Ronda Rousey Responds to Reports of Her Leaving WWE to Start a Family

Ronda Rousey was interviewed by ESPN and she sort of responded to the recent reports that she’ll be taking time off from WWE after WrestleMania to start a family.

“I honestly don’t know why [anyone] feels like [they’re] an authority to speak on the plans for my uterus. If I responded every single time the world speculated what I was doing with my womb I would not have a free moment in the day.

“I really don’t feel like I should have to respond to that kind of thing. It’s my vagina, my life, keep the speculations to yourself. Leave me and my reproductive organs alone.”

But she continued:

“I’ve not kept it a secret that I would definitely want to start a family. But how do you go about doing that? I love this way more than I thought that I would. So do you just keep going until you just happen to get pregnant? Or should you stop and go try and get pregnant? Or is going and trying to get pregnant putting yourself on the spot and then you’re less likely to get pregnant? I’ve never had a baby before, I don’t know these kinds of things.

“It would be kind of cool to just keep acting and then one day, ‘Hey, surprise twist, I’m pregnant.’ That would be fun. There’s a lot of things up in the air. A lot of decisions that we’ve gotta make as a family. I’m trying to figure it out as I go along.”

Rousey also said that she originally thought she would be “pretty much just a gimmick that got old after a couple of months.”

“I didn’t think I’d be any good as an actual wrestler. I thought I would be pretty much just a gimmick that got old after a couple of months.

“I really wanted to get good at it and I needed to get time and practice. So the more that I do it, the more that I realize that I really love it. The more that I love it, the more I really, really want to be good at it. The more I really, really want to be good at it, the more that I really want to be there so I can get even better at it. I have that type of personality.”