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Gabrielle Reece
Born	January 6, 1970 (1970-01-06) (age 38) La Jolla, California, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Other names	Gabby
Occupation	Volleyball player, Fashion model
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg/11 st)
Spouse	Laird Hamilton
Children	Reece Viola Hamilton (b. 2003) Brody Jo Hamilton (b. 2008)

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Early Life

Reece was born in La Jolla, California to a Long Island NY mother and a Trinidadian father that died when she was five. Her height comes from her mother. She was raised in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and returned to the U.S. in eleventh grade. One of the beaches at La Jolla Cove. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Map of U.S. Virgin Islands Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea, a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. ...

Reece didn't take up sports until then (11th grade) when she and her mother moved to St.Petersburg, Florida. Many colleges started recruiting her due to her abilities in sports. She accepted a volleyball scholarship from Florida State University (FSU) where she majored in communications and led the league in kills four times and blocks once. In 1989, she took off to model in New York. She returned for six weeks that summer to take classes, then returned to New York for more modeling. In August, she was back on campus for the season. It meant turning down five-figure jobs to earn All-Tournament honors several times in her collegiate career. In 1997, she was selected for induction into the Florida State University Athletic Hall of Fame. Reece set two school volleyball records in solo blocks (240) and total blocks (747). Both records still stand. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... This article is about scholarship (noun) and scholarship as a form of financial aid. ... Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[8] is a public research university located in Tallahassee. ... Major is a military rank the use of which varies according to country. ... For other uses, see Communication (disambiguation). ... A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... This article is about the state. ...

Volleyball career

Since graduation, Reece has played on professional volleyball tours. FSU inducted Reece into the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997. Reece set two still standing school volleyball records in solo blocks (240) and total blocks (747).

In 1997, competing with the best global beach volleyball players ever assembled, Reece's 4-person team took first place at the first-ever Beach Volleyball World Championships staged at the UCLA Tennis Center. A Florida State star turned pro, 1997 was Reece's fifth season as a team captain in the 4-person Women's Beach Volleyball League (WBVL), and her fourth captaining Team Nike, which shared League Co-Championship.

For four consecutive years, Reece was the WBVL kills leader from 1993-1996. She was named the Offensive Player of the Year in 1994-95, and the League blocks leader in 1993. She also competed domestically in the 1999-2000 Olympic Challenge Series, the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, and other competitions.

Modeling career

Reece began her modeling career while attending FSU. In 1989 she was named by ELLE magazine as one of the five most beautiful Women in the World. Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... ELLE is a worldwide magazine that focuses on womens fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. ...

Reece has appeared on the covers of several magazines including Shape, Women's Sports & Fitness, Outside, ELLE, and Life, Travel & Leisure Golf, Women's Sports & Fitness, Vogue, People and many other. She also appeared on the cover of Playboy, with an accompanying nude pictorial, in January 2001.^[1][2] Ironically, when appearing as herself the year before on the HBO series Arliss, she angrily chastised her agent for bringing her an offer to pose nude for Playboy. A cover of Shape, featuring Marisa Miller. ... Outside is a magazine focused on the outdoors. ... ELLE is a worldwide magazine that focuses on womens fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ... For other meanings, see vogue. ... For other uses, see Playboy (disambiguation). ...

Other work

Reece's book Big Girl in the Middle

Reece co-wrote a book with Karen Karbo about her life as a pro athlete entitled "Big Girl in the Middle," published by Crown (1997). She also wrote a column for Conde Nast's magazine Women's Sports & Fitness, and has been a contributing editor at ELLE magazine.

Reece can be seen featured on TV every year as a host on ESPN and NBC's "Gravity Games," where she participated in the daredevil sports of road-luging, white water kayaking, drag racing, surfing, sky diving, and more on "MTV Sports" (1993-95), and "The Extremists with Gabrielle Reece" (1995-96). She was also a commentator at the 1998 Goodwill Games. ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... This article is about the television network. ... Gravity Games is a multi-sport competition, broken down into Winter and Summer versions, which feature a variety of extreme sports such as skateboarding and BMX freestyle (during the summer) and snowboarding (during the winter). ... Sea Kayaking at Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. ... Top Fuel dragster Drag racing is a sport in which cars race down a track with a set distance as fast as possible. ... Skydiver about to land Parachuting, or skydiving, is a recreational activity, competitive sport and method of deployment of military personnel (and occasionally, firefighters). ...

Reece recently reunited with Nike as a spokesperson and she is a new expert and writer for Yahoo-Health. Reece is also a producer of a health & fitness product; "The Primal System" with fitness expert Paul Chek and can be seen hosting a show for Fit Tv/Discovery, ‘Insider Training' where she profiles professional athletes about their training & conditioning regimens. Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

In film, Reece played the supporting role of a physical trainer in the film Gattaca (1997) and a pro beach volleyball player in 'Cloud Nine' with Bert Reynolds (2004). She has also guest starred on the television shows 'North Shore' (2004) and '8 Simple Rules' on ABC (2005), and has appeared as a guest on Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an ABC reality television series that began broadcasting in 2003 in which a familys house, including all rooms, exterior and landscaping, is made over by a team of builders and designers in seven days. ...

In 2007, Reece, along with her husband Laird Hamilton, appeared in the ABC reality television series Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, featuring a dozen celebrities in a stock car racing competition. In the first round of competition, Reece matched up against former NFL coach Bill Cowher and actor William Shatner. Laird pictured at a protest in Malibu against a proposed plant that was to be built in the area, which would affect the quality of the water. ... // This article is about the genre of TV shows. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... William Laird Cowher (born May 8, 1957) is a former American football coach and player. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. ...

In 2008, she released "Gabrielle Reece: Fit & Healthy Prenatal Workouts" with exercise guru Mike Monroe to bring expectant moms a safe and effective workout regimen for the first 6 months of pregnancy.

For 2008, Reece is the spoksperson for Simply Nutrilite, a line developed by Quixtar.

Personal life

On November 30, 1997, Reece married Hawaiian big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton. They have two children together: daughters Reece Viola Hamilton (born in October 2003) and Brody Jo Hamilton (born January 1, 2008 in Hawaii). She weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces (3,690 g). ^[3] is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... For other uses, see Surfing (disambiguation). ... Laird pictured at a protest in Malibu against a proposed plant that was to be built in the area, which would affect the quality of the water. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...

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External links

• GoToGabby.com official site
• Gabrielle Reece at the Internet Movie Database