Gabrielle Union for Ocean Drive Magazine

Recently Gabrielle Union sat down with Ocean Drive Magazine for their Feb 2012 issue, to talk mother hood, her relationshiop with NBA baller Dwayne Wade, and feeling at home in Miami. In addition to nabbing covers Gabrielle is a bicoastal honey with the hollywood resume of a veteran. Personally, I adore her and her bronze skin. I'm sure if you recognize her then you probably remember her as that "sassy sidekick" from the first installment of the Bring It On franchise. Well, she's all grown up now and has the image and man too. She may be working hard to change her image in Hollywood but in my eyes gabby, your a rock star!

Checkout her interview and spread inside!

Sn: girl, now that we are friends in my head, you want to tell me what you do to make your skin glow like that. Cause I know that all of that glow can't be photoshoped. I've seen you on the beach with your man! lol

On getting sick when she's away from Miami:
"A week away is pretty much it for me. When I land in Miami, I feel like I've been holding my breath and am finally exhaling. I can breathe. I feel accepted, welcomed. I feel like I can be my true self, the woman I always aspired to be... More in Miami than any other place."

On keeping her house in California:
"[It has been] great because I have my own career and life elsewhere, I have a home I paid for with my own money, and I need to be able to nurture that as well."

On life with Dwyane Wade in Miami:
"D and I have a life together, too. I love my life in Miami, I can't imagine functioning without both, I love the design district, I love Midtown, I love what's happening downtown now. I can be at People's Bar-B-Que or Sustain or Prime One Twelve, and I'm comfortable. It's rare for me to feel that level of freedom. Miami represents joy for me."

On seeing a more diversely cast group of lead actresses:
"It's great for the other groups that are getting a chance to play more roles, and ideally, I'd like to think there were enough roles for everyone. But we are trying to get [filmmakers and producers] to consider that the doctor, a lawyer, even the lead could be an African-American woman."

On her career:
"I've been lucky; for the past year, I haven't really auditioned for anything; the parts I got were straight-up offers. I'm not so grand that I wouldn't audition. In fact, I wish I could audition more. There are a lot of people who won't give me a chance because I was in 'Bring It On' one thousand years ago. They don't think I can be more than that sassy sidekick. I guess they didn't see 'Cadillac Records' or 'Neo Ned.'"

On starting a family:
"I was never someone who thought about having kids – I mean, they're great in theory, but I never imagined having one [myself]. Maybe over the next five years I could wrap my brain around becoming a mother and what that would mean in terms of sacrifice and dedication. I don't do anything impulsively, so more toward the five years out than the one-year."

Via: Theybf and Ocean Drive

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