Nikki Cross Talks Hardships Of Wrestling And Body Positivity
Photo Credit: WrestleZone, Nikki Cross at NXT ‘Takeover: Chicago’ 2018
WWE superstar Nikki Cross recently appeared on the Swerve City Podcast (transcriptions via Post Wrestling), where she joined Isaiah Scott, Teasy, and Big Swole to discuss the hardships of keeping up an image in wrestling, maintaining a positive body image, and more.
Check out some of the highlights below:
On hardships of trying to look a certain way:
I think guys and girls can relate to this. Like you know, the body image and you go through all these — in my early twenties, going through all these crazy diets and just ended up doing these stupid diets that would like — they just weren’t healthy. Mentally or physically they just weren’t healthy.
On body positivity:
One of the best things [of] the last few years was just getting away from that and being like, ‘I’m a sexy b*tch.’ I would always look at photos of myself because I would wear the two-piece and the only thing I would look at would be my stomach and I wouldn’t look at anything else. It didn’t matter — anything else.
On embracing yourself:
I would just always look at that and it was such a paranoia so it was just the getting away from that and the last couple of years, it just — I think as you get older, you realize, ‘Embrace yourself’, as cheesy as it sounds but like, it’s true. I’m sure guys, everyone goes through it in this industry.
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