview with CBN to promote her autobiography — "One Call Away: Answering Life's Challenges with Unshakable Faith" — Brenda described how she has maintained a relationship with God in the face of trials and tragedy. "Circumstances don't determine who you are, and they are not a measure of God's love for you," she said.

Brenda was born and raised in a small town in Iowa. She enlisted into the Marines after graduating high school, and it was there where she met her first husband, Neil. The couple had a son named Zack, but at four months old, Neil accidentally dropped his son while picking him up out of the bathtub. The young baby hit his head, and it began to swell. At the hospital, Brenda learned her son had special needs that would be with him for the rest of his life.

While pregnant with their second child, Neil left Brenda for another woman. According to Risen Magazine, Brenda moved back with her parents and began to go to nursing school. A year later, at a country and Western bar her mother pushed her into going to, she met Kurt. The next morning, the future NFL star came to her home wanting to meet his future stepsons. Just as life began to turn for Brenda, in April 1996, her parents were killed when a tornado hit their small Arkansas town.