Becky Lynch
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433 appearances
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3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 Jan
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At 17. And then by 18, dropped out of college, moved over to Canada, wrestled around Canada, around America, around Japan, around Europe. My visa ran out from Canada. I had to move back in with my mom. And my mom, God bless her, like... She's only ever wanted the best for me. And the best in her eyes was not being a wrestler. Especially back then.
Because what I wanted, what I visualized for myself was... was me being seen on par as The Rock, as Stone Cold Steve Austin, as Mick Foley, as all these lads that I looked up to. But if you watched TV and you watched how the women were booked, there was lots of brown panties matches, there was mud wrestling matches. That wasn't anything I wanted to do.
That was certainly nothing my mother wanted me to do. And so...
Not in the way that I wanted to be. Not in the way that I wanted to be. And so I started looking at the women's promotions in Japan. And then I went over there and I wrestled in Japan. And I got assigned to this advertising agency over there that wanted to promote me as this big-time wrestler. But then when I came home and I had to live with my mom again, she's gone... What's your plan?
What's your plan? What's your plan? What's your plan? What's your plan? Because she always wanted a plan. But with wrestling, and I suppose any artistic endeavor, I genuinely think wrestling is an artistic endeavor. You can't necessarily plan that.
You can have a rough plan, but so much is out of your control. You know, you can work towards what you want. You can't decide when you're going to get on somebody's radar what they're going to be looking for. You know, I think it's the same with, say, for example, an actor. An actor can do the best audition of their life, but they might have brown hair and the person is looking for blonde hair.
And so they see this great audition, but that's not what they were looking for on that day. And so I started to believe that if I looked a certain way, that that would give me, that that was my plan.
That is how I would get there because all these women looked like figure competitors and they were beautiful models and, you know, it was... Just a regular average looking girl with a bit of a pair of biceps on me and decent set of shoulders. But like at the time, you know, there was there was enhancements that were standardly involved in the hiring process.
And I didn't have them, nor did I want to get them.
and uh and and so i thought well if if i have abs and if i'm ripped then if i look in this way then they'll want me and so i kind of compare it to the uh survivor song and on the eye of the tiger and you you change your passion for glory because then my my focus shifted from just how i looked and how that would make if i change how i am to make them want me as opposed to being true to myself.
For who I am.
Well, it didn't last very long because I completely destroyed myself. So I started bodybuilding then. I was like, oh, let me sign up for this bodybuilding competition. And if I can do well in this bodybuilding competition, then they'll see that. just the logic that goes through my head. They'll see that. And then they'll be like, oh yeah, let's sign her.
Like she'll be on a magazine or something and we'll sign her that way.
19.
I was 19 then. And I mean, maybe it would have worked if I committed to it. But anyway, the point was, I didn't know what I was doing. I was with this lad who had never trained a girl before. He was a bodybuilder himself, but he was a giant man. And a giant, giant man and who had done many competitions. And he was training me and my diet, then my diet was all over the place.
And then he put me onto this other guy who gave me this other diet, which then I just became a messiah. And I was trying to wrestle around Japan and all this stuff.
body was just hurting but like I was loving how I looked in the mirror because I had these abs and I was like disciplined and my focus was what I was going to eat and how I was going to train and like I had this then sense of ego like like look at how disciplined I can be I am so much better than everybody because I have this discipline but ultimately I was like dying on the inside because I had no energy hmm
My moods were all over the place. I was like leering at cookbooks of what I was going to eat when this diet finished. And ultimately I ended up not being able to make it past 10 weeks of this diet. There was two more weeks to the competition. I just... The guy who was trying to me suggested a cheat meal, and that was it. Then I just went completely off the rails and couldn't get back on. Wow.
And then that then became an unhealthy relationship with food for years.
Really?
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