How Bianca Belair’s pregnancy announcement at WrestleMania 42 came together
Prior to the main event of WWE WrestleMania 42, Bianca Belair made a surprise appearance by joining Cena in the ring. After thanking fans for their support during her absence, Bianca revealed that she was pregnant.
In a video published to YouTube, Bianca commented on how the announcement came together…
“So, originally I texted Hunter [Triple H] because when I first told Hunter that I was pregnant, he was super excited. He was like, ‘Oh, how do you want to announce it? What about WrestleMania?’
And I was like, ‘Well, let me talk to Ken [Montez Ford] about it. But that would be cool. At least I can still be a part of WrestleMania, you know?’ I was like, ‘But let me think about it,’ because I was enjoying this bubble. I was in a space where I really just didn’t want to announce it.
I honestly just wanted to tell my family and friends and just hard launch a baby maybe. Hell, not even post the baby. I was just like, ‘This is mine. I don’t want to announce it.’ I kind of wanted to be like Ally the Peloton instructor, how she never announced that she was pregnant but was just popping up everywhere. I was like, ‘I really don’t want to post it, you know?’
And then finally we were talking and I was like, ‘Okay, let’s do WrestleMania.’ So I was like, ‘Okay, what about me coming out at WrestleMania with my bump and just opening WrestleMania, and that’s how I announce my pregnancy?’ Well, it’s Mania season, so I didn’t really get a text back for a while because it’s Mania season. They’re busy, of course.
So then I’m like, ‘Okay, well, maybe it was an awful idea. Maybe it’s a no.’
So I was like, ‘Okay, fine. f*ck it. I’ll just announce it on my birthday,’ which is one week before Mania.
And so we got dead set on that. Like, let’s announce it on my birthday. We’ll just post it, and when I go to Mania I can just go around and party around Las Vegas.
And then we were dead set on that, and then Hunter texted me back and was like, ‘Oh, sorry for the delay.’”