Female Ex-Champion Says WWE Asked Her To Lose 10 Pounds
A former WWE star just made a shocking revelation about her time in the company.
Kaitlyn worked with the WWE between 2010 and 2014. She started in Florida Championship Wrestling before she got her opportunity to shine in NXT. She won season three of NXT and eventually made her way to the main roster. Kaitlyn didn’t look like a lot of the women on the main roster at the time. Although she came from a bodybuilding background, she was bulkier and more muscular than the other women at the time.
Despite this, Kaitlyn was able to find success in the sports entertainment juggernaut, and she eventually won the Divas Championship. No matter how successful she was, her weight always became a topic of discussion that seemed to hold her back. Eventually, she parted ways with the Stamford-based promotion.
WWE asked Kaitlyn to lose 10 pounds
During a recent interview with TMZ’s Inside The Ring, Kaitlyn revealed that as soon as WWE hired her, they asked her to lose ten pounds. She noted that she had more muscle than the other women in the WWE locker room, which helped her stand out. Therefore, she started calling herself the Hybrid Diva. This also meant that the former Divas Champion struggled to categorize herself, which hurt her creative push.
“Anybody like any woman that was in the Divas era during that time will probably tell you the same thing. Like as soon as I got hired, they told me to lose 10 pounds. So, it was like immediate. And when I tried out, I was coming from competing on a bodybuilding stage. Like, I was in pretty good shape. I wasn’t like stage lean or anything, but I was in pretty good shape. 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 used to, I was starting to tell the commentators to get that on air because it’s truly how I felt. I wasn’t this supermodelly type in the way that my body looked and also how I acted and in real life, like who I was. I was athletic and kind of just like, you know, a tomboy. So, that didn’t resonate and then I also wasn’t Beth Phoenix. I was like in between and 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. So, I’m like, let me just try to create something different, something new. And, you know, I’m a hybrid of these two kind of like avatars that the woman had that made up the women’s division at the time. But there was a lot of confusion within me of like what is my wrestling style? How should I come off on screen?”
The former WWE star further added that this perception always made her feel like she had to be skinnier. As a result, she hated watching herself on TV because she didn’t like how she looked.
“There was always that voice of like I need to be skinnier, I need to be leaner. And I also didn’t like watching myself on TV because I was like, ‘I could be leaner, like I’d look a lot better.’ Because I didn’t have this like exuding confidence in my physique, it showed in my posture and how I held my body and how I wrestled. Like I wasn’t, I didn’t allow myself to be super expressive because I was self-conscious. And so, It was really hard to watch myself back on television to get better. You know how you watch your matches so you can improve? That was like devastating to watch myself every time because I just didn’t like not only how I looked, but I didn’t feel like there was any flow in my movement. There wasn’t artistry. It was kind of like blocky.”
It remains to be seen if Kaitlyn will appear on WWE TV in any capacity in the future.
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