Back in 2014, Mallory Edens, the daughter of the Milwaukee Bucks’ owner, represented the team at the NBA Draft Lottery. Her appearance went extraordinarily viral and catapulted her to internet fame.
On Sunday, she returned to that post, representing the team once again at the NBA Draft Lottery. Unlike in 2014, when the Bucks grabbed the second pick in the draft with her on hand, she was less lucky this year, and Milwaukee will pick 10th in the 2026 NBA Draft.
Unfortunately, one internet troll used Mallory Edens’ appearance at the lottery to criticize her looks in comparison to her appearance at the same event 12 years ago.
“Damn she aging fast. Remember when she was a smokeshow and the talk of the draft lottery when she first appeared?” the troll asked on X.
Mallory Edens fires back at troll criticizing her looks
Edens did not let the insult stand and instead fired back with a message that shut him down.
“The first time I did the lottery, I was in high school,” she replied. “I had turned 18 a few weeks beforehand and every single one of the photos of me in a bikini that went viral on the internet in the aftermath were taken when I was 15 or 16 years old. Of course I have aged – I was a child.
“I find it so strange that women are asked to delay womanhood as long as possible in favor of some kind of eternal girlhood. I don’t want to be a girl, I don’t aspire to look like a teenager. I am very happy to be a woman. If your beauty standard for me is to look like a child that’s your problem but not mine. This is not the insult that you think it is.”
Boom. Roasted.