“I’M NOT AN ACTIVIST I’M JUST HONEST”
SHAUNAGH BROWN is pure energy, and that energy comes through the lens. Ask her to pull a variety of expressions for the camera and she reels off a couple of dozen without pause – you can see a few opposite. Suggest a shot that involves her trying to catch ten balls and she’s well up for the challenge, even critiquing a certain writer’s throw (and highlighting that she’d like to play with smaller balls). It’s all done with a huge smile too; she jokes with the photographer that there’s no halfway house when asked to look happy, it’s a full-on beam.
Later, when the photo shoot is done but with a Harlequins training session to come, the energy still doesn’t dip as Brown sits down for the interview at Surrey Sports Park. It’s a full-on attitude with which she approaches most of life.
She starts talking through her tattoos, lifting her shirt to show a book inked on the left-hand side of her torso. The plan is to have pages falling down her left leg illustrating the “story of my life” – the England Commonwealth Games logo for her achievements in athletics’ throwing events; a flame for her time as a British Gas engineer; a couple of helmets – one to represent her spell as a commercial diver and one for her
