A recent guest of Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions podcast, Becky Lynch revealed how she compromises being a mom with her road life as a pro wrestler in WWE.
She admitted that although being a mom gives her more important things to worry about, she’s able to enjoy wrestling even more than before: “I feel like I’m hitting my stride. I’m having more fun now than I ever have, I think that it’s many reasons. I have more freedom and I’m having fun with that. I think I’m a little bit more confident. Also one thing, and I think the biggest thing is, it’s not everything in my life right now. So wrestling used to be everything in my life that if anything went wrong, I would just focus and dwell on it until my head would explode. It would just become this, this constant anxiety. Now, I don’t have time to do that, I’ve got something more important. Once I’m done, I have to go back and be a mom and I can think about [wrestling] for a while when she’s gone to bed. But, I have to ultimately concentrate on something else. “
The RAW Women’s Champion revealed that she was very afraid of being a mom at the beginning: “Being a mom is great. Oh my god, it’s way better than I ever thought it was going to be. Oh, my God, I was terrified. Before, I was terrified. You know, it’s like, ‘Everything’s gone. My freedom, my life is over. Am I gonna be able to pick up where I left off? Am I going to be able to get back in shape?’ All of these things that you worry about. ‘Am I going to be a good mother? Like, what if I don’t bond with her?’ All these things, but she’s the best. I smile every day because of her. We take her on the road everywhere with us. I don’t really sleep but I just drink more coffee, and yeah, just got the best of both worlds now and it makes everything better.”
H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
