10 Things USWNT Forward Trinity Rodman Can't Live Without

As you guys know,

the World Cup is coming up.

Aren't these so cool?

Hey GQ, it's me, Trinity Rodman here,

member of the US Women's National Team

and Washington Spirit.

And these are my essentials.

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One of my key essentials is gum and candy.

So I'm gonna start with gum

'cause I feel like I'd rather die than not have gum.

My whole team knows this.

I will be mid-game

and if it comes outta my mouth

or if it starts to lose flavor

I will scream at the bench, wave at them,

and be like, I need another piece of gum.

Has to be Extra too.

If it's anything else, probably won't chew it.

I have a lot of cavities.

I'm not gonna say I don't take care of my teeth

'cause I do floss, brush my teeth every day.

I will eat candy on the road, before a game,

after a game, chilling in the house.

I gravitate towards anything sweet.

It's a huge problem.

I feel like growing up I was very much so into Twix,

Reese's, Snickers, all that.

Now I'm Sour Patch, Watermelon Nerds, sweets.

So now it's transitioned.

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All right, so my next essential is my PS5.

Boom!

Fortnite is the game.

I play hours on end,

I pack my entire PlayStation, all the cords,

two controllers just in case people wanna play with me.

Taylor's really the only one that has been playing with me.

I feel like it's my stress reliever,

takes me out of the world.

My brother's gamer gamer to the max

and I was always just hanging out in his room

and I'd watch him and I'd be like, Can I play?

And he would say no every time.

But when I was homeschooled,

DJ would be gone at school

and I would sneak into his room,

play like a couple games of Fortnite,

and I would hear him come home,

I'd turn it off and leave the room really fast.

He'd catch me every time 'cause it was on the screen.

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My next essential is my brand new gigantic iPad.

So I just got this.

I'm obsessed.

I have not stopped using this for two days.

I've probably spent more time on this

than I have actual human interaction,

but also I've been doodling and writing notes on it,

which is so exciting 'cause I'm very into art.

So I've just been doing random doodles.

This is just me bored on a plane.

Trinity Rodman woman.

Don't know where that comes from,

but it's been my favorite thing.

And look, my little notes and everything.

Perfect.

I love drawing and writing,

but I've always noticed I like it on paper.

I hate typing things down.

I like writing it and now I can do it on the iPad.

I'm a big vlog watcher too.

And all my teammates make fun of me

because I'm obsessed with YouTube.

One of my top ones, her name's Maggie McDonald.

Oh, another big one.

His name's Lachlan.

He is a Fortnite streamer and I watch those.

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My next essential is Bose headphones.

We got the earbuds.

I feel like these are essential for travel.

They're easy, they fit everywhere.

These aren't the most convenient in terms

of fitting them in a travel bag or like a small purse.

But as you guys know,

the World Cup is coming up.

Aren't these so cool?

I feel these are more like swag for walkout photos

and off the bus, fits all that stuff.

These goes with everything.

I use them a lot for movies

'cause I'm traveling all the time.

Or obviously music for games and stuff.

[Producer] Cool. So build us out of playlist.

A three song playlist.

Okay, so first song is Undrunk by Chris Brown.

It's an interesting song,

but it just gets me hype

and I have to listen to it before every single game.

A Boogie probably Drowning, self-explanatory.

I make them play in the locker room before

and it's just like, I don't know,

wrist so icy.

Wonder why you like me.

I'm drowning.

Just goes. [Trinity laughs]

This is a song that I've listened to

since I was U-14 before every game.

It's New Patek by Lil Uzi.

That's a must.

That one's lit.

You guys should all listen to it.

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So my next essential would be my makeup bag.

Makeup, I can't live without it,

which is weird because I play sports.

You wouldn't think you would go together.

But growing up I would watch all makeup videos.

I would practice,

I would save money that my mom would give me

so I could go to Ulta and get makeup.

I think it's like another way to express yourself,

how I feel about like tattoos and all that stuff.

It's like art.

For games I do makeup, look good, feel good, play good.

All right, I just got this.

I'm pretty happy about it.

It's a highlighter.

I'm wearing it right now actually.

Did it on myself.

Highlight, I just feel like it makes you glow

and if you do it right you won't look sweaty.

You'll just look like you got that natural inner glow,

happy.

Mascara.

I could not do my entire face,

but if I have mascara on

I feel put together and a lot better.

And I wear this for every game too.

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Next essential is my hair wax stick

and my spray water bottle.

I'm wondering how I got my hair like this.

These are the two factors.

This has changed my life

because as fellow curly hair people understand,

when you wake up it's not the prettiest sight.

My hair's everywhere.

Frizzy, curls are uneven everywhere.

I feel like all you need is water for curly hair

and it bounces right back.

This has been so much better than hair gel

because I feel like hair gel and hairspray

makes your hair crunchy,

pulls it out a little,

and this is just like, I don't know.

I don't even know what it is.

Wax stick.

But yeah, it's just easy.

My hair needs to be be glued to my head for games.

If I can feel any hair on my forehead or if it's loose

I won't be able to focus during the game.

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Next essential is

specific Adidas shoe that I wear all the time,

have it in every single color.

They're these.

I literally think I have them in every single color.

Even if it's like a white

and there's another pair that has white

with a little gray tint,

I'll get that one as well.

It's bad.

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My next essential is Colleen Hoover books.

Before this year I hadn't touched a book.

Even when I was in school, I never read.

I hated reading.

My attention span was so short that I read one page

and then I'd be like, Oh crap, what did I just read?

So I'd essentially read one chapter

and it'd take me like two hours.

But I don't know what it is about these books.

They're like rom commy mystery like,

just very locked in.

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Just a couple of my favorites.

Red Bull gives you wings.

[Trinity laughs]

So I have it before every single game.

It gets me hype in the locker room.

I mean, it tastes amazing.

My whole family likes it.

I grew up on it.

My mom loved it.

But I'd have to say the sugar free one's my favorite.

And then this is one of the newer ones.

It's June Berry.

I have a Red Bull fridge too.

It's like this mini fridge that has Red Bull all over it.

It fits an entire case of Red Bull.

It's in my room.

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Next essential is perfume.

I have to smell good.

Again, that's one of the feel good, play good things.

I have to spray it before I go on the field,

after warmup.

I need to be good.

I'd never been a perfume wearer before.

Never had my scent I feel like.

And I went to Neiman Marcus one time.

I was trying out this brand

and I didn't know how expensive anything was at the time,

but she had me try all these different types of perfumes

and I obviously fell in love with one.

When I was checking out,

she told me the price and I was like,

Way more expensive than I thought it was gonna be.

And at that point

when you spend like 30 minutes trying perfumes

and then you fall in love with one

they tell you the price you're gonna be like,

Actually, no I don't want it.

I felt like I needed to say yes

because I've been there for so long.

Every time my mom comes over

she sneaks in my bathroom and takes it.

She'll walk down the stairs

and I'll be like, You spray Beverlin?

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All right, next essential.

Last essential fish malo, plushy, I don't know,

stuffed animal.

That's my piggy.

it's actually the pig from Moana,

but I didn't realize till a while after I got it.

I was really into teddy bears before,

have a lot of little ones that I traveled with.

So I wanted my boyfriend

to have one of his own companions.

So I got this for him

and then I went over to his house one time,

cuddled with it and I was like, I want it back.

So I fully bought this for him

and took it and I've had it for like six months now.

Sleep with it every single night, travel with it.

It's literally like a body pillow,

it's like a companion.

I'm definitely superstitious about a lot.

And I didn't realize till now,

I feel like if I don't have specific products or things,

I'm not gonna think the same.

I won't be the same.

Traveling is very difficult.

Being away from home is hard.

So I feel like me finding my routine

and the things that I need when I'm on the road

has been beneficial for just mental wellbeing,

sanity, happiness, all that stuff.

Having your routine and your thing

while you're on the road is very comforting

and that's very big for me.

Thanks GQ.

I had a lot of fun.

And I'll see you guys in Australia.

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