Nikki Bella

Nikki Bella is interesting to me precisely because she's had two careers under two names. As Nikki Bella she became one of WWE's most recognizable women, and the Hall of Fame nod confirms that wasn't a fluke. But I think the smarter move was pivoting into television personality work and rebuilding her brand around her real name. Wrestlers who manage that transition outside the ring are the exception, not the rule. To me she reads as someone who understood early that the character and the person are separate assets, and she's spent her career monetizing both without letting either swallow the other.

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Name (English)

Nikki Bella

Name (Japanese)

ステファニー・ニコール・ガルシア＝コレース

Reading

すてふぁにー・にこーる・がるしあ＝これーす

Born

November 21, 1983 (age 42)

Origin

San Diego, California, United States

Height

168 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler / television personality

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

University

Grossmont College

Awards & achievements

• Women's Image Network Awards
• WWE Hall of Fame

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nikkigarcia/
• Xhttps://x.com/NikkiAndBrie
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki%20Bella
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3876871

Tags

• California
• professional wrestler
• television personality

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.