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>> Everybody's so different.
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> Well I just want to say thank
you guys so much for coming to day and
being a part of the no make up photo
shoot with the legendary Sophie Holland,
she's incredible.
I appreciate you guys being a part
of it and being vulnerable,
putting yourselves up we've never done
anything like this before, so I'm so
grateful you all wanted to be a part
of it and I guess we'll just like,
I just want to talk about it a little bit.
Like how, was it scary?
How did y'all feel?
We've never done anything makeup.
>> Honestly, it was super emotional for
me at least.
Like I started crying.
>> It just takes a lot for us to just
>> Yeah,
I started crying coming off,
because I was like, wow I did this.
I feel accomplished that I,
I mean these are gonna be shown.
Everyone's gonna see it to the world.
So I think it like we all deserve
a round of applause cuz it's
truly amazing that we all embraced it.
>> Yeah,
I don't really like to wear makeup,
I'm more comfortable when I don't have to.
So I was really excited when I found out
that it was a photo shoot with no makeup
cuz I feel like a lot of times with us
being in the business that we're in,
it's a lot of pressure.
Of having to wear makeup in photo shoots
when we were in the ring or we're doing
interviews is so much a part of our lives
so I was excited to actually be in a photo
shoot where we could highlight just
be uncomfortable in our own skin.
>> I think that the energy here was
just so positive even if I was scared or
nervous or anything like that,
it was all kind of taken away by just so
much empowerment and support and
positivity here from everybody here and
everybody in the crew and
everything, and Sophie in general.
All that nervousness and
insecurity was kind of wiped away with
the support which shows us how powerful we
can be to each other People might say that
having glitz and glamor hair make
up is like a form of protection.
So Ruby I kind of wanted to ask you,
you're covered in tattoos and
some people might say that that's
sort a form of protection.
How do you think that you
would respond to that?
I've tried to use makeup in
the same way that I've tried to use
tattoos as just a form of expression.
And I've tried to just kind of portray
that as much as I possibly can.
I just want to encourage
everyone to express yourself as
long as it's in a healthy way and
that you're not hurting anybody that any
form of expression, is good expression.
From tattoos to make up
to hair to anything.
>> Would you ever,
it's a question for anyone.
Go on TV without hair, make up,
extensions, spray tan.
Do you think you would, would you go on
TV without any of the blitz and glam?
>> I'm so scared.
>> Scared?
[LAUGH] Why, why are you scared?
>> Always extension and
makeup gives me confidence, but
without that it's so hard to-
>> That's crazy to hear cuz you're so
pretty, you're gorgeous naturally, like
>> Have you seen the photo?
We took [CROSSTALK]
>> A photo.
>> Like flawless like without makeup.
Anything's like,
>> Yeah,
>> She looks like she's an offense.
>> [LAUGH]
>> It's the truth.
>> Yeah it is.
>> I'm trying,
always trying to be superstar, but
if with that makeup and yeah, it gives me-
>> Confidence.
>> Yeah confidence,
>> Makes you click.
>> Yeah so
much change my mind to fighting.
>> Yeah, that's so
surprising to hear, like you seem so
confident and just like,
>> Always I'm so nervous about myself.
>> Why, what are you nervous about?
>> I have confidence about wrestling
career, I always makes, I have to give.
I have to keep my confidence.
I'm always trying read that.
But sometimes my confidence
going down [CROSSTALK]
>> But there's things about you that so
many people wish that they can
have like your smooth skin.
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> Hair, yeah, just be
>> Yeah.
>> It's crazy though to see
somebody that you like kind of like
I've admired your work and
you for such a long time.
And I've always thought you must
be the most confident women in
the world because she's one of the best
in the ring and she's also gorgeous.
You would almost when you see that
you don't ever think that you
had somebody like that has any kind of,
you think you're always very confident.
Which I think makes you human,
everybody has insecurities but in other
people's head who admire you know that,
>> Yeah,
>> Like you are one of
the best in the world you know,
>> But
I do think today was a step
in the right direction for
me with like embracing everything like
that but I'm still working on it.
So it was it's great to like hear
everyone's side of it cuz I'm like
maybe I can like take
a little from here and there.
>> For me and
it took me a while to get to this point.
A while to get to where I fully
love myself exactly as I am.
The color of my skin, the way I talk,
the way I walk, who I am,
where I come from, and even the way
that the hair grows out of my head.
>> It was a body image for me.
Body image was a huge thing
that I have really overcome.
Within the last couple years
the industry I was in before wrestling,
it was fitness and bodybuilding.
So when I felt most confident
was when I was on that stage and
it was a 24 hour window
where I had to look my best.
And my hair was done, my makeup was done,
I was on stage, I was lean, shredded.
And I always wanted to keep that look,
that image of what do I look like in
the [INAUDIBLE] on stage and then
a week went by and a month went by and
I would be in this transformation
stage where I was not happy.
And I would get down on myself.
I'm too fat.
I'm too skinny.
I'm too lean.
I look like a boy.
I'm too muscular.
It was just, I didn't know who
to satisfy my coach myself,
social media, and it finally clicked where
it was like I need to be comfortable.
In my own skin, my body image and
what I feel best and
how I perform my best now and
right now is the happiest and
healthiest I have been
as far as body image.
And I know I've been we've talked way
back when you first started you were in
CrossFit and you had similar
situations with body image and
I haven't really touched
base with you since then.
>> Yeah,
I've had a lot of body image issues even.
I ran track in high school and
it was always taught to me from I don't.
Maybe it was just in my own head of
the smaller you are the faster you run.
So I reached a plateau where I couldn't
lose any more weight and to me,
I thought it was fat.
Like I thought that like the word fat in
my head was just I just thought that I was
too big, and everyone else you look fine,
you look fine.
And I got an ice.
I became bulimic.
I got so desperate and so
had such bad body image issues that
I started throwing my food up and
it wasn't until CrossFit was when
women truly you embrace your muscles
>> That's and you embrace sexy right?
>> Yes you embrace being a woman and
being strong as a woman as the first
time that like I experienced that and
I fell in love with it, but
then you get to new environments.
Now people want to say, you like a man?
Yeah, and we've had these
conversations and it's like
>> So much
>> Well excuse me, if as you're saying
I'm a man and I look like a man
because I have more muscles than you,
well that kind of says more
about you than myself.
>> Yeah.
>> So but we've talked about that,
I know that you've
experienced that a lot too.
>> Yeah, every single day on social media.
It's I hate social media for
it because it's just poison.
>> That rips you apart.
>> It is.
And everyone thinks they can
like pick on everyone because
they're hiding behind the screen, but you
shouldn't cuz that stuff to hurts people.
Even though like we might have
empowered ourselves and like,
we have confidence where we don't
really care too much about what you say
like that still rides in
the back of your head sometimes,
like every single day I
get compared to a dude or
I get told that I look like a man, or that
I'm not feminine or that I'm disgusting.
I'm gross like everything.
And luckily like over the years I've
gained the confidence within myself
to not really care what people say.
Because, if they were saying this, and
I was in the same spot that I am now,
I want to say even,
like two years ago, I probably
would have done something stupid,
because that would affected me so, so bad.
And I have I've done a lot
of bad things in the past,
being depressed.
I've cut myself and
all out over all this stuff.
And It's just social media is just so
venomous.
And you shouldn't really care
what people say about you because
we're all beautiful in our own way.
You have to have people around you.
That are positive and uplifting, instead
of people that just wanna drag you down.
And they're uncomfortable
about themselves, so
they drag you down with them.
>> So we had this meeting last week to
kinda talk about what we're doing today.
I had no idea you were
gonna be doing this, right?
And it was literally ten minutes
prior the call that I had,
I saw that Tweet that someone had tweeted
you and to me I'm looking at you as like
you're this badass leg, cool look, like
we have obviously very different looks.
I get people coming at me on
the daily about wearing make up or
not wearing make up, my dark circles.
I have this sort of glamorous look right?
So to see the Tweet that you got
comparing, I don't know if anyone here
seen her but there was a picture of Rhea
with makeup and a picture of her without
makeup, two complete different photos,
two completely different angles and
there's thing like your nose looked
different or something like that,
and you responded by saying
it's two different angles.
>> Yeah when I was younger I definitely
wanted to be like the models in magazines,
I wanted that nice body which, we all get
born with different bodies and I don't
have that body shape but I'm totally
fine with my body shape that I have.
>> Jacked.
>> Yeah jacked.
[LAUGH]
>> I always say that I.
>> Look like really?
>> Yeah, like I want your body.
I want it.
>> [LAUGH] Man, but yeah, I just I wish
I knew that when I was younger but
when I was younger I wanted to be
like the supermodel the skinny tall,
like hourglass.
Body shape but now, I'm just happy to go
to the gym and I honestly think that's
been my best when I'm at the gym and
I'm looking in the mirror and
I got a good pump and I'm like, bam
>> Yeah,
>> I look good [LAUGH]
>> That is a good feeling
>> When I was younger in a similar place
where I felt I was trying so desperately
to fit in to a point to where I
just I didn't have my own identity
until I kinda found wrestling and
that's kind of where I
kinda found myself but
it was only until recently when I took
this time off with my shoulders and stuff.
Where I felt my most beautiful
because I was my most healthy up here.
And I think that's something that
isn't talked about very often
is mental health and is.
And it's just being able to reach out and
seek help and
that that doesn't make you weak,
that that doesn't make you anything but
strong enough to open up to
somebody about it and to know that,
that there are other people out there
like that, I have ADHD depression and
anxiety, and I realized after
I'd kinda opened up about it,
that it's a lot more common
than most people think.
And then, I think that if you
understand that it's okay to get help,
if you're struggling with your body image,
if you're struggling mentally or
physically, or anything like that,
asking for help with your friends,
family a counselor or something,
and it doesn't make you weak,
it makes you strong and
makes you reaching out to somebody,
empowers you and in that way you can
spread that power to other people.
And I think that's want we've
done here with this shoot.
The message is so powerful that we
know that we're about to send, and
it makes it all worth it.
>> I think it's just so important to just
Be who we are, embrace who we are and
like the grass isn't greener like
just do use what you have and
make the most of it and
screw what everyone else thinks.
If it's an unconventional
relationship you're in or,
whatever it is that makes you happy.
Just do it because at the end of the day,
we all have to live with ourselves and
what we're dealing with, so do
>> We have everyone hear
one another which I think is so special.
>> I can't thank you guys enough for like
opening up and just being vulnerable and
sharing your stories and insecurities and
doing this with me today.
>> My God I love it.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Whose muscle is this?
>> Yeah, look at this muscle.
>> [LAUGH]
