Celeste Beryl Bonin AKA Kaitlyn is an American bodybuilder, model, and of course a professional wrestler. She had a couple of stints in WWE
On September 7, it was announced that Bonin would join season 3 of NXT, under the ring name Kaitlyn, with Vickie Guerrero as her storyline pro.
The former Divas Champion terminated her WWE contract in January 2014 and left the company for a few years before returning to compete in the Mae Young Classic in 2018.
Bonin was the guest on The Sessions with Renee Paquette in a recent episode where she explained the reason why she left WWE back in 2014.
“I left wrestling because I thought I was gonna get fired, I felt less and less relevant, I had so much shame. I gained all this weight and my body was giving me every signal that I was just not OK, emotionally, mentally, I just had so much hatred for myself,” Kaitlyn explained.
The 35-year-old admitted that she was in self-destruct mode during the time she had requested release from WWE. She also noted that she didn’t like how she left the company 8 years ago.
“I had so much resentment towards myself and that projected outwards and like, I was in self-destruct mode. So, I just asked for my release on a day…it was just like a really shi**y day. I was so disassociated with so much from that day, because it was just so painful. I didn’t understand why I was doing these things, I just was like, ‘I don’t know how to do what I wanna do’ and for a long time, I hated the way that I left.”
Kaitlyn has had a decent amount of success both as a bodybuilder and a professional athlete. We take a look at her accomplishments in both fields.
Bonin won the John Sherman Classic Bodybuilding Figure and Fitness Championship and secured fifth place in the Arnold Classic NPC Figure Class D Competition.
In the Defiant Pro Wrestling Promotion (DPW), Kaitlyn won the DPW Women’s Championship on one occasion. In Slamforce Africa (SFA), she won the SFA Women’s Championship once. During her time in WWE, she has held the WWE Divas Championship on one occasion and also won season 3 of NXT.
Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked her #5 in the 2013 PWI Top 50 Females.
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