Alexa Bliss On How She Deals With Fans Who Criticize Her Appearance

Alexa Bliss has only been on the WWE main roster for a little over a year, but she’s made the most of her opportunities, and she’s the current Raw Women’s Champion. Bliss is set to defend her title against Nia Jax, Sasha Banks and Emma in a fatal four way match at No Mercy, so it remains to be seen if she’ll be walking out with her title, but it’s safe to say she’ll probably be a top star in the women’s division for a while.

Things are going well for Bliss, but she’s had to overcome some struggles in her life, one of those struggles being her battle with anorexia. Overcoming her eating disorder made her stronger both mentally and physically, and during a recent appearance on Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia, she said that she’s made it a point not to let negative comments about her appearance get to her.

“I’ve fully accepted the fact that if I’m going to do a career like this, I have to be willing to take criticism, because it’s a part of the job, you know? Any Instagram thing I post, someone’s going to say something, I know that. Anything on Twitter, someone’s going to judge whatever I do, whatever I say, whatever I look like, I understand that. But I also know that if I were to ever read into that and slip back into an eating disorder, my body will not survive another one. I’ve been told that multiple times with how my body reacts to it, I will not survive another one.

“If I’m a little more heavier, if I’m ever a little thicker, that’s fine because that means I’m stronger. It means I’m not worried about not waking up in the morning, I’m not worried about the amount of calories I’m eating. There’s so many more things to life to worry about than that. Like they say, ‘An eating disorder will always be in the back of your head, you’ll never get rid of it.’ Once its there, its always there.”

Alexa Bliss also noted that she has big goals for herself in WWE, but one of the biggest things she wants to see happen is for the women to main event WrestleMania someday.

“I want to be one of the longest reigning champions and for our women as a whole, even if I’m not in the match, I want us to have a Main Event at WrestleMania. That’s what I want so bad more than anything even if I’m not in the match-I mean I would love to be in the match let’s not get that twisted, but if we could have a Main Event on WrestleMania, that would be the ultimate thing.”