The Truth About Chip & Joanna Gaines' Children

When Chip Gaines wound up in the middle of a pretty scary interaction involving his middle son, Duke, the experience solidified just how wild the "Fixer Upper" fame had become. In an interview with NBC's "Today," Chip shared that while he was at a flea market, a number of people "swarmed" around him and he ended up separated from Duke, who was walking in front of him.

"The experience of that had become a little bit normal for us, because we definitely had gotten to that position in our careers where we were recognizable in public, but in that exact second, I sort of lost contact with Duke," Chip shared. "And so I was basically on my way to kind of gobble him up and get him back into a safe place, and at about that same second, I was surrounded by this group of people."

"It was sort of a disturbing series of events, only because I realized in that moment I was incapable of communicating accurately that I was actually a desperate father trying to get my son into a safe place, but also at the same time kind of trying to resonate with these people and trying to not be rude," he explained.