Garcelle Beauvais revealed some juicy details about her date with Michael Jordan in her memoir, “Love Me as I Am.” She wrote (via New York Post), “I was impressed by how tall and handsome he was. He took me on a golf date after the shoot and showed me how to hold a club properly and swing.” Garcelle also noted that the NBA star wanted to take her on an idyllic Hawaii vacation. She penned, “Like a naive little girl, I was ‘clutching my pearls’ and shocked by the idea of going to Hawaii with a man I had just met.” Apparently, that was the end of their blossoming romance, as Garcelle noted, “I blew that one!”
Garcelle shed some light on how she met Jordan in an interview with USA Today. Apparently, they met at a modeling gig, but she had never heard of him before. “Now the way they said it, it sounded like I should be impressed, but I didn’t know who he was. And I didn’t want to go ‘Who’s Michael Jordan?’ and feel like an idiot.'” She recalled being impressed by “this tall chocolate man who had the nicest smile,” and who “was so genuine.” Only after the fact did her family inform her about who Jordan was.
Thankfully, things worked out in the end for the two. “But to this day, if I ever run into him, we’re always happy to see each other,” she stated.
Nicki
