What do you get when you pair up a college basketball player and an Instagram influencer?
A love story for the ages, some adorable kids, and a wildly entertaining social media sensation.
Enter The Ace Family, one of the hottest families on YouTube right now.
Now, their once-humble vlog is a full time enterprise and is growing bigger every day.
“We met at a little like party dinner thing,” he toldPower 106 Los Angeles.
“Got there, shook her hand, and she was thinking about me ever since.”
Still, they kept seeing each other and it wasn’t long before McBroom confessed his love.
“I wasn’t used to that to be honest,” said Paiz.
McBroom added, “Yo, that s*** was quick.”
Ina YouTube video, Paiz answered questions from fans.
One viewer asked how long Paiz thought their relationship was going to last when she and McBroom starteddating.
“Or that it’s going to be.
And this is the thing, this is the reason why.
It’s because when we met, every single relationship leading to that point has always ended.
“Literally, to every single extent we are meant to be.”
“And she told me that I was gonna meet Austin.
And I completely forget till everything actually happened.
And so yeah, she said I was gonna have three.”
McBroom said that he’d be good having three kids, but he did have one caveat.
“We’re not stopping until I have a little mini me,” he said.
“A little boy.”
“I’ve been working my whole life,” she said in The Ace Family’sfirst YouTube video.
“I’ve always had a job since I was like 16.
And I didn’t go to college.
I moved to China after high school and I was there for quite some time.
I came back and went straight to work.
Is Austin McBroom’s college major the reason for The Ace Family’s success?
The former college basketball player didn’t spend all of his college years on the court.
McBroom also worked hard at his classes, majoring in communication studies.
Many people expected McBroom to continue on with his promising basketball talent and turn it into a professional career.
Instead of going to the pros, though, thestar athletefound a surprising use for his education.
While their fame was unexpected, McBroom’s dad, Allen, couldn’t be happier for his son.
“He’s had more success than we could have imagined,” Allen toldThe Spokesman Review.
“And he gets to be with his family every day.”
In the video, McBroom explained why he purchased the candy for the child.
“They said that your son is racist towards black people,” McBroom said in the video.
His mom responded, “Okay, that would affect me too right?
I am black.”
McBroom’s mother called his critics “bottom feeders” and encouraged him to stay positive.
“you’ve got the option to’t focus on these people,” she said.
And you guys do that well.”
He’s got talent in other sports, too.
“I played three sports in high school,” he saidin a YouTube video.
“I played football, basketball, and baseball.
And I was pretty decent at all three.”
He ended up focusing his athletic career on basketball because it was his favorite sport of the three.
McBroom said that it was basketball that always captured his attention and his heart.
“Baseball was just too slow for me,” he said.
“And then football, I hate getting tackled.
I would just run all over the field.
… Basketball is just something I was always in love with.
Couldn’t get bored with basketball.”
He’s not the only athlete in the family, either.
Catherine Paiz also has a pretty diverse athletic resume.
The mom of two doesn’t just speak English, but is also fluent in a couple more languages.
“I speak three languages,” Paiz said ina YouTube video.
“English, French, and Spanish.”
“The only schools that were available to me were in French.
So yeah, I had to learn French.”
By the time she was in first grade, Paiz was trilingual.
“My real name isn’t Catherine,” she said ina YouTube video.
“Catherine is actually my middle name.
My first name is something else … it’s an older lady name.”
Paiz added that she was always embarrassed of her name growing up.
Paiz was named after her mother’s foster mother.
Paiz’s mom wasn’t thrilled about saddling her daughter with such an old-fashioned name.
She honored the promise, but always called her daughter by her middle name, Catherine.
We wonder what they’ll release next!
“I think there is no tough part,” Austin McBroom toldPower 106 Los Angeles.
“I think it’s all fun, because we get to just act crazy … especially me.
I’m just a crazy person.”
According to Catherine Paiz, Elle was quite the well-behaved baby.
“We honestly have a really great kid,” she said.
“She’s such a good baby.
I’ve never had a sleepless night with her.
She’s such a good baby.
She hardly ever cries.
She just never cries and it’s so easy to film.”
McBroom added, “She only cries when she wants milk.”
“It’s crazy how fast we grew.
I see ourselves as, you know, a regular family.
I wouldn’t say we’re celebs, but …
I mean, yeah, the fans see us like that.”
To the couple, making a living off of YouTube is just fun.
“It’s not pressure because it comes so natural to us,” said Paiz.
“It’s work, but it’s not really work because we’re being ourselves.”
Austin McBroom added, “We’re waking up every morning just doing what we do.”
“First of all, consistency is the No.
1 key,” Catherine Paiz toldPower 106 Los Angeles.
“Be true to yourself.”
“I think everybody, you know, sets expectations too high,” he said.
“Especially when they see a family like us.
… That’s how we were.
But people can only get like that if you start.
It takes time.”
McBroom also echoed Paiz and stressed the importance of consistency.
I think that’s the biggest thing.”
The Ace Family is worth a lot of money
The Ace Family is seriously loaded.
In 2019, they moved into a swanky new pad.
The Ace Family gave fans a tour of their home onYouTube, and it was jaw-dropping.
Catherine Paizsharedthat the house was not actuallyonemansion buttwomansions that they had remodeled to turn it into one massive mega-mansion.
In January 2020, Paiz revealed that their dream of having a little boy was coming true.
Paiz called her son “the missing puzzle piece.”
McBroom later announced onInstagramthat their baby boy,Steel McBroom, was born on June 20, 2020.
The entire event was low-key, with both of them saying they wore flip-flops to the ceremony.
“And I didn’t have the best and I wasn’t happy.”
That’s not the only legal battle the family has faced.
LiveXLive then countersued for $100 million, accusing McBroom and his company of harming them through bad publicity.
As of this writing, none of the McBrooms' legal issues appear to have been resolved.
Is The Ace Family leaving YouTube?
“So obviously, we don’t want to leave YouTube.
