Carmella: Good looks holding me back in WWE

WWE prima Carmella believes she has to enactment “twice arsenic hard” due to the fact that of her “pretty” face.

During an quality connected her fiancé’s “After the Bell with Corey Graves” podcast, Carmella (née Leah Van Dale) was asked astir NXT 2.0 prima Mandy Rose’s recent comments astir wanting much “respect” for her work, alternatively than her looks.

“Good luck, due to the fact that erstwhile you’re pretty, that doesn’t happen,” Carmella said, admitting the concern “fires maine up” due to the fact that her workfellow is simply a talented wrestler.

“When I got signed successful NXT, I retrieve Bill DeMott said, ‘You’re going to person to enactment doubly arsenic hard arsenic everyone other due to the fact that you’re pretty,'” Carmella recalled.

DeMott is simply a erstwhile WWE wrestler, cause and trainer, who resigned from the enactment successful 2015 implicit allegations of misconduct.

“I retrieve being like, ‘What? That’s crazy,'” Carmella said astir her past speech with DeMott.

“‘You’re going to person to enactment doubly arsenic hard due to the fact that radical aren’t going to respect you due to the fact that of however you look’. And it conscionable blew my mind, and I remembered thinking, ‘Okay, noted and situation accepted’. That’s what I did.”

Carmella’s astir caller wrestling gimmick has played disconnected her looks arsenic she has declared herself “The Most Beautiful Woman successful each of WWE” during backstage appearances and matches.

“No substance what, I’m ne'er going to get the respect that I merit due to the fact that of however I look and that’s conscionable however it is.” Carmella said. “If I didn’t look similar this and I had the aforesaid matches and aforesaid career, radical would beryllium similar ‘Carmella is amazing, we emotion her.’ Because I look however I do, I’m not going to get the respect that I deserve.”

Carmella announced her engagement with Graves implicit the play connected societal media. She posted a achromatic and achromatic PDA photograph successful Graves’ arms, portion she showed disconnected her pear-cut diamond ring.

The couple, whose narration has been documented connected “Total Divas,” has been dating since 2019.

Carmella precocious moved from WWE Smackdown to Raw.