5 Things you didn't know about former WWE Superstar Kelly Kelly (Barbie Blank) 

#2 She made her way to WWE through modeling

Kelly Kelly

While many wrestlers struggle for years in the indies just to get WWE to look at them, that wasn't Kelly Kelly's path. Her first contact with WWE came through the world of modeling,

"It was a bikini catalog called Venus Swimwear. John Laurinaitis was friends with the guy who was running it. He was like, 'I need some beautiful athletic models.' My modeling agent was like, 'I'll send you a few of the girls who I manage, who are doing modeling.' He sent over pictures and me and Alicia Fox got hired together actually. He was managing her too and they liked both of us."

Then came the tryout,

"We went and tried it out because we went to Atlanta when we had the tryout and they liked both of us, so we moved to Louisville together. We lived together and we trained together."

It took the two talented performers only several weeks to make their way up to the main roster, "I felt like a baby. Everyone was looking at us like, 'Who are these two?' I felt like a deer in headlights."

The uncomfortable feeling would soon diminish for Kelly Kelly, as she became a regular on ECW and eventually Monday Night RAW where she won the WWE Divas Championship.