The Bella Twins continues to be path-breakers cum inspirations for the professional wrestling fans as well as The Bella Army. 2020 WWE Hall of Famers Brie and Nikki Bella have just released their co-written “Incomparable” memoir. The book is available at a sale price via Amazon at this link.
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Nikki Bella then spoke with People Magazine yesterday top open up about her painful past, which was written, in details inside the book. She disclosed two life-changing incidents that unfortunately happened to her when she was just a teenager. Nikki Bella remembered the horrifying details that she was raped at an age of 15 and then again at age 16. These happenings have impacted her relationships in the future.
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The former Divas Champion revealed that she was raped at the age of 15, by another high-school student who she “thought was a friend,” as written in the book.
She was then raped again, the very next year, after getting drugged by a college-age man. As noted several times on Total Bellas show, Nikki Bella always had trusted issues with men those she had dated in the future years.
“There is the horrible offense in the moment, and then the shame and blame that follow and feel almost worse than the original pain,” Nikki Bella wrote in the book. “When something like this happens to you, you understand the blame-the-victim mentality, how easy it is to feel shame rather than anger, how easy it is to feel like you could have stopped it yourself.”
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Nikki Bella proceeded to say that how much negative effect these two incidents continued to have on her life,
“When that happened to me, I immediately just felt so ashamed and blamed myself, and that’s what made me want to keep it such a secret,” the soon-to-be-mom told People Magazine. “And keeping that a secret and blaming myself, I started to lose my confidence. I started to disrespect myself. And then the relationships I got into at a young age, I let other people disrespect me and felt like, that’s okay, this is what I deserved.”
Being a part of the Women’s Evolution in the WWE and inspirations to many around the WWE Universe, Nikki Bella wished to share her story to reveal to the world how women can be strong overcoming the bitter past.
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Speaking about that, she brought up the context of dating John Cena which changed her view upon life. Without naming her ex-boyfriend, Nikki emphasized on how the WWE franchise player taught her about respect,
“When the #MeToo movement happened, I was just like, ‘Oh my gosh,'” Nikki Bella recalled. “I feel like, if I’m having these younger women look up to me, maybe I can help them and have them not hold onto this as long as I did. It wasn’t until I was 28 and in a relationship where someone started to teach me how to respect myself. That’s how long I held on to things and felt I had no boundaries. And I’d always look at Brie like, ‘Oh, she has boundaries, she treats herself with such respect. How do I not have this?’ And I knew why. But I held onto it for so long. When I look back at just decisions I made based off of it, I wish I could have heard my words now as a 36-year-old woman then, and be like, ‘You’re going to be okay.'”
While promoting the book, both Brie and Nikki Bella hinted at how the readers can have a look at what life was like for them while growing up. From loss and abuse to addiction struggles, relationship obstacles, and more have dragged them along en route to their success. Nikki Bella hopes that their story would help people to get rid of fears,
“I hope whoever reads the book will throw on whatever imaginary cape they dream of and say, ‘I’m the hero of my own story and will conquer whatever I want to do!’ ” Nikki said.
