Who Is Elin Nordegren, Otherwise Known as Mrs. Tiger Woods?

A beautiful blonde Swedish model named Elin Nordegren married Tiger Woods, stood quietly by his side at golf tournaments and gave birth to his two children, while trying to remain out of the spotlight.

Now Nordegren is being thrust into the public eye after her husband crashed his car in their front yard, as speculation runs rampant as to what happened in the early morning on Friday, Nov. 27.

But what do we know about Mrs. Woods? The Daily Beast looks into Elin.

Her parents divorced when she was 6: Thomas Nordegren and Barbro Holmberg split in 1986.

She modeled but didn't make a career out of it: In her native Sweden, Nordegren modeled some. "She wasn't a high-profile model," a source from a New York-based agency explained to the Daily Beast.

After college, she became a nanny: Elin worked for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik. It was through him she would meet her future husband.

Elin and Tiger met in 2001, at the British Open: He asked her out through a friend, which didn't sit well with Nordegren. "Her reaction was, 'What the hell was that?' She thought it was so weird and pathetic. Of course she said no," a friend of the Parneviks told Sports Illustrated.

Tiger persisted and would eventually win her over: Woods kept calling the Parneviks to convince Nordegren to go out with him and she finally said yes.

They found out they had a lot in common: She played sports and knew a lot about golf. "She was also conservative by nature, like him," a golf-industry source told the Daily Beast.

They married in a lavish 2004 ceremony: Their wedding and reception reportedly cost a cool $1.4 million.

She seemed like the perfect athlete's wife: "You could point to a thousand candidates for a professional athlete to choose from for a wife and she was maybe No. 1," the golf-industry source added.

They couple appeared to be fine: "I can only speak from their public appearances and very few private ones, but they seemed not to have any kind of conflict. What we think happened probably did, but there was no evidence of it. This wasn't like Dennis Rodman, who lived out his hostile relationships in the press," the golf-industry source said.

She doesn't speak to her father anymore: "I haven't spoken to her in the last few ... I don't want to go into that," Thomas Nordegren told the Associated Press in Sweden.

Her mother refuses to comment on the situation as well: "She doesn't want to comment on private issues like these," Barbro Holmberg's spokesperson said.