Exclusive | Katherine Webb is making a comeback after complicated rise to fame

Katherine Webb said it’s time for her to “get back out there” after nearly a dozen years out of the spotlight.The model, who’s married to former NFL quarterback AJ McCarron, has no regrets about taking a hiatus years after the 2013 BCS Championship Game, a 42-14 demolition of Notre Dame by McCarron’s Alabama and the night her life changed completely.The former Miss Alabama 2012 nearly broke the internet when ESPN cameras captured her sitting in the stands with McCarron’s mother, Dee Dee Bonner — as Brent Musburger, a former ESPN sportscaster, gushed over her stunning looks.on the broadcast.That moment turned her into a household name and she launched a successful modeling career.Webb, now 35, stepped away to start a family with McCarron — but also because of false narratives that inaccurately painted her as a gold digger and a narcissist, she said in a wide-ranging interview with The Post.“That’s part of the reason why I stepped back a little bit as well, is that social media and the news at that point in time was quite a bit.I think I was one of the the top five most Googled people that year,” said Webb, who recently signed joined Collab, a marketing agency, for representation.

“My personality and how I live… I’m very positive.I’m not dramatic.

I try to stay away from negative things.So unfortunately… a lot of negative things were written.

And I was like, I don’t like that people think these things about me just because I’m not that way in real life.So I shied away from a lot of different things after that point just because I didn’t like how I was being portrayed then.

I just I stayed out of the spotlight in a way.”Musburger’s introduction of Webb was overtly filled with compliments on the ESPN broadcast back in 2013.“When you’re a quarterback at Alabama — you see that lovely lady there? She does go to Auburn but she also is Miss Alabama and that’s A.J.

McCarron’s girlfriend, OK,” Musburger said.“… Wo...