2012/12/05   Under The Ring Interview With Barbie

Barbie Blank, better known to wrestling fans as Kelly Kelly, is enjoying life after WWE.

She has a calendar and posters available on her website and she’s doing some public appearances like the one she did on Dec. 2 for Northeast Wrestling at Hudson Valley Marketplace. Blank agreed to do an interview on short notice, so thanks to her and also thanks to NEW for the access.

Phil Strum: Life after WWE, how’s it going for you so far?

Barbie Blank: It’s going good. I’m just relaxing at home. It’s nice to take a break and just be able to live a normal life and being able to do whatever I want to do.

PS: How many years straight were you going at it?

BB: Almost seven.

PS: That must have been taxing.

BB: It was, but I loved what I did. I had so much fun. I got to see the world. I made such great friends. I was very blessed.

PS: What have you got going on now. I know you’ve got the calendar coming up.

BB: Yeah, I’m just kind of doing my own stuff under my real name. My calendar and my posters. Just getting stuff out that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Getting into modeling. There’s a lot of things coming, so we’ll see what happens.

PS: Getting into wrestling for you when you got into it. Obviously, you weren’t in it previously. You were in modeling. What kind of a transition was that and when did you really start feeling comfortable?

BB: I was going to school for broadcast journalism, so when I got the call from WWE, it was kind of out of the blue, but I thought it was a wonderful opportunity. I used to watch when I was younger. I embraced it with everything I had. I gave it 120 percent. I was just so blessed. I love being able to transition from modeling into wrestling.

PS: What was the first day of wrestling school like?

BB: It was hard. A lot of the guys, in particular, who had been working their whole lives to get where they were, looked at us like ‘why do these girls get that?’ ‘why did they get this opportunity?’ It’s hard, but I got used to it. I kind of took that with a grain of salt. I proved it in the ring and proved that I wasn’t there to be just another pretty face. I wanted to wrestle.

PS: And you showed a lot of improvement over your time there.

BB: Thank you.

PS: When did you feel really comfortable with what you were doing in the ring?

BB: I’d have to say it probably took a few years. You want to master your craft before you actually get in there. I was kind of just thrown out there. I was training on the road and I was doing everything I could. You’re always learning. I’d say it took a few years, but I still got nervous before my matches. I would be having a heart attack. That never went away.

PS: Anybody, as you were growing as a wrestler, who was helpful to you more than others?

BB: Tommy Dreamer was a really great influence. He always, even when I started, Day One, in ECW, he really took me under his wing and showed me the way. What not to do and what to do. He was a great help. When I first started wrestling in ECW, he really helped us out on our matches. He was great.

PS: Any desire to get back in the ring now?

BB: You never know. Right now, I’m kind of healing my neck that was kind of a problem for a while. Just resting up and you never know.

PS: And doing stuff like this (autograph signings).

BB: Yeah. I love getting to meet the fans. Meeting all the little kids makes my job even more worth it. It was great to do this stuff and be able to reach out to them and say hi, and tell them I appreciate them.

 

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  2012/11/13   Barbie interviewed by her fans

Barbie was interviewed in her official website Barbie’s Site for her Barbie Babes and she answered the best questions in her site.

You’ll read next up here her answers.

– What is your favorite match you’ve ever been a part of? (User: Blue Barbie)

It would have to be when I won the WWE divas championship from Brie Bella.

– Who is the best wrestler in your opinion in the past and present? and, who is the best Diva in your opinion in the past and present? (User: Omnia – Name: Omnia – Age: 14 – Country: Egypt)

Past- Stone cold Steve Austin, Present- The Big Show
Past- Nicole and Brie Bella, Present- Layla

– What is your favorite wrestling move? (User: TheBarbieBombshell)

The k2 of course!

– Now you’ve left WWE what career/project would you like to pursue next? (User: Amy_KellyKellyFanForever – Name: Amy – Age: 26 – Country: England)

The sky’s the limit!

– Which WWE Divas have you stayed in touch with since you left? (User: stylishbarbiex – Name: Dalya – Country: United Kingdom)

A lot of the girls actually who are still in WWE and past WWE divas.

– Do you plan on wrestling anytime soon? Maybe at a show or in WWE or in another particular promotion? (User: cj2100)

You never know!

– Do you plan on making movies? (User: tobsterdibiase)

I’d love to be in a scary movie!

– When will Barbie Blank 2013 Calendar come out? (User: Packerboy16)

Any day now! It will make a perfect gift for Christmas.

– What do you do to keep fit? and, do you have a daily or weekly workout routine? (User: Happy17)

To keep fit I try to eat at home as much as possible. My boyfriend and I love cooking home cooked meals and barbecuing on the grill usually with chicken, steaks etc with vegetables and salads. For my workout routine I usually do yoga 4 days a week and cardio on the days I’m not doing that.

– In an interview you said that you were once a Brunette in 10th grade and you didn’t like it, why did you change your mind? (User: ItalianStallion)

I changed my mind now, because in tenth grade I basically dyed it black with dye straight out of a box. I never went to a salon and professionally got it done lol. So now I was ready for a change and wanted to see how it would look! I’m loving my hair as a brunette and its perfect for fall. Who knows maybe around summer ill go back blonde.

– If you had a chance to travel around the world, where would it be? (User: Lisazawai – Name: Lisa – Age: 16 – Country: Malaysia)

I’ve been blessed enough to already travel around the world.

– How old is your pet, Daisy? and, when did you adopt her? (User: Alan91 – Name: Alan – Age: 21 – Country: Spain)

Daisy is 3 years old and I got her from a Pomeranian breeder.

– What will you ask Santa Claus for Christmas? (User: Alan91 – Name: Alan – Age: 21 – Country: Spain)

Hmmmmm some new Christian louboutins ;)



  2012/09/20   Brianna & Nicole (The Bella Twins) Thoughts on Kelly Kelly

Thanks to Daniel from, Kelly Kelly’s official fansite barbara-blank.net for posting this interview of Brianna & Nicole A.K.A Former WWE Divas The Bella Twins, where they talk about Kelly Kelly and have some very nice and sweet things to say about our girl.  You can purchase the interview HERE! And below is what the girls had to say about Kelly.

Interviewer: Any other good stories from Florida? Any that stick out?
Nicole: I dunno, there was alot of good times. We had alot of fun too with Kelly Kelly, that’s when we became really close with her, cause she’d come in and train every now and then when she was off the road. I’m trying to think, no stories really stick out.

Interviewer – She was already on the road then?
Nicole: Yeah, she was already on the road so on her days off, cause she lived in Tampa, she’d come in and train with us, then we’d all go out and have fun and we became really close.

Interviewer – Did you know Martin when he was alive?
Nicole: Yeah, he was awesome. He was super sweet, he was nice. He let us borrow his surburban and have Barbie take us around, he was just he was awesome.

Interviewer – What’s Kelly like outside the ring?
Bri: Well thats her.. P
Nicole: My PIC, my bestie. Um, I mean i’m gonna say she’s amazing, she’s one of my best friends and we honestly like she became a sister, like we travelled besically my whole time together exepct when she switched to Smackdown for a little bit which was hard we both were like crying, it was so sad. But other than that, she’s seriously like a sister like we both were comfortable with each other so quick, we can tell each other all our secrets, we can lay in bed and laugh about a show and seriously then lay in bed and not talk about anything.
Bri: Yeah.
Nicole: It was just really nice to always have her around, she’s a very happy girl.
Bri: Barbie’s the best too, she has a nickname for everybody. And it was amazing like she just come in and like, she called me RiRi, she’d be like RiRi and i’d be like yay, i have a nickname. But everybody like, you’d just hear these little nicknames everywhere and that was Barbie she’s just so sweet with everyone and so cute. Like a your little puppy you take everywhere.
Nicole: Yeah, she is.

Interviewer: You guys started with another angle on NXT with Kelly Kelly & Naomi her rookie, for Nikki to turn heel again. What are your memories on that?
Nicole: Yeah that was mainly me going heel first. I loved it, I always loved working with Barbie and so, that was fun for me. It was nice because she was who i started working with first as a heel so it was very comfortable for me. cause i knew Barbie was here for me and she’s such an amazing babyface to me she’s one of the best.
Bri: She is.
Nicole: She will sell her heart out for you and I appreciated that.

Interviewer: Beth Pheonix, you actually worked with her and Kelly Kelly in a tag match, memories of those matches?
Nicole: Actually, probably some of our best tag matches. Espicially live events, Beth another person who was so easy to work, you could literally go out in the ring and she would tell you the whole match and she was amazing to work in the ring but it was kinda cool cause you had Barbie who’s a girly girl and then you have Beth Phoenix who’s like the strong girl, it was like so cute to have them in a tag match together. Yeah, those are some of my favorite matches.
Bri Yeah it was alot of fun working with them, probably my favorite.

Interviewer: Who’d you guys travel with, besides each other?
Nicole For a long time it was Bri and I, Barbie and Eve, that was like we had our Diva Car pool.
Bri Diva mini van.
Nicole: Yeah mini van and we did that for a while then it in the end it was just us two and Barbie. But all the time it was us two and Barbie and then it was Eve for a while.

 

 

  2012/08/20   In Video: WWE Summerslam Kickoff Party Interview

  2012/08/19   Kelly Kelly interview at Summerslam Axxess

 
Arda Ocal did a brief interview with our girl Kelly Kelly during Saturday’s Summerslam Axxess. He ask’s her about some of the gifts she has gotten from fans, where she notes alot of flowers and Hello kitty being her favorite she gotten two hello kitty beenie babies during Summerslam Axxess this year. She also notes she would like to be used more in the WWE, as well as become a 2x Divas champion. You can wath the video above.