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‘Just the girl next door’

Charlotte Flair strips naked for ESPN’s Body Issue

- — Brad Hunter

WWE superstar Charlotte

Flair is baring all!

The 32-year-old member of one of wrestling’s royal families has stripped down for a special photo shoot for ESPN’s Body

Issue magazine. She joins 16 other jocks, including Zlatan Ibrahimovi­c and former world top golfer Greg Norman in the buff. Flair has won six titles since joining the WWE. She comes by her squared circle skills naturally: Her dad, Ric Flair, is considered among the greatest wrestlers of all time.

Charlotte Flair told the magazine she doesn’t want to be seen as a tall, sexy, blond wrestler. She wants to be seen as an athlete who can inspire young girls.

She also revealed that in her earliest days in wrestling, she struggled with body image.

“I wish I was more like my character. In character, I am the queen. I am strong. I am confident, sometimes cocky,” she told ESPN. “I’m hard to beat. Out of character, I am a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a best friend and just the girl next door that likes Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.”

But it wasn’t always that way. “When I first started in the WWE, I had a really hard time because I didn’t look the part,” Flair said. “I had the athleticis­m, but I didn’t have the extra swag and the glam — what my character Charlotte has become today.”

She added: “But when I’m in that ring, I want the audience and little girls and children and adults to see me as the athlete I am, not just a tall blonde that’s a WWE Superstar. “No. I am all athlete, and that’s important, that my looks have nothing to do with what I do in the WWE.”

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