An Interview with Torrie Wilson

As she tries to come back from a painful injury, Torrie Wilson - our favorite WWE Diva - recently gave the following interview:

KOTR: How did you get into the wrestling business?
TORRIE: I moved from Idaho to Los Angeles to pursue acting and fitness. I used to compete in fitness competitions. Anyway, my boyfriend at the time was a huge wrestling fan. He took me to my first wrestling show, which was a WCW show. We happened to know someone that knew all the wrestlers, so they got us backstage. Kevin Nash was back there, and he’d seen me in a fitness magazine.

He approached me and said, ‘Hey, you look like you belong in wrestling. Would you be interested in doing a three-month storyline with us?’ I was like, ‘Sure, I’ll try it out.’ I fell in love with it.

KOTR: You mentioned fitness competitions and the attention you pay to your body. When did that become important to you?
TORRIE: In high school I had an eating disorder. I was anorexic for about two-and-a-half years. I just decided that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life. All I did was think about food and how I was going to starve myself and stay skinny.

KOTR: What made you become anorexic in the first place?
TORRIE: I went to a modeling agency in Idaho and they told me I needed to lose a few pounds. Then they were going to take me to New York to meet with some other agencies, and they said I needed to lose some more weight before I went up there. To me, if you tell me to lose 10 pounds, I think, ‘Twenty would be better.’

That’s what happened. In that industry you get positive feedback for being so thin. It all just snow-balled. “I’m extremely sensitive. I’d read way too far into everything. It was ridiculous. Someone would tell me I was looking healthy and I’d take that to mean that I looked fat.

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