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The connection between sports and beauty has grown significantly over the past few years. Chanel Beauty\u2019s new collective, the CC League, is a first-of-its-kind program that invites female athletes to explore their femininity outside sports and performance. The house committed to nurture and empower seven athletes across the world by giving them the tools to invent their own definition of beauty, like group-coaching sessions on self-confidence, exclusive workshops, access to a network of women outside their sport, and more. The athletes include Mexican springboard diver Gabriela Ag\u00fandez, French pole-vaulter Marie-Julie Bonnin, Hong Kong swimmer Sum Yuet Cindy Cheung, French Paralympic cyclist He\u00efdi Gaugain, South Korean short-track speed skater Kim Gil-li, South Korean climber Jain Kim, and Hong Kong fencer Janelle Leung. The collective\u2019s mentor is Renee Montgomery, a former WNBA player, a sports broadcaster, and the vice-president and co-owner of Atlanta Dream, Atlanta\u2019s WNBA team. Montgomery is the first and youngest WNBA retiree to do so. Her passion as an athlete and businesswoman makes her the greatest fit for the role. The mentor has always seen a world where sports and beauty could collide.<\/p>\n
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How do you define beauty?\u00a0
Singularity is how I would define beauty. Whatever that unique thing is about you, like if you have a gap between your teeth or freckles that you rock and owning that. It all goes back to confidence, which is the most beautiful thing, and that\u2019s what my role is as a mentor: to help instill that. I wasn\u2019t just automatically confident; my hard work is what makes me confident. I was a shooter in the game of basketball, and I didn\u2019t make shots just because. It was work. I put in a lot of hours and a lot of work, so then I was confident to shoot and make it.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s a beauty trend you\u2019d try once and never again?
There are so many different types of facials and therapies. I can almost say that I\u2019m a facial connoisseur at this point. I\u2019ve tried Chanel\u2019s signature facial and the La Fascia (a fascia-therapy massage) but anything involving needling, I\u2019m terrified about it. I might try it once, but I don\u2019t know if I can do it anymore after that. Lasering, too, I\u2019d try it but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d be a regular. Everyone says that\u2019s where the results are.<\/p>\n
What has been your No. 1 rule in retirement?\u00a0
A lot of times, even in sports, because we\u2019re built to be such team players, you\u2019re always like, I\u2019ll take less for the team in my contract, or as a point guard I was always trying to set up my teammates to make them look good. My job, in my brain, was to make them look good. When I got out of sports and started to get into business, it was a different type of world. You need to not be shy, especially as a woman. That\u2019s why I love how Chanel was built and how they focus and celebrate women and make commitments to women, especially women in business. A lot of times, we\u2019re overqualified and we don\u2019t apply ourselves, whereas our counterparts could even be underqualified and still think they\u2019re the perfect person for the job. Just being a woman in business now and being an entrepreneur and seeing the percentages of venture capital and how much the funds don\u2019t go to women, I just think, Women, we have to start asking for what we deserve.<\/p>\n
What is your No. 1 rule to young girls who want to be an athlete?
If you\u2019re working on your ball handling every day, you will be a better ball handler. If you\u2019re working on your shot every day, you will have a better shot. The best advice that I can give to athletes is that there\u2019s no secret formula \u2014 you have to put in the work.<\/p>\n
I never knew how much sports would help me in my retirement life. Because I\u2019m so disciplined, the way that I go about life is different. I will read all the emails and I will answer them, because I was taught to finish tasks. I\u2019m not going to leave a job unfinished, because that\u2019s just not what I do. For athletes especially, we\u2019re built for the C-suite because we know how to handle pressure, be a good teammate, and problem solve. These are all attributes that I\u2019m seeing now that you want your leaders in your C-suite to have. It\u2019s crazy to see how much sports prepares you.<\/p>\n
What is your No. 1 fashion rule for the WNBA draft?
There are no rules. Traditionally you used to see athletes suited and booted and very professional and not to say that the outfits aren\u2019t now, but I think they are getting more creative and showing more personality. I don\u2019t want to go back to the certain look that we had before. I\u2019m just going to say it, man, we looked a mess back then. Don\u2019t judge me for my previous fashion. That\u2019s all I will say.<\/p>\n
Social media wasn\u2019t as prevalent as it is now in breaking down our outfit. Nobody even saw what I wore before the game because there weren\u2019t cameras in the players\u2019 tunnel (what they now call the \u201ctunnel walk\u201d) to catch us. So of course, we were just wearing sweats. The evolution is that people are paying attention from head to toe what you\u2019re wearing and they\u2019re breaking down the styling, the tunnel walks, the stylists, and I love it.<\/p>\n
What is a rule that you love to break?
It\u2019s hard for people to see me in the fragrance and beauty space because they know me as an athlete. They\u2019ve known me since I was a McDonald\u2019s All-American nominee playing their All-Star games in high school. It\u2019s a beautiful thing, because they love me as an athlete. But I like breaking rules, because it also gives me the space and allows me to become so many other titles.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of firsts that still could be had, which is crazy. We still see women and men being the first to do things and it shocks me sometimes when I see these firsts happening in the present day, but that\u2019s why you have to think about breaking rules, because if you stay in those rules, some of these firsts would never happen.<\/p>\n
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