Brooklyn Decker Wants to Organize Your Closet

The Charlotte native on college hoops, staying busy, and pictures from a Five Guys bathroom

- Adam Rhew

WHEN YOU’RE THE PARENT of a small child, and that small child happens to be with his grandparents, and you’re a UNC fan, and the Tar Heels are playing in the NCAA national championship game, you order food and put on your Carolina blue and turn up the volume on your TV. You do this because you’re from North Carolina, and because one time you dressed your English bulldog (named Bob Costas) in a UNC onesie.

You do this if you’re actress Brooklyn Decker, because that’s what Carolina fans do.

“We got to scream and act like idiots, because we didn’t have to worry about waking the baby,” she tells me, about three weeks after the championship game. She and her husband, tennis star Andy Roddick, have a son, Hank, who’ll turn two in September. “Wait,” Decker says, pausing the conversation, “you’re not an N.C. State fan or a Duke fan or anything like that, are you?”

Decker, who was born in Charlotte 30 years ago and graduated from Butler High School in 2005, takes her college hoops seriously, even though she was too busy to watch much basketball this season. “Up until the Elite Eight, I didn’t watch one game the entire tournament,” she says. “I was a terrible fan this year. I blame parenthood. There’s just no time.”

DECKER’S CANDOR—and her willingness to honestly portray her life online— is part of what makes her likeable. Her Twitter feed is a mix of updates about her various projects, exclamations about sports (“HEEEEEEEEEELS!!!!!” after the game), and pleas for potty training tips for Hank.

As images of violent demonstrations in uptown made international news last fall, Decker posted, simply, “Charlotte .”