15. Beth Phoenix

15. Beth Phoenix

At the tender age of just 11-years-old, Beth Phoenix born, Elizabeth Kocianski participated in a coloring contest the WWF/WWE held winning her tickets to a live event. Little did she know that years later she would be walking down the same ramp with thousands of fans cheering her on. Beth Phoenix has become a stale across a multitude of different WWE platforms from an active wrestler Smackdown to NXT as a color commentator, Phoenix gets the job done. Her Glam Slam Submission is one of the most unique and inescapable and her Glam Slam finisher would leave even the toughest wrestler dazed.

In May 2001, Phoenix entered the independent circuit where she found success in multiple pro-wrestling platforms. Phoenix joined Far North Wrestling (FNW) where she was the only female on the roster and won the Cruiserweight Championship against two male opponents. In 2006, Beth made her WWE Raw debut but broke her jaw the next month forcing her to be temporarily sidelined. Since then, Phoenix has become a 3x WWE Women's Champion, 1x WWE Divas Champion, and the youngest female inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at the age of 36.

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Did You Know...

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Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.

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Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.

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Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.

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Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.

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