A former WWE star says the promotion asked her to lose 10 lbs immediately after signing.
During a recent interview with TMZ Sports, former WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn was asked if she faced any pressure at the start of her career with the promotion to look a certain way. She noted that officials asked her to lose 10 lbs immediately after signing. She also noted that coming from a bodybuilding background, she was in pretty good shape when she started with the company.
“Any woman that was in the Divas Era during that time will probably tell you the same thing. As soon as I got hired, they told me to lose 10 lbs,” the former WWE star said. “It was like immediate. When I tried out, I was coming from competing on a bodybuilding stage. I was in pretty good shape. I wasn’t like stage lean or anything, but I was in pretty good shape.
Kaitlyn established herself as the Hybrid Diva in WWE
Speaking further, Kaitlyn noted that she struggled to categorize herself in WWE with her physique and said she felt the creative team also struggled in that area. She wasn’t as lean as most female stars and didn’t look as strong as someone like Beth Phoenix. She was right in the middle, and that’s why she started calling herself the Hybrid Diva.
“It’s just because I had more muscle, and it was interesting about like standing out because I felt like this. That’s why I started calling myself the Hybrid Diva. I started that on Twitter, and I was starting to tell the commentators to get that on air because it’s truly how I felt. I wasn’t like this supermodelly type in the way that my body looked, and also how I acted, and in real life, like who I was,” the former WWE star said.
“I was athletic and kind of just like a tomboy, and so that didn’t resonate. Then I also wasn’t Beth Phoenix. I was like in between. So I struggled with that a lot because I didn’t know how to categorize myself, and I don’t think that the creative team knew how to categorize me,” she said.
Read More: Top WWE Star Is Current Favorite for Roman Reigns’ SummerSlam Opponent — Report
If you use this transcription, please credit the source, H/T WrestleZone, and link to this page.
