Angel Reese is making her mother’s birthday needs come true!
On Thursday, Jan. 30, the Chicago Sky star, 22, invited her mom “Mama Angel,” whose actual title is Angel Webb Reese, onto her YouTube present Unapologetically Angel. They spent virtually an hour discussing Reese’s rise to fame and basketball profession earlier than her mother’s birthday shock was revealed.
“Properly it’s your birthday right now,” Reese stated as a birthday cake was introduced to her mother.
“Earlier than we sing ‘Blissful Birthday,’ you stated that in case your mortgage was paid off that you’d retire otherwise you received’t work,” she continued. “You may decide if you wish to work nonetheless, your mortgage right now has been paid.”
Reese’s mother virtually dropped the cake in shock earlier than an assistant took it away.
Reese continued, “As we speak your mortgage has been paid, you ain’t obtained to fret about your mortgage no extra and if you wish to nonetheless work and preserve your self, you’ll be able to preserve your self busy. However Jamel has it dealt with, shout out to Jamel for making it occur, and Janine in fact. Your mortgage is paid are you continue to going to work?”
Reese’s mother struggled to seek out phrases to talk as she shook her head earlier than replying, “Are you critical?”
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Having been additionally informed that she may stick with Reese each time she needed because the WNBA star plans to get a home in Chicago this yr, she burst into floods of tears and was overcome with emotion.
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Reese and the present’s crew sang “Blissful Birthday” however had been unable to mild the cake within the studio as a consequence of security causes.
“That was my greatest purpose in life to retire you and pay your mortgage or no matter you needed to not work,” Reese stated to her mother. “You are a hard-working girl, you do not want me for no cash. That is why I at all times say, ‘She by no means wanted me for no cash.’ ”
Mama Angel confessed she was surprised as she’d already been gifted a 4 Seasons present card for her birthday.
“Now you recognize I come more durable than that,” Reese joked in response.
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The celebration got here after the WNBA star introduced that she had teamed up with McDonald’s to develop into their first feminine athlete with a particular meal.
Talking to PEOPLE, Reese revealed as a toddler she and her brother Julian would “combat typically over the Blissful Meal toys.”
“You understand how your mother and father at all times say, ‘There’s meals at house ?” she asks. “So I used to save cash so I may eat at McDonald’s.”
Reese – who was chosen because the seventh decide by Chicago Sky within the 2024 WNBA Draft – hasn’t revealed her web value however doesn’t simply depend on basketball as her supply of earnings.
Based on USA Today, her model offers between 2022 and 2023 totaled round $1.7 million. Reebok, Ps and Amazon have been amongst her many endorsements.
