Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe

Female soccer stars don't come with a much higher profile than US legend Megan Rapinoe, who is still playing today at the age of 33 and may continue for a while yet. So far, she's represented her country over 140 times, and was ranked by FIFA as the second-best female player in the world in September 2015. She came out as gay in 2012, and so has been openly gay for the majority of her career. At one point she was dating fellow player Sarah Walsh, but more recently has been with Seattle Storm's Sue Bird. Together, Rapinoe and Bird became the first same-sex couple to appear on the cover of ESPN's 'Body Issue' in 2018.

Among the many sporting honors of Rapinoe's career, she was also one of the first female players to be included in the popular series of FIFA football video games, when women were included for the first time ever in 2016.

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Did You Know...

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Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.

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Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.

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Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.

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Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.

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