WWE Raw star and a former WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella who is also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently talked about the pressure she had in WWE of being an entertainer and to be in the right shape.
Carmella had been a lifelong WWE wrestler who started her professional wrestling career in WWE and still going pretty strong in the promotion. She started her career through NXT and she came to the main roster back in 2016 after the second brand split of WWE.
Carmella Discusses The Pressure She Has While Working In WWE
She worked on Friday night Smackdown for quite a long time and she had been pretty successful on the blue brand of WWE. She went on to win the first ever women’s Money in the Bank ladder match in 2017 and also cashed it in to win the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship.
In 2021, she went on to win the WWE women’s Tag Team Championship along with Zelina Vega and dropped the title at WrestleMania 38. Somehow she lost her main event push but it looks like she is finally regaining it back. We hope she becomes a main event star in WWE once again.
Carmella who is also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Yahoo.com where she talked about the pressure she had in WWE of being an entertainer and to be in the right shape. She said;
“There’s a lot of pressure to look your best and be fit and healthy, and I think I was sort of doing it more in an unhealthy way. When I look back, I realize I was just so strict with my diet and restricted myself from eating anything and everything that wasn’t vegetables, fruit and lean meats, and that’s just sort of how I lived my life.
“When I started out, I had so much pressure like ‘I have to be fit, I want to have a six-pack, I need to keep this up.’ I mean as a wrestler, you need to have a specific physique and look a certain way, and that’s kind of what set me apart too is I always had a defined body and things like that. I tried to keep that up.
“For a long time I was always lifting heavy weights and tearing my body apart on the road with wrestling. Then when I’m home, I’m lifting weights, and I was just feeling so weak, my body was hurting so much. I did it just because that was what I thought I needed to do because I wanted to project this image. I want everyone to know that I’m fit and I’m healthy and I have a six-pack and things like that.”
“I look back and I kind of laugh at it because at the point I’m at now I do it for all the right reasons and not because I want people to perceive me a certain way. At this point in my life, I never weigh myself anymore. I do not care about that. I’ve finally gotten to a point where I don’t want to restrict my diet. I don’t want to tell myself I can’t have something. And I feel like now this is the best I’ve ever looked and the best I’ve ever felt because I just am doing what’s right for me and eating intuitively.”