Angel Reese Gets Tips From Law Roach on How To Walk in High Heels Like Zendaya: ‘My Feet Always Hurt!’
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While she’s a master of agility wearing sneakers on the basketball court, WNBA star and Reebok partner Angel Reese admits she has trouble with high heels.
Though she’s rocked Gianvito Rossi slingbacks and more elevated styles on recent red carpets, the professional athlete is still not totally comfortable in heels. On an episode of her podcast “Unapologetically Angel,” she opened up about the issue to Law Roach, who is famously Zendaya‘s stylist.
She said to him, “Another hard thing for me is heels, like I hate heels. In them, my feet always hurt. What’s the most comfortable heel for you to wear, or even for Zendaya?”
Roach went on to warn her against the So Kate, a popular Christian Louboutin pump which steeply arches upward to support a soaring 120 mm heel.
Roach responded, “She wears the hardest heel. You definitely don’t want to wear those — she wears So Kate, that’s the hardest shoe to wear.”
Responding to Reese’s question of how Zendaya walks in them and if her feet ever hurt, Roach said, “Let me tell you a story. So she was 13, I made her wear a pair of So Kates. And every time I think about it I’m like, ‘Why would her parents let me do that to her?'”
Roach continued, “I made her keep them on all day, like she was crying and everything. I’m like ‘Do not take it off.’ And then the next day she wore ’em again, and then she wore ’em again. So now she can just…Her feet are trained. she can wear em all day she can run down the street in them. And those are the hardest, I think those are the most painful, most difficult shoes to her.”
Reese said to Roach, “I think it’s because I play basketball and I’m always in basketball, running shoes — my foot is not used to that arch.”
The stylist offered her some advice to get accustomed to walking in them: “You gotta start just wearing them around in your house.”
He added, “It’s really not your feet, it’s your ankles…You gotta strengthen your ankles in heels.”
Watch the full podcast episode with Angel Reese and Law Roach above.
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