Ellen Rucker Wiki, Bio(Vince Carter’s Wife)Age & More

Ellen RuckerEllen Rucker is a famous American lady who served as a chiropractic medicine doctor and she also an entrepreneur. Although she is a popular American doctor yet she is best known for her married life. Ellen is the wife of Vince Carter who is a famous American Basketball player.


Ellen Rucker was born in 1977 in Lancaster, South Carolina, the United States, she is the daughter of Douglas and his wife Ruby Rucker. She was born in a doctor’s family her father Douglas was also a doctor and her mother Ruby is a homemaker.

Ellen grew up with her two siblings, she has a sister named Ruby Rucker Cooper and has a brother named Rucker Jamison. She is very closed to her sister Copper and her brother is very supportive like her father.

She was a very bright student and at a very early age, she decided to become a doctor like her father. She studied at a local high school in Lancaster and later she went to the University of North Carolina where she earns her medical degree and become a chiropractic medicine doctor.


After completing her medical study at the University of North Carolina, she started practicing as a doctor of chiropractic medicine. After spending 11 years in the medical line she decided to become an entrepreneur.  After that, she launched her own brand Rucker Roots.

chiropractic medicine is a brand that makes good quality hair care products.  She making a website named RuckerRoots.com where she sells her hair care products. For the promotion of her hair products, she creates an Instagram page on her brand’s name where she promotes her products.

Although she is a popular doctor and also a successful entrepreneur yet she is best known for being the wife of famous basketball player Vince Carter.  He was born on 26 January 1977 in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. He was studied at Mainland High School, at that he played football but after a wrist injury she left the football and started playing Volleyball.

At that time he was named as the player of the year as a junior of Volusia Country. After that, he was offered a scholarship by Saxophone to attend Bethune Cookman University where he started playing Basketball. He led the Mainland Basketball team for the first-class 6A state title.

After that, He played three seasons of college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels under Dean smith during he was studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His professional basketball career started in 1998 when he was drafted by the Golden State Warriors.

In august of 2001, he signs a contract of $94 million for the 6 years extension, but he missed the 2001-02 season for his knee injury. At the end of 2001, he recorded 42 points and 15 rebounds against the American professional basketball team Denver Nuggets.

At the end of 2004, he was acquired by the New Jersey Net, Vince playing 5 seasons for the team and in 2009 he left the team. After leaving the New Jersey Net he joins the Orlando Magic in June of 2009 where he played 1 season and then he joined the Phoenix Suns on 18 December 2010.

For the Phoenix Suns, he recorded 29n points and 12 rebounds against the New York Knicks and won the match by 129-121 points. Then he left the Phoenix Suns and join the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, he signs a three-year contract with the team.

After complete the three years contract with Dallas Mavericks, in 2014  he signs a multi-year contract with Memphis Grizzlies. He spends his three years basketball career with the Memphis Grizzlies basketball team. After that, he gets an $ 8 million contract offer for one year by the Sacramento Kings. After playing one year for the Memphis Grizzlies he sings a new contract with Atlanta Hawks on 24 august 2018.

Apart from his club basketball career he also has a good career in National Basketball,  in FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup he playing for the United States men’s national under-19 team which is held in Athens, Greece. He also playing for the united state 2000 summer Olympics team when they win a gold medal.

His fans have a memorable moment in the 2000 summer Olympics when he Jumped over 7 fit 2 inches. In the 2003 FIBA Americas Tournament, he replaced the famous American basketball player Bobe Bryant due to his shoulder and knee injury.

Ellen Rucker Husband

Ellen Rucker is the wife of Vince Carter who is a famous American professional basketball player.  After dating for one year with her boyfriend Vince the couple decided to get married and in 2014 they tied the knot. Their lovely married life was blessed with a beautiful daughter named Kai Michelle Carter.

But unfortunately, their married life was not gone for last long, only after the two years of their marriage, they decided to separate. Their divorce was finalized at the end of 2006. After a long time of her divorce from Vince, She met Bakari Sellers and after spending some time with Bakari she started dating him.

He is a politician and Vice-chairman of the Carolina Democratic Party, at the beginning of 2015 he proposed to her for marriage, and the couple got married in the middle of 2015.  After the marriage, she gave birth to a twins daughter named Stokley and Sadie. The couple happily lives with their twin’s daughter in South Carolina.

Ellen Rucker Age

Celebrities fans are always curious about know how old they are, in this case, people are curious to know the Age of Ellen Rucker. According to the source, She celebrates her birthday party on 1 July and she was born in 1977 which means the lady is 44 years old this year.

Ellen Rucker Height

Celebrities fans are always curious about knowing their physical appearance in this case fans are curious to know about the height of Ellen Rucker. She is a tall girl and Ellen stands at 5 feet 3-inch which is also equivalent to 161 centimeters.

Ellen Rucker Net Worth

As a chiropractic medicine doctor she earns a considerable amount of money, she also earns a good amount of wealth as an entrepreneur by selling her hair care product. During her divorce from her ex-husband Vince Carter, she also gets a huge amount of wealth. Including the property and asset she has and she gets from her ex-husband Ellen Rucker’s estimated Net Worth is around $ 800k.

5 Facts About Ellen Rucker That Might Surprise You!

  1. On 19 May 2020, a book named My Vanishing Country was launched by her ex-husband Vince Carter.
  2. Her ex-husband Carter plying football during he was studying in the Mainland High School.
  3. She has a beautiful daughter with her ex-husband Vince and even after the divorce they both take care of their daughter.
  4. Her present husband Bakari Seller is a politician and also the Vice-chairman of the Carolina Democratic Party.
  5.  In an interview, she told that her present husband Seller supporting her to establish her business.