Natalya Discusses The “More Than Pink” Campaign, Losing Her Two Front Teeth, Working As A Heel, More

Channel Guide Magazine currently has an article up featuring an exclusive interview with WWE Superstar Natalya.

You can check out the full article HERE and some excerpts can be found below.

Related: WWE Star Loses Two Front Teeth at Live Event (Photos)

On the “More Than Pink” campaign that WWE is promoting with the Susan G. Komen Foundation:

The cause hits close to home for the third-generation performer, as her grandmother passed away from breast cancer at the age of 65.

“I wish there was more research, and that we could have done more for her when she was going through it,” Natalya said. “That was when I was 18. I feel like, all these years later, to be a part of WWE and have them giving back the way they are. We are raising a lot of money and changing people’s lives. By raising awareness and raising money for research and helping support people going through it and their families, this is something I wish we had more of when my grandmother was going through it.

On losing her two front teeth recently at a WWE event:

“I tend to have a lot of problems with those two teeth, because when I was younger I was in an accident on my bicycle and that impacted them,” she said. “So they have always been really loose. It was their day. There is a dentist on every corner in Las Vegas, so basically I finished the match and worked through it. I had great girls I was in the ring with. I’m OK. I’m really tough. I’m not sure when I hurt anymore. I was back the next day. I just couldn’t stop laughing after it happened. I was like, ‘Oh my God! My two front teeth are out.’ Of course I grabbed Renee Young and said, ‘You’re coming with me to the dentist to handle this.’”

On getting to work as a heel on Smackdown Live:

“It’s challenging,” Natalya said. “What feels comfortable to me is being good. What feels normal to Nattie is the way I’ve been portrayed. I was vulnerable on TV, sympathetic where I have had moments where I have felt overlooked and sometimes where I naturally slipped in the babyface role because that is who I am. I kind of realize that with the struggling to prove myself and prove what I can do, I feel it made the fans sympathetic, and they could relate to me.

“Now I’m on this other side of the coin as a bad girl. It’s challenging because I’m still trying to convince the audience I’m bad and not to like me. When I come out, I want them to boo me. There are times when I come out they don’t boo me. I don’t want them to cheer me because then I feel like I’m not doing my job.