Gabrielle Reece

Gabrielle Reece, born on January 6, 1970, is an American former volleyball player and sports commentator. In this article, we will focus on various details of the Recce, including her birth details, early life, career, married life, etc.

About Gabrielle Reece

Gabrielle was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands and has done many cool things in her life. Notably, she played volleyball as it was her main profession. She also talked about sports on TV, did some modeling for fashion, and hosted a podcast as well. She is a talented girl, and she loves to do different things that she loves.

Early Life

When she was a kid, she lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands with her parents, Terry Glynn and Robert Eduardo Reece. She was their only child. Her dad, who was from Trinidad, died in a plane crash when she was only five years old. Later on, she moved to Florida for her schooling and started playing sports in the eleventh grade. After that, in 1989, she moved to New York City to become a professional model and continue playing volleyball.

After she finished schooling, she played volleyball on professionally on a high level for different teams for many years. She also tried to become a pro golfer for four years. In 2009, she explained that it was too difficult to do so with her young children.

Married Life

She was in love with a famous surfer named Laird Hamilton. They had been dating for a long time, and then she decided to marry. She married him on 30 Nov 1997, and it was a great and happy moment in her life. After approx. 1 year, she gave birth to two daughters.

It was the second marriage for the Laird; he divorced his first wife due to some personal issues. But after meeting with Recce, everything was sorted, and both of them lived happy lives. She also takes care of Laird's daughter from his earlier marriage to someone named Maria Souza. The whole family often splits their time between Hawaii and a charming place called Malibu in California. They like living in these places because they can work on their careers and enjoy an active life outdoors.

Important Works

In 2022, she was on a TV show named "Billions", where she played herself.

In a book she wrote in April 2013, called "My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life", she talked about what it means to be a real woman. She said that being a true woman means being gentle, open to others, and sometimes even letting someone else take the lead. She explained this idea more on a TV show called "The Today Show" on April 16. She thinks that women being open and letting their partners lead in a relationship shows strength, not weakness. She also mentioned that women don't have to do everything, just like men don't have to do everything.

Modeling Career

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she appeared in fancy fashion magazines and made a big impact. She looked pretty on the covers of magazines like Elle, Outside, Shape, Women's Sports & Fitness, Playboy, and Life. People loved her style and charm, and she became well-known in the fashion and lifestyle world back then.

Other Details

When she was 5 years old, her dad died in a plane crash. She loved his dad very much. Later, she got a tattoo of a silver cross on her right ankle to remember him. She grew up in the Virgin Islands but moved to Florida with her mom when she was in high school.

In 1994, she was the first female athlete to design a shoe for a popular shoe manufacturer, Nike. In 1997, her team won the first Beach Volleyball World Championships.

She has been on the covers of famous magazines like Sports Illustrated for Women, Travel & Leisure Golf, Elle, Shape, Self, Playboy, and Harper's Bazaar.

She helps the American Heart Association's Teaching Gardens program, which teaches kids about being fit and eating well to fight childhood obesity. She also has her own line of health and fitness products.

Gabrielle Reece was presented in a video game called "Power Spike: Pro Beach Volleyball" in 2000. The game was available on Game Boy Color, PlayStation, and Windows. She was on the cover of the game and also as a character you could play with.

Gabrielle Reece also made a TV commercial for a health and fitness product called "The Primal System" with a fitness expert named Paul Chek. She hosted a show called Insider Training on Fit TV/Discovery, where she talked to pro athletes about how they trained.

Social Media Presence

Gabrielle Reece knows the importance of social media platforms in the present era, and hence she uses these platforms as a tool to communicate with audiences around the world. She uses these platforms to share her thoughts, and daily routine and even promote her products. Apart from these, she is also associated with other major brands and sponsors who pay her a good amount of money to promote their products.

Notably, he is active on all three major social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. She has more than 108K followers on Facebook, more than 238K followers on Instagram, and more than 29.8K followers on Twitter. She also has her own YouTube channel where she has uploaded more than 176 videos so far and has gained more than 3 thousand subscribers. This also increases her total income through advertising commission.