Angel Reese is walking for Victoria’s Secret — and I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Other WNBA Women Who Could Do the Same

We all got that same notification right?

 

Angel Reese is the first professional athlete to walk for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 15th.

When I saw Angel Reese posing for Victoria’s Secret, I actually caught myself smiling at my phone.

It felt like a little crack in the wall — one of those quiet cultural shifts that happens when a woman simply shows up as herself and the world finally notices what she’s always carried.

Angel is a superstar.

She’s magnetic. Not just because she’s beautiful, but because she’s centered. Calm. Sure of herself. It’s also the calm that she has behind her eyes. It’s safe to say that Angel radiates the kind of beauty that feels earned. Elegant, strength wrapped in grace. It makes sense on so many levels that she’d be the first pro athlete to step into that space.

What an honor for Reese as she’s literally becoming a household name and maximizing on all of her talents, and gifts.

And of course my mind went straight to the others because the WNBA is full of women who already move like models. Women whose faces tell stories, whose confidence feels lived‑in, whose presence fills a room before they even speak.

So, as someone who’s worked behind the scenes at New York  Fashion Week and spent years admiring the artistry of both style and sport, I wanted to put together a little runway roster of my own — five WNBA  players who already embody high‑fashion energy in their own unique ways.

Here are the ones I see when I think of the runway.

Cam Brink—The Modern Muse

Cam Brink has everything you look for in a model.

Tall, confident, and there’s a softness to her beauty that I adore. It’s insane because Cam has it all. Not only is she tall and poised, but the fact that she has this expression that is wrapped in serenity that stays with someone who looks at her.

What’s crazier is that her style is impeccable. The way Cam dresses never feels forced. It’s simple and clean, very intuitive, nothing that’s ever too flashy or loud.

Looking at her modeling, and it gives me shades of early‑2000s runway models like Gisele or Gemma Ward. These were women who could make a plain white tank top look like art.

Cam’s beauty feels like that — simple, luminous, quietly confident. The kind that doesn’t chase attention, it attracts it.

Model muse: Gisele Bündchen, Kate Moss meets Elsa Hosk.

Rickea Jackson — The Bold One

Rickea Jackson needs to make her way into the modeling world.

Her style, is bold, and elegant. Rickea makes me smile when I see her photos in functions or in public  because she wears her confidence like perfume. Her confidence reflects her personality light, playful, and impossible to ignore.

The style is always on point and it feels very personal. An oversized jacket here, a bold print there, something that says I had fun getting dressed today.

Rickea has that mix of humor and edge that fashion people truly love. If Rickea were to walk inside of a room full of a stylists, she would be the type of woman they would drop everything and start arranging an entire mood board for her. Her style, grace, and aura gives off Rihanna vibes she embraced the modeling side of her career, especially during her Fenty launch era.

Rickea is fearless, magnetic, a little mischievous.

Model muse: Duckie Thot meets Rihanna off-duty.

 Temi Fagbenle — The Quiet Power

Temi Fagbenle is by far one of the most beautiful women in the WNBA, by a mile.

I wonder how she’s not already a model. Every time I see Temi, the same thought happens “how is she this beautiful”, it’s safe to say her beauty takes my breath away. Beyond her looks, which she serves nightly, there’s something truly regal about her presence and ambience. Funny enough because as queenly as she looks, her style and energy is warm and inviting. Her face holds light in the most mesmerizing way.

She has what models call “presence without pose.” The kind of elegance that doesn’t need explaining. If she were in a campaign, I imagine soft gold tones, silk fabric, and a camera that lingers — because you simply wouldn’t want to look away.

She makes me think of Adut Akech — that same poised stillness that feels both ancient and fresh at once.

Model muse: Adut Akech with Naomi-era mystique.

Maddy Westbeld — The Wild Grace

Maddy Westbeld is a sleeper that could definitely be mistaken for a model. Maddy is has the type of style that effortlessly cool that’s almost impossible to fake. Her hair does its own thing — wild and beautiful — and she lets it. I love the fact she carries herself with a mix of strength and ease.

Maddy is very much someone that is entirely comfortable in her own skin.

Maddy gives me Cara  Delevingne vibes but a lot more gentler. Maddy has the exact kind of androgynous beauty that belongs equally in sneaker culture and couture fashion. The embodiment of 2025, she’s has something incredibly modern about her.

I don’t know who created this unwritten rule that there is a specific way that femininity has to look. There’s just something about the way Maddy shrugs off that whole unspoken rule — it’s kind of everything.

Model muse: Cara Delevingne meets Freja Beha Erichsen.

Sonia Citron — The Classic Runway Heart

Sonia Citron is exactly the type of woman someone would walk inside of a Starbucks, the grocery store or the mall and you’d notice would swear up and down you’ve seen her in a magazine or a runway somewhere.

She’s the type who you’d feel would secretly be a model between flights. Sonia is tall, elegant, unhurried, and unbothered. The features she has are perfect for modeling as she is balanced and kind. Citron posses the kind of beauty that photographers would adore because she’d shoot softly even in the harshest light.

Now when she dresses up, it’s game over, curtains, close the casket because she stunningly glows.

Funny enough even in sweatpants, hair tied, chilling with no makeup on she still is a stunning. Citron defintely gives off Alessandra Ambrosio vibes. That timeless, understated, quietly captivating type of look.

Model muse: Alessandra Ambrosio with a touch of Karlie Kloss.

 Why It Stays With Me

I think what moves me most about Angel’s moment, is how she is transcending basketball and becoming a household name.

More importantly, what Angel represents to the next generation is literally what all of these women represent. These women in my opinion are some of the WNBA players that excude the idea of what beauty can hold.

It’s wild because for the longest period of time, athletic women were told to hold themselves a certain way. Meaning they had to soften their strength, hide their muscles, and try and fit themselves into a particular mold. However, these women are obviously doing the the opposite. Instead of conforming, they’re bringing their strength to the table and letting it sparkle as a feature.

It’s not just about fashion. It’s about visibility.

It’s about a generation of women who can drop 25 points on a Tuesday and walk a runway on Wednesday — and somehow make both look natural.

As someone who loves the art of fashion, and the style of couture, and as a woman who believes beauty has room for all of us, these women make me proud.

Angel Reese might be the first.

But she definitely won’t be the last.