Gabriel Reese net worth
What is Gabrielle Reece’s net worth?
Gabrielle Reece is an American volleyball player, TV host, model, author and actress who has a net worth of $25 million. This is her net worth with her husband, professional surfer Laird Hamilton.
Best known for her career as a professional volleyball player, Reece also launched a successful modeling career, appearing in magazines such as ELLE, Shape, Outside, and Women’s Sports and Fitness. Gabriel also graced the cover of Playboy and was voted one of the “most beautiful women in the world” by ELLE.
Reese published the New York Times bestseller My Feet Too Big for Glass Slippers in 2013 and has written for The Los Angeles Times and The Huffington Post. As an actress, she starred in the films “Gataka” (1997), “Air Bud: Spikes Back” (2003), “Cloud 9” (2006) and in the TV series “Cybill” (1996), “Children of Chicago” (1997), “Arli$$” (1999), “North Shore” (2004), “8 Simple Rules” (2005) and “Gary’s Not Married” (2010). Gabrielle hosted the 2016 Fitness competition series “STRONG” and 2015 New York Emmy nominated Lifestyle Show: Program/Special on the “Gabrielle Reece” episode of the sports interview series “The Game 365”.
early life
Gabrielle Reece was born Gabrielle Allyse Reece on January 6, 1970 in La Jolla, California. She was the only child of Robert Eduardo Reece and Terry Glynn, who sadly died in a plane crash when Gabriel was 4 years old. At the age of 2, Reece moved to New York with family and friends and lived with them until the age of 7. She then lived with her mother and stepfather in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. When Gabriel was a teenager, the family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she attended Keswick Christian School and started playing volleyball. After high school, she attended Florida State University on a volleyball scholarship. At FSU, she majored in communications and set volleyball records in total volleyball (747) and individual volleyball (240). Gabrielle moved to New York City in 1989 to pursue a career as a professional volleyball and sports fashion model. In 1997, she was inducted into the Florida State University Track and Field Hall of Fame.
Profession
After two seasons at FSU, Reese was named Offensive Player of the Year for the 1994-1995 season, and in 1994 she became the first female athlete to design a Nike shoe and Nike’s first cross-training spokeswoman. Nike released Gabrielle’s Air Trainer in 1994, followed by the Air Patrol (1995), Air GR (1997), and Air GR II (1998), which all outsold the Air Jordan. Reese captained the Women’s Beach Volleyball League (WBVL) for several years, and in 1997, her four-man team won the Beach Volleyball World Championship. She played in the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and the Olympic 4 on 4 Challenge Series, and she later spent four years training as a golfer, but in 2009, she told Parade Magazine , “With young kids, I just don’t have time for such a demanding competition.” In 1997, Women’s Sports & Fitness included Reese on its “20 Most Powerful Women in Sports” list and was on the The cover of this issue. The magazine’s editors explained why Gabriel was chosen for the cover, writing: “I believe she finally represents the answer to all the pendulum swings in the pursuit of image over the last few decades. Who is a female athlete? She was once thought to be everything An innate contradiction. She’s strong and beautiful, sweaty and feminine, tough and ladylike.”
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Reece created the fitness program HIGHX and co-founded Extreme Performance Training XPT with husband Laird Hamilton. In 2018, the couple appeared on the outdoor TV series “XPT: The Experience.” Gabrielle has also created a TV commercial for a fitness product called The Primal System and hosted Fit TV/Discovery’s “Insider Training”. In 2008, she became the spokeswoman for Simply Nutrilite and released “Gabrielle Reece: Fit & Healthy Prenatal Workouts.” She spoke at the 2012 TEDMED conference in Washington, D.C., where she participated in the American Heart Association’s Teaching Garden to teach children about the importance of exercise and healthy eating. Reece hosted “Men’s Health Minutes” (2006) and “Power Players: Sports’ Hottest Couples” (2013) and appeared in the documentaries “Riding Giants” (2004) and “Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton” “In” (2017). She has been a guest on numerous talk shows including “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Chelsea Lately,” “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “Rachel Ray” ”, and was a guest host on “The View” in 2013. Gabriel has also appeared on “MTV Sports,” “Gabriel Reese’s Extremists,” “Gravity Games,” “Fast and Superstars: Gillette Youth Gun Masters,” “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” “Celebrity Blackjack” and “Hollywood Square.”
personal life
Gabriel married surfer Laird Hamilton on November 30, 1997 and they have two daughters, Reese (born October 2003) and Brody (born January 2008). Gabrielle is also stepmother to Izabela, Laird’s daughter from her marriage to costume designer Maria Souza. In 2015, Reece and Hamilton launched Laird Superfood, a company dedicated to providing “high-quality, convenient, delicious plant-based products that everyone can enjoy.”
real estate
In July 2011, Rees and Hamilton listed their 5,000-plus-square-foot home on Maui, Hawaii for $2.79 million. Two months later, the four-bedroom, four-bathroom home sold for $2.4 million. Built by the couple in 2004, the 9.99-acre site includes a wraparound canopy lanai that spans over 1,000 square feet. The property also features a “million gallon fish pond overlooking peaceful gardens”. The home was featured on the “MTV Crib” in 2006.
