Brie Bella may not be close to returning to WWE, but she’s already thinking about what that comeback will look like. During her injury layoff, the WWE Hall of Famer revealed she’s considering making changes to both her gear and on-screen character before stepping back into the ring.
Speaking on The Nikki & Brie Show, Brie explained that being sidelined has given her something wrestlers rarely get: time to reflect. Between physical therapy, family life and the slower pace of recovery, she’s found herself looking at her WWE career from a different perspective.
“Even though I’m busy doing, you know, stuff with the kids and stuff with Bryan and Nikki and still have to travel here and there, it does still give you a lot of time to think and kind of find new inspiration, new purpose, almost like a way to reinvent yourself.”
That doesn’t mean she’s planning to completely abandon the Brie Bella fans already know. Instead, she said she’s thinking more about making small changes that could freshen up her presentation.
“And I’m not saying, like, I wanna reinvent Brie Bella or reinvent, you know, Brie at home. But there are little things that I think you look back at, you know, what you were doing and you’re like, ‘Ooh, I have time now to kind of relook at it all.’”
Brie then revealed she’s already been discussing those ideas with Nikki Bella, including whether it’s finally time to update parts of her WWE character.
“Like, what would I switch? Should I switch up with my gear? Should I, you know, switch up with my character? Her and I were chatting about this yesterday because I’m like, ‘When you asked me that question, it just brought up so many things.’ And I started to think, like, I don’t know, do I reinvent little things?”
One idea she’s seriously considering is leaning more into a side of her personality that fans haven’t always seen on WWE television. While she knows people associate her with a laid-back, organic lifestyle, she feels there’s a much edgier side of Brie that hasn’t always come across in her character.
“Like, we all know who I am. Like, I’m just very organic, hippie type of a person, but there’s also this edginess to me. And sometimes I don’t show this edginess as much as maybe—like, I’m like, I kind of do but kind of don’t. And I’m like, ‘Do I bring that in?’
So there has been a lot of, like, fun things, you know, in the last two months that I’ve sat back and thought with this injury.”
While WWE hasn’t locked in a return timetable and Brie continues working through rehab, she’s already looking ahead to what comes after she’s medically cleared. Whether it’s new gear, a slightly different attitude or bringing out a side of her personality fans haven’t seen before, it sounds like the extra time away has given her the opportunity to rethink more than just her recovery.
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