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Royce Reed from "Basketball Wives" stars in the VH1 reality docu-series. Royce Reed has been in the spotlight nearly her entire life. Born and raised in Orlando loving all things sports, she is a former gymnast, competitive cheerleader, and dancer for professional basketball teams in both Miami and Orlando. Recently she started her own Burlesque Dance Company Fantashique which travels all over Florida. The only thing more colorful than her Fantashique dance moves is her personality. She is a firecracker a strong-minded, driven woman who is no stranger to confrontation. While she's a sweetheart most of the time, Royce can turn it on in a hot second and rarely bites her tongue. In the future, she looks forward to pursuing her acting career, finding a new man, and mixing with the rest of the basketball wives.
Her hardest task with the other wives will be debunking the negative stereotype that the wives have against team dancers. Royce Reed is the ex-girlfriend of basketball star Dwight Howard who plays center and sometimes power forward for Orlando Magic of the NBA. Royce met him when she was a dancer for Orlando Magic during the 2005-06 season. She is also a former Miami Heat dancer. She is the mother of his illegitimate son, Braylon Joshua Robert Howard, who was born on November 18, 2007. Royce Reed's mother issued the following statement after the birth of their child. "Royce and Dwight are very happy. They are very good friends. How close they are, well, you'd have to talk to them. I'm just the grandma. It was not something that was planned. It was a beautiful surprise, though". In April, 2008, Royce Reed took Howard to court for child support after calling him a deadbeat dad in her blog and an ESPN interview. On December 11, 2009, Howard reportedly filed two lawsuits against her, including one for $9.2 million in damages for defamation of character and another one for increased custody of their child.
