Maybe not much of you knew
Gabrielle Reece, because she already retired from volleyball for more than a decade. But back then, she was one of the sexiest athletes alive.
Gabby Reece was known as Women's Beach Volleyball League (WBVL) kills leader from 1993-1996. She also competed domestically in the 1999-2000 Olympic Challenge Series, the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, and other competitions.
But as good as she was as an athlete,
Gabrielle Reece will forever be remembered for her beauty, fat-less body, and her magnificent flat abs. A lot of magazines were using
Gabrielle Reece for their covers. She also appeared in our favorite "bunny" magazine once, where she bared all of her fabulous body.
Gabrielle Reece was born on January 6, 1970. She is 6'3" tall (1.91 m) with great physical strength, that you can compared her with Amazon women. In her recent years after retirement, she share some tips on how to build physical fitness and beauty on her website,
Honeyline.
Gabrielle Reece is also a mother of two daughters. She married the Hawaiian big-wave surfer
Laird Hamilton on November 30, 1997. They have two children together:
Reece Viola Hamilton (born in October 2003) and
Brody Jo Hamilton (born on January 1, 2008 in Hawaii).
In 1989, she moved to New York City to pursue more rigorously a parallel career as a sports fashion model and also continue in her pro volleyball 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 of which still stand. FSU inducted Reece into the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997.
She trained hard to hone her skills in 2-person beach volleyball and competed domestically in the 1999-2000 Olympic Challenge Series and the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. In 1997, competing with the best global beach volleyball players ever assembled, Gabby’s 4-person team took first place at the first-ever Beach Volleyball World Championships.
She also appeared as a guest on Extreme Makeover Home Edition and America's Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show. In 2007, Reece and 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, she matched up against the former NFL coach Bill Cowher and the actor William Shatner.
