Gabrielle Reece Bio | Wiki
Gabrielle Reece is an American professional volleyball player, sports announcer, fashion model, and actress. She is the author of My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life which was published in April 2013.
Gabrielle was prominently featured in the video game Power Spike: Pro Beach Volleyball, released in 2000 for Game Boy Color, PlayStation, and Windows, where she was both the cover model and a playable character. In the film, she acted in the sci-fi movie Gattaca (1997) and was interviewed in the documentary Riding Giants (2004).
Gabrielle Reece Age
Gabrielle was born on January 6, 1970, in La Jolla, California, United States. She is 52 years old.
Gabrielle Reece Height
She is a woman of tall stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 3 in (Approx. 1.91 m). She weighs 170 lb (Approx. 77 kg).
Gabrielle Reece Family
She was born in La Jolla, California to her parents Terry Glynn and Robert Eduardo Reece. Gabrielle grew up as an only child in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Her father, who was Trinidadian, was killed in a plane crash when Gabrielle was five.
Gabrielle Reece Husband | Laird Hamilton
Gabrielle is married to her husband big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton. The couple celebrated their wedding on November 30, 1997. Together, they have two daughters: Reece Viola Hamilton and Brody Jo Hamilton. The family also lives with Izabela, Hamilton’s daughter from his previous marriage to big wave surfer and clothing designer Maria Souza. They split time residing in Hawaii and Malibu, California.
Gabrielle Reece Education
She attended Keswick Christian School in St. Petersburg, Florida when she took up sports. Gabrielle accepted a volleyball scholarship from Florida State University, where she majored in communications, and in volleyball, she led the league in kills four times and blocks once.
She also set two school volleyball records, in solo blocks (240) and total blocks (747), both of which still stand. In 1989, she moved to New York City to pursue more rigorously a parallel career as a sports fashion model and also continue her pro volleyball career. In 1997, Florida State University inducted Reece into the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame.
Gabrielle Reece Volleyball
Following her graduation, Gabrielle played on professional volleyball tours for several years. For four consecutive years, she was the WBVL skills leader from 1993–1996. She was named the Offensive Player of the Year in 1994–95, and the League blocks leader in 1993.
Gabrielle also competed domestically in the 1999–2000 Olympic Challenge Series, the 1999–2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, and other competitions. She trained in golf for four years hoping to make it onto the LPGA but was unsuccessful.
Gabrielle Reece Model
She appeared in several Elle layouts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gabrielle has appeared on the covers of Outside, Shape, Women’s Sports & Fitness, Elle, and Life. Previously, she made a cameo appearance as herself on the HBO series Arliss in which she angrily reprimanded her agent for even suggesting she accept an offer to pose nude for Playboy.
Gabrielle Reece Book
Gabrielle published her book My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life in April 2013. She writes that “to truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and – look out, here it comes – submissive.”
Gabrielle went on to further define her point in an April 16 interview on The Today Show by saying that she believes women being submissive in relationships is a sign of strength – not weakness. “We don’t worry about (men) having it all, so I don’t know where we got this idea to have it all”. She has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss’ book Tools of Titans.
Gabrielle Reece Movies And Tv shows
Gabrielle hosted Insider Training for Fit TV/Discovery, in which she interviewed professional athletes about their training & conditioning regimens. She hosted NBC’s S.T.R.O.N.G. in 2016 and along with her husband Laird Hamilton did the series XPT: The Experience for Outside TV in 2017.
In films, Gabrielle acted in the sci-fi movie Gattaca in 1997 and was interviewed in the documentary Riding Giants. In scripted television, she guest-starred on the shows North Shore and 8 Simple Rules. Gabrielle also appeared as a guest on Extreme Makeover Home Edition and America’s Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show. In 2022, she appeared as herself in an episode of Billions.
Gabrielle Reece XPT Life
Gabrielle and Laird Hamilton are the founders of XPT Life or Extreme Performance Training. In September 2020 they brought their Laird Superfood business they founded in 2015 along with Paul Hodge to Wall Street where it is now listed under the trading id LSF. She produced an infomercial for a health and fitness product, “The Primal System” with fitness expert Paul Chek.
Gabrielle Reece Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Gabrielle’s estimated net worth is $25 million.
Who Is Gabrielle Reece
Gabrielle is an American professional volleyball player, sports announcer, fashion model, and actress. She is the author of My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life which was published in April 2013.