Former WWE and TNA star Brooke Adams recently shared her thoughts on why being openly sexy in women’s wrestling now seems frowned upon.
Speaking during a WrestlingNewsCo interview with SoCal Val, Adams embraced her sex symbol persona as a vital tool for career growth and fan connection. She realized its impact when she saw young girls at a gas station mimicking her signature style.
That moment, she said, showed her they were doing something right and gave them motivation to keep going. She now wonders when it stopped being acceptable to want to be sexy. She said, “I don’t know. I wish I knew. I can’t stand it. And I get it a lot because now I have kids. I’m now, I’m a mom.”
“They’re like, ‘Oh, now all of a sudden I really can’t.’ And I’m like, “Why? I am not standing here butt naked in front of my kid, you know, prancing around oozing or whatever. What I prance around is confidence. Confidence. And my daughter’s going to be confident.”
“And when she’s old enough to see all the things that I’ve done ’cause she hasn’t, you know, she’s still very, very young. But I don’t understand why all of a sudden you can’t be sexy anymore. You can’t lean into being a sex symbol. Well, it’s wrong wanting to be a sex symbol?”
She talked about wanting Sable and Tori’s presence, Chyna’s strength, Carmen Electra’s vibe and Jenny McCarthy’s. “Honey, I grew up wanting to be Sable. And I’m like, Sable was it for me. I’m like, ‘Yes, but give me Chyna vibes.’ But I’m so little.”
“Just I want that vibe, but I want to be sexy, and I want to be like Tori, and that was just Carmen Electra was my vibe. The Jenny McCarthy’s were my vibe. Like, and I don’t understand at what point when we couldn’t all lean into that, you know? Like, it just became, like, a thing, and now everything’s, like, really dark.”
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