Gabby Reece is a living volleyball legend: At Florida State University, she set school records as an attacker and then moved to California to play professional beach volleyball. She was extremely successful: In 1997, she captained her team to victory in the very first Beach Volleyball World Championship in the four-player discipline.

Anne Menke photographed Gabrielle "Gabby" Reece, born in 1970, an American sports icon, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and sought-after model, for Westlake Malibu Magazine.

But Gabby is also on the fast track as an entrepreneur: She was the first female athlete to design her own shoe in collaboration with Nike and became the first female face of their CrossFit division.

Together with her husband, big-wave surfing legend Laird Hamilton, she founded the successful brand Laird Superfood, which offers functional, plant-based foods. Furthermore, she co-founded the fitness and performance program XPT (Extreme Performance Training), which is based on the... more