The LSU basketball star, who is nicknamed “Bayou Barbie” for her game-day glam, rocked a skimpy white two-piece in her debut.
Angel Reese in the Bahamas last year.“The biggest takeaway I want people to know is you can be girly off the court and still have swag and just be who you are. I mean, I embrace my body and who I am and on the court I can still ball. I am 6’3,″ I work out a lot so why not show it? I got a nice little body. When I go to the beach or go to the pool and everybody’s looking, it’s like, ‘Damn, you sexy girl,’ ” she said.
She certainly has athletic genes. Her father, Michael Reese, played college hoops at Boston College and Loyola University in Maryland., played ball at University of Maryland Baltimore County and professionally in Europe.“She never put it on me that I had to play basketball because she did, so she let me experience and do whatever I wanted to do. I just finally decided basketball was going to be my thing. I was kind of good at it, and I was really competitive.
Her confidence caught the eye of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editor-in-Chief, MJ Day, who said Reese is “combating the double standard in sports, especially for women…Her intensity, drive and passion around being unapologetically herself and speaking up for what she believes in is helping move the needle forward for women in sports and is liberating the next generation to feel seen and heard.
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