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WWE’s Rhea Ripley Not Having Kids Soon For Specific Reason

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The WWE life makes it difficult for Rhea Ripley to have kids and the powerful Australian has explained why.

It has been a huge 2024 for Rhea Ripley both on-screen in WWE as well as in her personal life. While Ripley has dealt with a shoulder and orbital injury this year, she also headlined the Elimination Chamber PPV in her home country of Australia and went on to beat Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 40.

Away from the ring, the 28-year-old Rhea Ripley married fellow Australian wrestler Buddy Matthews, who works for AEW and was previously known as Buddy Murphy in WWE. The couple was married in June while Ripley was out of action with a shoulder injury.

As a married woman, Rhea Ripley may want to have kids one day, but she told Jazzys World in a recent interview that it might have to wait several more years due to the WWE lifestyle.

“Exactly and like if you think about it this way as well a lot of us we get motherhood taken away for a long time. I’m still young, yes, but I worked for WWE. It’s very demanding. I probably can’t have kids for the next five to ten years because I don’t want to have to bring them on the road and put them through that.”

“I’m not good at that, but then you look at someone like Becky Lynch, who did go and have a kid and did come back and is still the badass, the man. She is herself and she’s a great mother while she does that. She brings Roux on the road every now and then and she’s absolutely killing it. But yeah, we get a lot taken away from us or pushed back, and I don’t think people really realize that.”

Former WWE Women’s Champion Becky Lynch and her WWE wrestler husband Seth “Freakin” Rollins had their daughter Roux in December 2020 and brought her to many WWE shows over the years because she traveled with them for many years. Lynch has been away from WWE for the last six months after letting her contract expire.

Rhea Ripley Proud Of Women’s Growth In WWE

In the same interview, Rhea Ripley spoke about how happy she is that WWE women are now taken seriously for the athletes that they are.

Being taken for granted, I think. The women in WWE, we’ve come a very, very long way. We’ve overcome a lot of obstacles that were put in the way, and it’s been growing each and every year. I think that was the biggest obstacle just getting people to sort of take us seriously.

For the longest time, people joked about us being the toilet break, which is just plain disrespectful, especially when the women go out there and we leave everything that we have out in the ring, and we go just as hard as the men do. So don’t treat us with that disrespect, so we’re making people realize that we can go just as hard as the men if not harder.

After being taken out by Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez in the NXT parking lot, Rhea Ripley is out of action with a broken orbital bone for an undetermined amount of time. However, there is hope that Ripley can return soon although no specific timeline has been given.

H/T Fightful