Gabby Douglas, the West Des Moines-trained Olympic gold medalist, will be vaulting off the TV screen and onto your cereal box this fall. Douglas, 16, will be the newest Corn Flakes cover girl following her gold medal wins in the Olympic gymnastics team and all-around competitions. The Gabby cover is expected to hit store shelves nationwide this fall.
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(GETTY) AUGUST 03: Steve Penny of USA Gymnastics presents London 2012 Olympic Gymnastics all-around gold medalist Gabby Douglas with her very own special edition box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes which will hit stores this Fall
And a close up of the cover.
The full press release from Kellogs is here.
According to this report, Gabby Douglas is "represented by Sheryl Shade, the same agent who helped turn Shawn Johnson into a household name."
And here she is this morning on The Today Show.
Gabby says it's so meaningful to her to be the first African American to win the title, and shares details of her congratulatory phone call from President Obama.