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Gabrielle Union is on the cover of Vegas Magazine:

“Anyone who has known me for a long time calls me Nikki,” Union says, explaining the name comes from her middle name (Monique) and the fact that her grandfather had difficulties pronouncing Gabrielle. “It has just been Nikki, literally since birth. I answer a lot faster.”

Union is clearly more relaxed than she would have been on the other side of the hill–even on the subject of her marriage to former Jacksonville Jaguars running back Chris Howard, which ended in 2006. “If it was a bad divorce it would be different. We never had attorneys. Everyone’s like, ‘You’re a little too happy, maybe you should seem more somber.’ I feel almost bad! It helps that my ex-husband and I are best friends. I talk to him every day.”

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