Claressa Shields is ready for a family + Taylor Rooks is married!!!

it's all over the world wide Web. It's all over Beyonce's Internet. At this point, we ain't even checking it. Behind the scenes of the Grind because I am flabbergascid, y'all. Taylor Rooks, broadcaster, media personality, sportscaster, the tailor Rooks. I think all of us, you know, the black girls and media and you know and reporting, we root so much for Taylor Rooks as we do a lot of the other girls, the Joy Taylor's, the Carrie Champions, the Jamail Hills,

all of the girls. Especially you know me because I am not a sports but I am not a sports reporter. I can get a concept of a story in sports as it relates to culture and entertainment. But y'all be hearing me when I get through, you know what I mean. I do my sports stories on the Breakfast Club here on the podcast, I try and sick to what I'm good at, but sometimes the world's intertwined, so I dibble and I dabble. But those girls are so good. They

know the facts, the numbers. They're hard at work, they're at the games, they're traveling or doing all the things. But what I love so much about what just happened with Taylor Rooks and the fact that she is married. She announced yesterday via her Instagram that she is married. I didn't even know she was engaged. I assumed she was dating. She's gorgeous, she's successful, she's young, you know what I mean. So of course I assume she was dating.

But because we had never seen anything or heard anything about who she was dating, I did not know she was dating serious enough to be engaged and now married. So yesterday Taylor Rooks took to her Instagram to post photos from her wedding. I would say it was a surprise wedding, but baby, it's given. Well, only we were surprised. So many other people knew, so she posted the photos and she captioned it, what a night This is love with the wedding ring emoji. Now in these photos you

see her and her new hubby under her veil. Then there's photos of her by herself walking down the aisle. There's photos of Taylor Rook's and new hubby. She's holding up her wedding ring. A diamond okay, it's a diamond. Okay. The girl the rocket sitting nice, but she has her hand on her hubby's face looks like it's like a photo booth picture from after the wedding, from the reception, and then there's photos of her and just like the

people who attend it. And I think that's what's most impressive is the fact that not only was it private and very intimate, and you know, when you're in the public eye, you don't get to not share moments like these much because sometimes even if you're trying to keep it private, the people around you are so excited for you that they want to tell the world. And in boom, here you go. Everybody knows you engage, you married, you got a man, You gotta this, you gotta that right.

The guest list was five star, and she still managed to be able to keep this wedding private. In attendance, there are photos of Mike Rubin, you know, music artist Jacques Harlow, Coco Jones, and her newly engaged fiance Donovan Mitchell, who's NFL player, Saquon Barkley, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green. The people were in the building. Reports say that Taylor Rooks was married in New York, but I mean, I don't even know how we were confirming these reports because she

didn't mention where she was married. So it's like, how do we even know that? We don't know anything? And it is so fire, Oh my god, congratulations and Taylor Rooks and her husband. There are little to no details known about her husband besides the photos that she posted, which I think are also dope. But yeah, it was.

It was just so fly. I'm gonna the girls that I love to see, the career girls, especially at a young age, have all of the things, do the family thing, have kids, have a husband, be happy in the marriage and actually having it last, but also be able to also be able to, like you know, adamantly go after your career and your goals and establish a life for yourself,

you know. And there's nothing wrong with this, right Like, there are women who you know, their lives and their careers and their names revolve around the men in their lives, their husbands, their kids, fathers. I'm not knocking nobody, But what I'm saying is is that my personal preference has always been for myself to be like, Look, I'm going to be in love, I'm going to be married, I'm going to have children. I'm going to have the big wedding,

the faerytale wedding. You know. I want that for myself. And you know, I want my mother and my grandmother and my niece and you know, the people I love to be able to see me be loved correctly. But I've always been wor like, Okay, at some point in my career there's going to be a conversation about you're a woman, so what about family? What about marriage? What

about this? What about that? And I don't want my career and the work that I've worked for to be tied to my relationship or my husband, not even not tied too. I don't mind that because me and my man so equally yoked. That's what it's always going to be given right, but more so, I don't want that

to overshadow my work. Every single day I'm working like harder to get better at what I do and what I do and even what Taylor Rooks does, or you know, Jamel Hill, and you know, all of the women shoot shout out the stat baby on Kim and Mason's It

Is What It Is. Me and her we've never met in person, We've tried to link up, but me and her have you know, become social media friends and watching her navigate her journey over you know, on It Is What It Is, while I'm here on Breakfast Club and you know what you guys on the latest with Lauren the roads of the podcast has been a journey, and we both always you know, say to each other that

everything's just moving so crazy. So to see the girls have it all and be able to establish it all, but not have everything centered around or the conversation centered around your relationship status or what's happening in your womb, but more about the hard work that you're putting in, the points you're putting on the board, the great interviews you're doing, the great content you're putting out, the efficiency

of all those things that matters to me. I can't speak for any of the other women that I just mentioned, but that matters a lot to me, a whole lot. So I thought the way that Taylor Rooks went about this was superfly number one superfly, and I just thought it was dope. I thought it was fired or see her, you know, walk down the aisle and celebrate and do all these things. And we had no idea it was happening. And it wasn't nothing little about this wedding. Baby, this

was big Tailor Rooks, big wedding. Okay, guests, LIS's crazy set up. All the wedding looked amazing. It looked literally like a fair tale wedding. She looked beautiful as well. So congratulations, this sist. We see you girl. You did that? You ate that? Yes? Okay? Putting it on the Pinterest board. Not in other news today, we having a conversation about women in sports. Look at me trying to be you know, all in the women in sports conversation. Clarissa Shields will

be fighting this weekend in Detroit. She's fighting Lonnie Daniels and Clarissa Shields is she's been. I met her at the Breakfast Club when she came and we interviewed her my first time. I'm only interviewer, was my first time interviewing her, was not her first time here. But then she also came back to the Breakfast Club again, which I wasn't in the interview for, but she talked about wanting to be a mom in both of those interviews

and what that looked like. You know, we're having a conversation about women with very demanding and big careers being able to go on and do all of the things right. I definitely think of Clarissa because I've been watching her journey since meeting her here on the Breakfast Club when she was promoting her movie The Fire Inside that came out on Christmas of twenty twenty four, which starts Ryan

Destiny and it's the story of Clarisa Shield's life. One of the things I was thinking about when I was talking to her was just her sport is so physical, and being able to have a kid and establish a family and all those things also requires a lot of your physical as well, So I've always wondered what that

exerience was gonna be like for her. Like, for instance, Clarisa Shields was on the Pivot which is you know the show with Ryan Clark all the guys, and she talks about not even being able to have sex before the fight because of the way that an orgasm affects a woman versus a band. Let's take a listen. When it comes to sex, right, men and women look at it. Different.

growing and moving. For me, the Latest with Lorna Rosa has been not just a podcast and entertainment news and training topics, but you guys have grown with me through a journey of all of the things since meeting me on the Breakfast Club, all of my low riders here. So my soft spot for women in the Spotlight who are figuring all this stuff out is like no other because I'm new here. Spotlight is to I know, nowhere near Clarissa and her like you know what I mean,

Like so I can't imagine, is what I'm saying. And I think a lot of people right now, unfairly are having a conversation about distraction with Clarissa. I think a lot of people right now are having a conversation about women in any industry and across industries and what they're able to do and what they're able to balance and what they're able to not balance. And this episode, you know, when I was putting it together, and I was thinking about what we could do, you know, an extensions to

everything that was trending today. The first thing I thought about is men. The girls is having it all. Okay, they got their men by their side, they got the business deals popping. Clarissa is dropping music and she previewed it last night in Detroit. Let's take a listen to is really short, but we got a snippet of one of her songs. Okay, what's up?

things going on, but by b where they said? Somebody said El Brothers. Media on X said, not only did Klay Thompson pull Magde Stallion but a light skin and word with waves just married Taylor Rooks. We up, it's our time. Baby. Twenty twenty five is the year of the Paige Brotherhood. Laugh out loud. The light skins is outside, That's what it's giving. A Corosiate kid said, we lost Coco Jones, Meg and Taylor Rooks all in a two

month spin with a sad face emoji. Shout out to Kevkoke six on X. Let's send him some love, y'all. He tweeted, and he said, I just opened up IG and saw Taylor Rooks got married. Please respect my privacy at this time because these were the baths, these were the bays of the sports industry. Corusa Shields gets it. Taylor Rooks gets it. I understand, But I think that's crazy too. I wrote this line down when I was

prepping for this episode. I really think it's crazy how big the conversation gets around women who choose to have it all this. Serena Williams went through this too when she decided to have her baby, her daughter, her first daughter with her husband Alexis and Venus. Williams announced her engagement at the same time that SYS made history at forty five years old, Venus Williams became the second oldest woman to win a tour level match, according to ESPN.

She took this from a woman who was the oldest woman at the time in two thousand and four, she was aged forty seven who won Wimbledon. I say that to say, guess what headline lasted longer out of the too. Venus Williams announces she is engaged people being so surprised to see women have all of the things. When you're successful in your career is loud naomio osaka. People give it to her really, really hard whenever she doesn't win

or doesn't perform at two hundred percent. I've even seen people openly say, you know, online, she shouldn't have had a kid at the height of her career. When the girls do finally get to have all the things, the way that we have conversations about them, it's so different than how we have it about men, completely different. And I get it. Babies don't come out of men's bodies.

I get it. You know, women and men have different roles in marriages, and how do you know the marriages change what they're able to do outside of the home, and you know just I understand the double standards, but I do feel like this is the era of the women being able to stand next to a partner who

understands our power. I was going to say, take back our power, but it's not even that standing next to the right person who understands your power so that you can have all things because the balance that you're gonna need to learn both mentally and physically, that partner sitting next to you, baby, ithing, it ain't nothing but a thing. So shout out to all the ladies. For some reason, we focus mostly on women in sports today, not even on purpose, but yes, shout out to the ladies having

all of the things. At the end of the day, there's always a lot to talk about, and I appreciate you guys being right here with me every episode to talk about it. My lowriders. I will see you guys in my next episode.