Elle Bielfeldt (Leonard) is known as the popular wife of Meyers Leonard (Miami Heat NBA Player). Despite coming into fame due to her marriage, Elle has shown that she is a successful individual in her own right. Just like her husband, she is an athlete with basketball playing history who almost went professional. Elle is a serial entrepreneur with a good head for business and a flair for several things.
She has a fitness and nutrition brand, she is the CEO of Level Foods with her brand of nutrition bars. She is also the business manager of the Meyers Leonard Brand. Elle has a huge following on social media which might be related to her stunning looks, hot body, skills with the ball, and of course marriage to Meyers Leonard.
The Early Life Of Elle Bielfeldt
The stunning woman was born Elle Bielfeldt on the 15th of January 1992 in Peoria, Illinois, the U.S. Her parents David and Julie Bielfeldt raised her and her 3 siblings (Lydia, Matti, and Max) in Peoria. She attended the local high school called Peoria Notre Dame. After which she proceeded to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Elle’s family has a long-standing tradition with the institution as her grandparents, uncles, and aunts are all alumni.
While in college, she was able to balance her studies and sporting activities quite well. She graduated with a 3.73 GPA with a bachelor’s degree in Advertising.
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1. Elle Played Basketball in High School
For several decades, basketball has been a very important sport to the Bielfeldts. Elle has confessed that she wasn’t really good at the sports initially but got better after she went to a basketball camp with her brother. According to her, she was the only girl in the camp and didn’t want to appear weak so she practiced until she got better.
In high school, she made it as a four-year starter with over 1,000 career points. Her choice to continue the family tradition and attend the University of Illinois ended her budding basketball career.
2. Elle continues to practice and shoot the ball with her husband
Elle has shared that shooting is one of the few things that relaxes her. She does shoot well and her husband has shared some videos of her making trick shots. After a video of her doing H.O.R.S.E went viral, fans were impressed by her crossover and step-back and soon began to make some negative comments about her husband’s game.
Some replies went as far as telling her to teach her husband her moves as her outside shot is better than his. Elle was quick to ‘clap back’ at these trolls. She responded that having played basketball and watched many games, the NBA players need to be given more respect as they make it look easy on the court.
3. Her venture into Level Foods line of Bars was unprecedented
Meyers didn’t do well in the 2016-17 season due to health issues from injuries and a thyroid problem. His health issues were said to be related to his food and a nutritionist restructured his whole diet which improved his health tremendously.
During the busy NBA season, Elle realized that it will be easy for him to fall back into his old diet, she then decided to offer him nutrition bars to prevent his inflammation from returning. As she couldn’t find a bar that fits into his prescribed diet, she made them her self according to his needs. This was how Level Foods was founded in 2018.
4. How she met her husband
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The adorable couple met while in college. According to Meyers, he noticed her in his circle of friends as she was friends with one of the girlfriends of a senior basketball player (Mike Davis). They studied together a few times, became friends, and started dating that summer.
5. Their proposal and wedding
The duo continued to date even after Meyer’s NBA Draft selection by the Trail Blazers in 2012. When Elle was to graduate in 2014, her family threw her a massive graduation party where Meyer proposed to her in front of her family and friends. They finally got married in Oregon on the 2nd of August 2015.
6. She owns a blog
With all the things going on in her life, it comes as a surprise that Elle owns and still finds time to update her personal blog where she discusses fitness, wellness, and life generally. Her experience with her husband’s health has led her to believe that everyone could use some guidance on healthy living. She also shares several great recipes.
7. Elle is a social media lover
Elle is a social media lover and isn’t shy to showcase her dog, family, and man. The duo has so many playfully adorable moments which they share on Instagram, Twitter, and some times Tik-Tok. She has over 52k followers on Instagram.
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8. They are yet to start having children
While Elle and Meyers haven’t shown signs of having their own children, they are happily co-parenting their dog, Koko.
9. Elle Bielfeldt is tall but her husband is taller
Elle has an impressive height. Compared to her husband’s 7’1″, she is 5’10” tall.
10. The favorite food, and inspiration of Meyers Leonard’s wife
Elle is a fitness enthusiast and it is obvious from how fit she looks. As balance is very important, she indulges herself once in a while by eating Donuts which she describes as her guilty pleasure. Her favorite food is Sushi and she is inspired by the life of Jennifer Lopez.
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