The Breakfast Club - Claressa Shields is ready for a family + Taylor Rooks is married!!!

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Who knew Taylor Rooks was even engaged?? Loren celebrates Taylor’s wedding and the way she was able to pull it off! Claressa Shields will be fighting this week, but is already planning life after the fights talking family planning while on a press run for her fight!!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that shake the room baby. Now, every now and then I give y'all a little sprinkle of an exclusive, but today the exclusive, not even exclusive because it's all over the worldwide web. It's all over Beyonce's internet at this point. We ain't even checking it behind the scenes of the grind because I am flabbergasted. Y'all Taylor Rooks, broadcaster, media personality, sportscaster, the Taylor Rooks. I think all of us, you know, the black girls and media and, and, you know, and reporting we root so much for Taylor Rooks as we do a lot of the other girls,

the Joy Taylors, the Carrie champions, the Jemele Hills, all of the girls, especially, you know, me, because I am not a sports, I am not a sports reporter. I can get a concept of a story in sports as it relates to culture and entertainment, but y'all be hearing me when I get through, you know what I mean? I do my sports stories on the Breakfast Club or here on the podcast. I try and stick to what I'm good at, but sometimes the world's intertwined, so I dibble and I dabble, but those girls are so good.

They know the facts, the numbers, they're hard hard at work they're at the games or traveling or doing other things but what I love so much about what just happened with Taylor Rooks and the fact that she is married she announced yesterday via her Instagram that she is married I didn't even know she was engaged I assumed she was dating she's gorgeous she's assumed she was dating. She's gorgeous. She's successful She's young, you know what I mean? So of course I assumed she was dating but because we had never seen Anything or heard anything about who she was dating. I did not know she was dating serious enough to be engaged and now married So yesterday Taylor Rooks took to her Instagram to post photos from her wedding.

I would say it was a surprise wedding, but baby, it's given, only we were surprised. So many other people knew. So she posted the photos and she captioned it, "'What a night, this is love' with the wedding ring emoji." Now in these photos, you see her and her new hubby under her veil. Then there's photos of her by herself walking down the aisle. There's

photos of Taylor Rooks and new hubby. She's holding up her wedding ring. Diamond, okay. It's a diamond, okay. The girl, the rock is sitting nice, but she has her hand on her hubby's face. Looks like it's like a photo booth picture from after the wedding from the reception. And then there's photos of her and just like the people who attended. And I think that's what's most impressive is the fact that not only was it private

and very intimate and you know, when you're in the public eye, you don't get to not share moments like these much because sometimes even if you trying to keep it private, the people around you are so excited for you that they want to tell the world. And then boom, here you go. Everybody knows you engaged, you married, you got a man, you got a dish, you got to that, right? The guest list was five star and she still managed to be able to keep this

wedding private. Um, in attendance, there are photos of Mike Rubin, uh, you know, music artist, Jack Harlow, Coco Jones, and her newly engaged fiance, Donovan Mitchell, who's an NFL player, Saquon Barkley, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green. The people were in the building. Reports say that Taylor Rooks was married in New York, but I don't even know how we were confirming these reports

because she didn't mention where She was married. So it's like how do we even know that we don't know anything and it is so fire Oh my god, congratulations to Taylor Rooks and her husband There are little to no details known about her husband besides the photos that she posted which I think are also dope But yeah, it was it was just so fly I'm one of the girls that I love to see the career girls, especially at a young age, have all of the things. Do the family thing, have kids, have a husband, be happy in the marriage and actually having it last. But also be able to like, you know,

adamantly go after your career and your goals and establish a life for yourself. And you know, and there's nothing wrong with this, right? Like there are women who, you know, their lives and their careers and their names revolve around the men in their lives, their husbands, their kids' fathers. I'm not knocking nobody.

But what I'm saying is, is that my personal preference has always been for myself to be like, look, I'm gonna be in love, I'm saying is is that my personal preference has always been for myself to be like look I'm gonna be in love I'm gonna be married. I'm gonna have children I'm gonna have the big wedding the fairytale wedding, you know I want that for myself and you know I want my mother and my grandmother and my niece and you know the people I love to be able to see me be loved Correctly, but I've always been worried like, okay, at some point in my career, there's going to be a conversation about you're a woman.

So what about family? What about marriage? What about this? What about that? And I don't want my career and the work that I've worked for to be tied to my relationship or my husband. Not even not tied to, I don't mind that because me and my man so equally yoked. That's what it's always going to be given, right? But more so, I don't want that to overshadow

my work. Every single day I'm working like harder to get better at what I do and what I do and even what Taylor Rooks does or you know, Jamel Hill and you know, all of the women, shoot, shout out the stat baby on Kim and Macy's it is what it is me and her We've never met in person. We've tried to link up, but me and her have you know become Social media friends and watching her navigate her journey over you know on it is what it is Well, I'm here on breakfast club And you know what you guys on the latest with Lauren the Rose of the podcast has been a journey And we both always you know say to each other that everything's just moving so crazy.

So to see the girls have it all and be able to establish it all, but not have everything centered around or the conversation centered around your relationship status or what's happening in your womb, but more about the hard work that you're putting in, the points you're putting on the board, the great interviews you're doing, the great content you're putting in, the points you're putting on the board, the great interviews you're doing, the great content you're putting out, the efficiency of all those things, that matters to me. I can't speak for any of the other women that I just mentioned, but that matters a lot to me, a whole lot. So I thought the way that Taylor Rooks went about this was super fly, number one, super fly. And I just thought it was dope. I thought it was fire to see her, you know, walk down the aisle and celebrate and do all these things. And we had no idea it was happening. And it

wasn't nothing little about this wedding, baby. This was big Taylor Rooks big wedding. Okay. guestless crazy setup of the wedding looked amazing. It looked literally like a fairy tale wedding. She looked beautiful as well. So congratulations, the sis we see you, girl, you did that. You ate that. Yes, okay. Putting it on the Pinterest board.

Now in other news, today we're having a conversation about women in sports. Look at me trying to be, you know, all in the women in sports conversation. Clarissa Shields will be fighting this weekend in Detroit. She's fighting Lani Daniels. And Clarissa Shields is, she's been, I met her at the Breakfast Club when she came and we interviewed her the first, my first time, I've only interviewed her once, my first

time interviewing her was not her first time here, but then she also came back to the Breakfast Club again, which I wasn't in the interview for. But she talked about wanting to be a mom in both of those interviews and what that looked like. We're having a conversation about women with very demanding and big careers, being able to go on and do all of the things, right? I definitely think of Clarissa because I've been watching her journey

since meeting her here on The Breakfast Club when she was promoting her movie, The Fire Inside, that came out on Christmas of 2024, which stars Ryan Destiny, and it's the story of Clarissa Shields life. One of the things I was thinking about when I was talking to her was just her sport is so physical and being able to have a kid and establish a family and all those things also requires a lot of your physical as well. So I've always wondered what that experience was going to be like for her.

For instance, Clarissa Shields was on The Pivot, which is the show with Ryan Clark and all the guys. And she talked about not even being able to have sex before the fight because of the way that an orgasm affects a woman versus a man. Let's take a listen. When it comes to sex, right, men and women may look at it different.

Women have something called orgasms. And when women have that, it take a lot out of you. I'm training two or three times a day. I don't got time to be trying to force myself to work out because I don't have to f*** orgasm. I would rather keep everything in. And I feel like to me, I feel like it helps me be more prepared for the fight.

And when you go without sex, and I mean, you guys are men, it do make you be a bit more aggressive and you can lift more weights and you can squat more weight and everything. It's the same thing for me. That's a lesson to you young boys out there. Women, c*** too.

And in hearing her talk about this, my first thought is, is like, how long does Klai versus Shields have to go without sex? Because she's never specified. She said just before a fight. And I'm like well how long and how does that work when you're trying to have a kid? midst of your career Fights coming up like it's just a lot to balance I feel for anybody who things are growing you have a lot to balance cuz y'all know

We started this podcast in midst of so much growing and moving for me. The latest with Lauren LaRosa has been not just a podcast and entertainment news and trending topics, but you guys have grown with me through a journey of all of the things since meeting me on the Breakfast Club. All of my lowriders here. So my soft spot for women in the spotlight who are figuring all this stuff out is like no other because I'm new here. Spotlight is still, I ain't nowhere near Clarissa and what her like you know what I mean like I can't imagine is what I'm saying and I think a lot of people right now unfairly are having a

conversation about distraction with Clarissa I think a lot of people right now are having a conversation about women in any industry and across industries and what they're able to do what they're able to balance and what they're able to not balance and this're able to balance and what they're able to not balance. In this episode, you know, when I was putting it together and I was thinking about what we could do, you know, in extension to everything that was trending today, the first thing I thought about is, man, the girls is having it all. Okay, they got their man by their side, they got the business deals popping,

Clarissa is dropping music and she previewed it last night in Detroit Let's take a listen to it's really short, but we got a snippet of one of her songs And baby the girls is coming for all of it all of it I call her what's her name, I don't need her name. Who? I know you never say. And baby, the girls is coming for all of it. All of it. So with this being said, I want to take y'all to the streets. You for the streets. We outside, we outside, we outside.

Outside in the streets. Every other page are gold. Because another thing that went down yesterday, in the midst of the conversation of the girls having it all. People were so sad that Taylor Rooks popped out Mary. Like I know that men be on the girls with the things going on, but baby where they said somebody said L brothers media on X said, not only did clay Thompson pull back the stallion,

but a light skin and where with waves just married Taylor rooks we up. It's our time baby 2025 is the year of the beige brotherhood. Laugh out loud. The light skins is outside. That's what it's giving. Uh, carercy a kid said we lost Coco Jones, Meg and Taylor rooks all all in a two-month spin with a sad face emoji Shout out to a Kev Coke 6 on X. Let's send him some love y'all He tweeted and he said I just opened up IG and saw Taylor Rooks got married. Please respect my privacy at this time Cuz these were the bays these were the bays of the sports industry. Clarissa Shields gets it. Taylor Rooks gets it. I understand.

But I think that it's crazy too. I wrote this line down when I was prepping for this episode. I really think it's crazy how big the conversation gets around women who choose to have all this. Serena Williams went through this too when she decided to have her baby, her daughter, her first daughter with her husband Alexis. And Venus Williams announced her engagement at the same time that sis made history. At 45 years old, Venus Williams became the second oldest woman to win a tour level match, according to ESPN.

She took this from a woman who was the oldest woman at the time in 2004. She was age 47 who won Wimbledon. I say that to say guess what headline lasted longer out of the two. Venus Williams announces she is engaged. People be so surprised to see women have all of the things when you're successful and your career is loud. Naomi Osaka. People give it to her really, really hard whenever she doesn't win or doesn't perform at 200%. I've even seen people openly say, you know, online,

she shouldn't have had a kid at the height of her career. When the girls do finally get to have all the things, the way that we have conversations about them is so different than how we have it about men. Completely different. And I get it, babies, don't come out of men's bodies. I get it. You know, women and men have different roles in marriages and how, you know, the marriages

change what they're able to do outside of the home. And you know, just I understand the double standards. But I do feel like this is the era of the women being able to stand next to a partner who understands our power. I was going to say take back our power. But it's not even that it's standing next to the right partner who understands our power. I was gonna say take back our power, but it's not even that. It's standing next to the right person who understands your power so that you can have all things because the balance that you're gonna need to learn

both mentally and physically, that partner sitting next to you, baby, it ain't nothing but a thing. So shout out to all the ladies. For some reason, we focus mostly on women in sports today, not even on purpose, but yes, shout out to the ladies ladies. For some reason we focus mostly on women in sports today, not even on purpose, but yes, shout out to the ladies having all of the things. At the end of the day, there's always a lot to talk about

and I appreciate you guys being right here with me every episode to talk about at my Lowriders. I will see you guys in my next episode. This is an iHeart podcast.