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Who is Paige Spiranac, professional golfer and Sports Illustrated model?
PAIGE Spiranac is a 27-year-old professional golfer and model.
She also heads her own podcast about life as a golfer and social media influencer.
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She once was at the center of a leaked nude photo scandal.
Who is Paige Spiranac?
Spiranac is a professional golfer, model, and social media personality.
She currently has on Instagram.
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The 27-year-old is known for her outspoken off -course anecdotes which she shares on her podcast .
In 2017 she became an ambassador for Cybersmile, a charity that aims to provide support and educational programmes in order to help combat cyber bullying and its effects.
She has now entered the next stage of her career with the launch of her podcast, as the self-styled "OG Insta golf girl" aims to continue to contribute to good causes.
What does she do for a living?
Spiranac is most notable as a professional golfer.
After playing college golf at both the University of Arizona and San Diego State University, she went pro in 2015.
Speaking on her podcast Playing-A-Round, she said: “Golf is elitist, it’s stuffy, it’s exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I’m still not welcomed in.
“It’s like my whole life I’m trying to find a place where I can fit in and that I feel comfortable and that I feel at peace with myself and I haven’t found that.
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"Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I’m not.
“I’m not refined, I’m raw and real and I wear what I want and I have always been so different and golf is not that way."
What did she say about the NBA bubble?
players are finding. themselves isolated from the outside world as the league gets ready to restart their season.
Spiranac recently theorized that NBA players may have an that's kept among themselves in the Orlando bubble.
She pondered how the “snitch hotline,” which is used to report rule-breakers, could come into play for sneaking women in.
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“Do you think it’s different though when it comes to p***y,” said the 27-year-old.
“Like as an unspoken p***y code where if you have a girl there, you don’t say anything, but it’s like if you don’t wear a mask, free-for-all.”
, claimed she already got an invitation posting on Twitter, "I already got invited to the bubble."
is the league’s $170million effort to complete its COVID-19 ravaged season at Disney’s World Complex in Orlando, Florida.
What happened to her nude photos?
Spiranac has spoken out on the - and how she managed to take back control of her body by getting her "t*ts out" on her own terms.
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The social media personality once sent a nude picture to a guy she was dating, but things turned nasty after they broke up.
Her ex decided to share the picture among his friends, and before long the image had circulated beyond control, with Spiranac having to face a barrage of messages from strangers that had seen the image.
When the golfer decided to confront people as to how they had got their hands on the picture, they refused to tell her.
On her podcast, she said: "It was horrible, just getting these random messages from people you don’t know and they’ve seen you in such a vulnerable way. It was disgusting.
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"When I finally confronted the guy and said, ‘I can’t believe you did this to me’, he said - and I’ll never forget this - ‘You are the sl*t who sent it to me, you deserve this."
“Also, that was one picture. I don’t know what else he had or what he was going to release. If he did it once, he could do it again and again and again.”
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Spiranac also felt the ludicrous double standards of some men, as she was continuously "sl*t shamed" for the picture - while simultaneously being sent pictures of men's genitalia from strangers.
She had always dreamed of appearing in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, and when the opportunity arose, it helped her lay her demons to rest once and for all.
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"I felt so empowered and I was like, ‘OK, if I’m going to do this, I’m doing it on my terms' and I took it back, I took my body back.
“That was the moment I won, right there, when I did Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and I had my t**s out.”
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