Nikki & Brie Garcia Reveal Why They Aren’t Using Their Married Names After Dropping ‘Bella’

One time after Nikki Garcia and Brie Garcia announced that they’d beryllium dropping the “Bella” name and going by the “Garcia twins,” they dropped the archetypal “new chapter” occurrence of their re-branded podcast, The Nikki & Brie Show. The ladies kicked disconnected the occurrence by opening up astir the sanction change, and explained wherefore they aren’t utilizing their husbands’ past names (Chigvintsev for Nikki and Danielson for Brie) present that they’ve gotten escaped of ‘Bella.’ “There’s a crushed wherefore we didn’t privation to determination successful our adjacent section with our joined names,” Nikki explained. “We emotion our husbands and they volition ever person that, particularly connected our driver’s licenses and everything legal. But we sat and had this speech and a batch of radical were like, ‘You know, I inactive don’t deliberation you accidental Artem’s past sanction right!’ That’s a existent pugnacious one!”

She added that choosing to spell by “Garcia” besides felt similar a bully tribute to their father, who they’ve reconnected with successful caller years. “Our dad, close now, is doing backmost flips,” Nikki gushed. “He’s ace happy. Why not spell backmost to our roots? We emotion our Mexican culture, truthful let’s spell backmost to Garcia and however everyone knew us.”

Nikki and Brie started utilizing the Bella sanction erstwhile they signed with the WWE successful 2007. The moniker was inspired by their grandfather, who ever called them “[my] Bellas.” Their sanction alteration comes pursuing their determination to portion ways with the WWE, which they announced connected March 14. “Brie and I are astir 40, we’re going to beryllium 40 successful November,” Nikki explained. “We’re mothers, we’re entrepreneurs, we’re enforcement producers, we’re starring now, we’re hosting shows. So erstwhile our contracts with the WWE came up, mutually, we each knew like…we conscionable needed to caput into this adjacent chapter.”

Nikki and Brie Garcia astatine an event. (Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

The twins were mainstays successful the wrestling assemblage from 2007 until 2019. In 2019, Brie announced she had retired, portion Nikki was sidelined with a career-ending injury. They were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame successful 2020. Although the ladies returned to the ringing for the 2022 Royal Rumble, they’re wrestling days are intelligibly down them, and they person plentifulness of different ventures to look guardant to!

In summation to their podcast, Nikki and Brie besides person a vino postulation and manner brand. Nikki is besides big of the USA Network amusement Barmageddon. In their March 15 podcast, the sisters besides teased a imaginable crook to world television, arsenic they admitted they missed sharing their lives with fans. They antecedently starred connected the E! shows Total Divas and Total Bellas.

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