Victoria’s Secret: Angel Reese, Suni Lee make history
Victoria’s Secret called a game.
WNBA player Angel Reese and Olympic gymnast Suni Lee walked in the 2025 edition of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Wednesday, becoming the first major athletes to walk the runway at the lingerie and loungewear brand’s flagship event.
Reese, a forward for the Chicago Sky, was part of the high-profile “Wings Reveal” lineup, with the two-time All-Star making his debut twice at the event. The first was a pink floral lingerie set paired with a feathered stole, while the second featured the brand’s signature angel wings. She is the first professional athlete to participate in the show.
“It was meant for me,” Reese reportedly said in an interview before the series kicked off. “This is already for me. I’m so happy to be sitting in this room with so many incredible models and women. The team that put this together has been incredible. I’m so excited.”
Angel Reese debuted two looks at the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
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The 2025 Victoria Secret Fashion Show may have marked her professional modeling debut, but Reese has long been a fashion icon. She is known for her breakout arrival as much as her rebounding prowess among women’s basketball fans and was even a member of the 2025 Met Gala host committee. Reese capped off her remarkable collegiate career, which included an NCAA championship with Louisiana State University in 2023, by declaring herself a candidate for the WNBA draft in an interview for Vogue in 2024 and has since appeared on the cover of this magazine.
Lee, a two-time Olympian, made her fashion show debut as part of VS’s Pink line segment, sporting short shorts and a pink hoodie adorned with miniature wings. She paraded while four members of the K-pop group Twice performed live.
Suni Lee makes her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show debut.
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“Walking into something like the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was like a dream outside of my comfort zone… But that’s exactly why I said yes,” Lee told Marie Claire in a pre-show interview where she described her runway look as “sport meets glamor in the best way.”
Lee, of course, was part of the “Golden Girls” team alongside Simone Biles that won team gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Also among her six Olympic medals is all-around gold from the 2020 Tokyo Games, which took place in 2021 due to pandemic restrictions. The Minnesota native also competed on the Auburn University gymnastics team.
