- Fluent in Spanish.
- Didn't want to do acting but did it to pay off her university debts and found that she enjoyed it.
- Praised by Oprah Winfrey for being an activist for women. Passionate public speaker on the topic of violence against women after surviving a rape at gunpoint at the age of nineteen.
- Graduated with honors from UCLA.
- Wanted to be a lawyer.
- Has a degree in sociology.
- Union opened up about her struggles with infertility in her 2017 memoir We're Going to Need More Wine, revealing she "had eight or nine miscarriages.".
- Transferred to UCLA after a stint playing for the women's soccer team at the University of Nebraska.
- Was a cheerleader in the eighth grade.
- (August 30, 2014) Married her on-off boyfriend of 5 years Dwyane Wade in Miami, Florida, following a 8-month-long engagement.
- Has a daughter: Kaavia James Union Wade (b. November 7, 2018) with husband, Dwyane Wade.
- Has been in two adaptations of "The Taming of the Shrew": 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Deliver Us from Eva (2003).
- Despite playing a teenager in both 10 Things I Hate About You and Bring It On, she was already well into her late twenties during both roles.
- Two of her uncles were on the University of Nebraska's national championship football team. Not surprisingly, she's a huge Cornhusker and football fan, who also has some moves of her own, as she told ESPN Magazine: "I can run, catch, throw - pretty much anything. I'm like an Arena Football guy. I can play both sides of the ball. In powder puff flag football I've never lost".
- Is a big fan of the music group New Edition.
- Was on the debut cover of Savoy Magazine.
- Has 3 stepchildren: stepson, Zaire Blessing Dwyane Wade (b. February 4, 2002), stepdaughter, Zaya Wade (b. May 29, 2007) & stepson, Xavier Zechariah Wade (b. November 10, 2013) with husband, Dwyane Wade.
- Her parents are Sylvester and Theresa Union.
- Has two sisters - one older and one younger.
- Appeared in a Neutrogena commercial. (2009)
- Ranked #73 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
- She ranked #52 in Maxim's "100 Sexiest Women" (2002).
- Ranked #81 on Maxim's "Hot 100" of 2014 list.
- She ranked #81 in Stuff's "103 Sexiest Women" (2003).
- Ranked #67 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
- Saweetie's cousin once removed.
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