Angel Reese Is Vogue’s April 2026 Digital Cover Star
Angel Reese wears St. Agni tank prime and Bulgari ring.
“It’s crazy,” Reese says of the perspective shift. “I see celebrities courtside on the sport, and all over the place I’m going individuals are screaming my identify, screaming different gamers’ names. It’s not simply within the States, both. There are fanbases all over the place. It’s the results of work girls have put in through the years. It’s lengthy overdue. I need to say thanks to the entire girls earlier than me for all the things they’ve completed for the sport and all sports activities, from prime to backside. And shout out to y’all, for the love and help. We actually, actually recognize it.”
Basketball runs in Reese’s blood—not in a ‘genetic lottery’ sense, though her Amazonian top of a tidy 191 centimeters and nearly implausibly symmetrical options (she goes by Bayou Barbie on courtroom) actually helps with each the game and the celebrity that comes with it—however as a household craft. Her mom, Angel Webb, performed for the University of Maryland earlier than going skilled in Luxembourg, and her youthful brother, Julian, is signed to the Toronto Raptors. Her aunts and grandmother additionally handed down a love of the game. For her, it was by no means only a sport, however a legacy. Throughout her profession, Reese has modeled herself on the ladies who love her, taking her mom’s identify, doing her hair and make-up earlier than a sport as she did along with her grandmother, and sporting the quantity 10 jersey at LSU, the identical quantity her mom wore.
She inherited all of this, and one thing further, too. The phrase Reese makes use of is “independence”, though she laughs when she says the phrase suggests that almost all filial of dynamics. “My mom was my first coach,” she says. “She was a single mom—she was so unbiased. I understand how to chop grass, I understand how to vary a tire, I understand how to do all the things due to my mum. My mum at all times advised me, ‘You do not want anybody, you are able to do all of it your self.’ She at all times advised me to work, to work laborious at all the things I do, to place my head down and grind and let the chips fall the place they could. I keep in mind she would drive my brother and me from Maryland to Florida—17 hours within the automotive, simply vibing. “I saw then how close we are, a family willing to do whatever for you.”
And vice versa. In January, Reese paid off her mom’s mortgage for her birthday so she might retire. “I took my aunt to see Beyoncé, and I took my team to see Megan Thee Stallion,” she says. “And I love being able to share everything I get with my teammates: shoes, headphones, everything. I don’t have biological sisters, so every team I’ve been on has been my sisterhood. I want my family and friends to know they can count on me to be there for them. It matters how you treat people.”
She created The Angel C. Reese Foundation in July 2023 as an extension of this conviction, internet hosting basketball camps and monetary literacy packages for younger women from underprivileged communities. The launch was held again house in Baltimore at Saint Frances Academy, Reese’s previous highschool. At time of print, the inspiration has donated greater than US$50,000 in scholarships to its college students. Last November, Reese partnered with Reebok to supply the college’s present athletes with Angel Reese 1 signature sneakers, in addition to customized jerseys and attire. “I had 50 people in my graduating class. The school was probably 200 total,” she says. “And it’s not an easy journey for girls growing up there.” Reese gestures to the bottom beneath her ft within the studio, then a window about 20 meters to her left. “I could literally walk from the school, here to there, and there was a jail opposite the road. So I just try to give the girls confidence. Whenever I see someone tall slouching, I go, ‘Shoulders back, and stand up,’ because I know how hard it is. It’s important for them to see someone like them, because when you see it, you can believe it. You can be it.”
