Ahead of they had been well-known, retired WWE stars Nikki and Brie Garcia labored as Hooters waitresses — and the revel in gave them a leg up within the ring, they instructed The Submit this moment.
After they had been 19, the an identical twins, who went through the wrestling identify The Bella Twins, had been servers on the chain’s Project Valley, San Diego location.
“Working there, you really owned your feminine energy. As a waitress, you have to have confidence to go up to strangers and talk. But we had to have thick skin and not only confidence, but you had to own it,” mentioned Brie.
“You’re going up to men who are excited and want to get crazy. So we knew how to keep them in line … and we all set boundaries for ourselves … and didn’t take any crap from our customers. So it really taught me at a young age just to stand up for myself and to own it, own the room and own a table. And I think it really helped me with pro wrestling to take that attitude into that.”
The brunette beauties, 40 — who at the moment are on a podcast excursion, “The Nikki and Brie Show: Moms Gone Wild Tour” and might be at Town Vineyard within the Meatpacking District on July 20 — additionally unmistakable their methods for upselling their male clientele.
“Squeezing your cleavage. You’d be like, ‘Do you want more fries with that?’” Nikki dished.
“Yeah, we got really creative. Like with the lingo, even just saying, ‘I hope you had a Hooter-fic time,’” added Brie. “You just came up with this really cheeky verbiage as waitresses there. And let’s be honest, everyone loves seeing the Hooters girls doing the YMCA and hula hoop — tips were going up.”
On their podcast, “The Nikki & Brie Show,” the Garcia ladies get “really real and raw” with their fanatics, as soon as dubbed the Bella Military, however now known as the Bonita Military. [The girls are half-Mexican and half-Italian, and bella and bonita mean pretty in Italian and Spanish, respectively.]
On one episode, the pair, who live to tell the tale the similar oppose in Napa, CA and gave start 22 hours aside, talk about training their 3-year-old sons’ T-ball workforce.
“We took T-ball coaching very serious. It was crazy because it’s hard work. And you realize you have all these little eyes looking up at you like, ‘What’s next?’” Brie, who stocks a son, Pal, and daughter, Birdie, with her husband, pro wrestler Bryan Danielson.
“My son, every time he would hit the ball, he would go run after it and fight to get it back, like he wanted the ball he hit,” mentioned Nikki, who has a son, Matteo, together with her husband, Artem Chigvintsev, her partner on “Dancing with the Stars.”
The California-born duo, who had been raised in Arizona, joined Cameo a couple of months in the past to backup investmrent their wine label, Bonita Bonita, which they introduced in 2019.
“We’re like, ‘Okay, we need to buy more grapes for wine,’” Brie, who has 8.5 million Instagram followers, explained. “You know, grapes aren’t reasonable.”
They ship birthday needs and pep talks to fanatics by the use of the platform, the place celebrities file customized video messages for a charge, however have already needed to frame slam a number of fetish requests.
“Someone was like, ‘If you could put the phone on the ground and have bare feet and act like you’re stomping it,’” mentioned Nikki, who has 10.6 million followers on Instagram.
“And people ask me a lot to get into my wrestling gear.”
“Yesterday I got this request, and they’re like, ‘Can you roast your sister in like a minute video or something?,’” added Brie.
“And I was like, ‘Denied.’ I don’t want to roast my sister.”
