- Dates: February 2016 - May 2016
- Type: Television Commercial
"MINI USA | Abby Wambach | #DefyLabels" Obnoxious, overrated, washed up... she's been called it all. And she's overcome it all. Watch as Abby Wambach speaks about labels and transcending them. Those who defy labels, define themselves. The 2016 Mini Super Bowl ad will feature 6 celebrities/athletes. Each of them will participate in interviews prior to the Big Game. This ad features Abby Wambach who is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in soccer and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. My labels? My labels that I've been labelled in my life? Uff. Oh, I've been called a girl, a tomboy, a dyke, a lesbian, a butch, a bitch... a lot of 'em. And I don't care. Those are things that, for me, never defined who I was. Never defined how I played. Never defined my individuality and my authentic self. They all are me and they all aren't me. I don't ever give anybody else the power to call me something and have me be affected by it. I realize that we're all different, and I've accepted who I was at a pretty early age, and once I accepted myself and who I was, I don't care what you call me. The confidence just came. You have to honor and own who you are, period. When I was in my friend's Min, gosh, it must be 15 years ago, it's a manual transmission, so I was just bombing around town. You are completely in it, and you have complete control over it. There's been labels that's been put on this car from the time that it was built. You know, it's a chick car, it's slow, it's too small. And it's just trying to completely blow that label and all the labels out of the water because the reality is it's a pretty sick car. Everything that you do is a statement about who you are. Every decision you make ends up becoming your life. And if somebody says something or thinks something about you and it's not true - who cares? Defying Labels Abby Wambach Mini Why Mini? #DefyLabels