Sophia Phalen Bertolami is an American nurse, model, and entrepreneur best known publicly as the former girlfriend of professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau.
The two dated from around 2018 to 2020, a period that included several of DeChambeau’s early career milestones, before their relationship ended.
Since then, Sophia has continued building her own career in healthcare and modeling, including launching her swimwear line, La Isla.
Meanwhile, DeChambeau has gone on to date other women and has become one of golf’s most talked-about figures through his move to LIV Golf and his continued major championship success.
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Sophia Phalen Bertolami Biography
She was born on December 11, 1991, and raised in Massachusetts. Her parents are John Bertolami and Meg Bertolami.
Her father served as CEO of the Boston Pharmacy Management Center after studying pharmacy at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
At the same time, her mother pursued a career in healthcare, earning a nursing degree from Vanderbilt University in 1979.
Sophia Phalen Bertolami’s own path into healthcare reflects her family’s background. She graduated from Chapman University in Orange, California, in 2014 with a degree in Kinesiology and Nutrition.
She later studied pharmacology while attending nursing school at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Subsequently, she announced that she had been accepted into a residency program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, beginning that July.
Career
Sophia Phalen Bertolami built a successful career in healthcare alongside her modeling and entrepreneurial work.
She began attracting public attention as a model and Instagram personality around 2015 while she was still a nursing student at Belmont University, eventually growing a following of more than 60,000 people on the platform.
She later launched her own swimwear brand, La Isla, which features a collection of bikinis. Beyond her work as a nurse and entrepreneur, Sophia has participated in various brand partnerships connected to her modeling and social media presence.
She has also spoken openly about her love of animals, most notably as the owner of an unusually large pet pig.
One of the most distinctive and widely shared aspects of Sophia’s life is her pet pig, Stella.
Sophia adopted Stella in 2013, believing she was bringing home a micro pig. Stella did not remain small.
By the fourth anniversary of her adoption, Stella had grown to approximately 1,100 pounds, a fact Sophia has shared publicly and affectionately on social media while describing their enduring bond.
Bryson Dechambeau
Sophia Phalen Bertolami and Bryson DeChambeau began dating before the 2018 Ryder Cup, and their relationship continued through several notable moments in DeChambeau’s early career, including his appearance at the 2018 U.S. Open, which Sophia attended after traveling with him by helicopter to the tournament.
During their relationship, Sophia occasionally shared supportive messages about DeChambeau on social media, including a congratulatory post following his victory at the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, one of the most public acknowledgments of their relationship.
Before dating DeChambeau, Sophia had previously been linked to professional baseball players Danny Muno and Mike Napoli.
The relationship between Sophia and DeChambeau ended around 2020.
DeChambeau later dated Hunter Nugent, a former collegiate golfer, who publicly confirmed their breakup in 2022.
He has also been repeatedly linked to college golfer and social media personality Lilia Schneider since September 2022, although neither DeChambeau nor Schneider has publicly confirmed a romantic relationship.
As reflected in multiple reports published in 2025 and 2026, including DeChambeau’s own comments during a podcast interview, he has described himself as single.