Sophia Bush’s Latest Passion Might Have Everything to Do With Her Partner Ashlyn Harris

While it’s a recurrent joke that some people become the people they date , we’ll go out on a limb and say that sometimes that isn’t always the worst thing. After all, common interests may mean spending more time together, having more in common, and so on.

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For Sophia Bush , who is one of the investor in Angel City FC , it seems she’s only gotten more passionate about advocating women’s sports since dating her girlfriend and former soccer player Ashlyn Harris .

In an Athleta’s Power of She luncheon this week, Bush opened up about just that. “I, like so many other kids who grew up in LA, grew up playing soccer,” she said, per People . “But theater wound up becoming better for me than the sports that required me to run.”

Despite moving away from practicing the sport herself, she’s always had a great regard for athletes and their impact. “For me, it’s always been artists and athletes who shape and push culture,” Bush said.

“Whether you think about what Jackie Robinson did in baseball, or what our ’99-ers did in the World Cup, when you look at what the WNBA did the year that Breonna Taylor was murdered; athletes push culture, and artists have had to do the same,” she added.

“And now you see the athletes in the WNBA talking about it’s not just about their salaries, it’s about the way they don’t get to participate in profit,” she explained. “They don’t get percentages of jersey sales, they don’t get percentages of TV deals. The men do. Women are being gatekept and held out.”

“Not only am I a crazy fan who flies all over the world to watch games and wakes up in the middle of the night during the World Cup to go to the Snake Pit with my friends at 4:00 AM to watch, I believe not only in the beauty and the fun of it, but in the power of what happens when we come together in these ways,” she said.

“We all know that whether it’s my industry or theirs, all these women are not getting paid what the men are getting paid, and the only way we’re going to fix it is to start, again, mobilizing across industries,” Bush added.

Looks like Bush and Harris are not only bonding over their passions, but making a difference while they’re at it too.

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