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Natalya On Recently Losing Two Front Teeth, Working As A Heel On SmackDown, Total Divas Returning
- Updated: October 7, 2016
Source: Channel Guide Magazine
Natalya recently spoke with Scott Fishman of Channel Guide Magazine to promote the new “More Than Pink” campaign from Susan G. Komen and WWE. The full interview is at this link and below are highlights:
Recently losing two front teeth in a match:
“I tend to have a lot of problems with those two teeth, because when I was younger I was in an accident on my bicycle and that impacted them. So they have always been really loose. It was their day. There is a dentist on every corner in Las Vegas, so basically I finished the match and worked through it. I had great girls I was in the ring with. I’m OK. I’m really tough. I’m not sure when I hurt anymore. I was back the next day. I just couldn’t stop laughing after it happened. I was like, ‘Oh my God! My two front teeth are out.’ Of course I grabbed Renee Young and said, ‘You’re coming with me to the dentist to handle this.'”
Working as a heel now on SmackDown:
“It’s challenging. What feels comfortable to me is being good. What feels normal to Nattie is the way I’ve been portrayed. I was vulnerable on TV, sympathetic where I have had moments where I have felt overlooked and sometimes where I naturally slipped in the babyface role because that is who I am. I kind of realize that with the struggling to prove myself and prove what I can do, I feel it made the fans sympathetic, and they could relate to me. Now I’m on this other side of the coin as a bad girl. It’s challenging because …