Rhea Ripley recently appeared on WWE’s “After the Bell” podcast and discussed how the appearance of her WWE character has changed since her debut in the 2017 Mae Young Classic.
Ripley defeated Charlotte Flair to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship on the inaugural night of WrestleMania 39.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On how her look has evolved: “I wanted to cut my hair for a long time, but I was so scared. It’s such a scary thing, I always use my hair to hide behind, but one of the guys at the PC was like, ‘I think you’d rock short hair. Just do it.’ And I was like, ‘Alright, I’m gonna do it.’ So I cut my hair, and gradually it got shorter every week. Every NXT show, it got shorter and shorter. But I think I just finally started accepting who I was, and not caring what everyone else thought of me.”
On her personal confidence being shown more in how she is portrayed: “I think it’s just more… growing up in general. It’s sort of portrayed into my work, and the Rhea Ripley that you see. I narrow it down to confidence, it’s all about confidence.”
