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After a storied career, former WWE Superstar Stacy Keibler can now add "Hall of Famer" to her name — and it's a moment she didn't anticipate happening.
The 43-year-old will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, just before the start of WrestleMania 39, taking place over two nights from April 1 and April 2 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
"I never thought I would be in the Hall of Fame, to be honest," she tells PEOPLE. "I was completely shocked when I got the call. I had tears in my eyes." Keibler said she found out when she received an unexpected call from a WWE representative while home in her kitchen.
"When she told me, I screamed, and tears were in my eyes, and I was completely overwhelmed with just gratefulness," Keibler recalls.
Along with Keibler, WWE has announced that Rey Mysterio, The Great Muta and late comedian Andy Kaufman will also be included in the 2023 Hall of Fame class.
Keibler, a former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader, was originally a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) performer. She joined the company after winning a contest to become a member of their "Nitro Girls" dance group.
Looking back, Keibler says she was compelled to enter the competition simply because she was a pro wrestling fan.
"I would go to every show within a three-hour drive from Baltimore," she says. "I drove to Philly, and I drove to New York, I drove to D.C. I was in the stands wearing my NWO shirts and holding my posters."
As she began to take a more significant role in WCW, the company was purchased by its rival, World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly World Wrestling Federation), where Keibler continued to blossom and became a fan favorite after debuting with the organization in 2001.
During her time in the WWE, Keibler was both a hero and a heel (villain) and shared feuds with other female wrestlers such as Torrie Wilson, Trish Stratus and Lita. She also served as a manager to The Dudley Boyz and as an on-screen executive assistant to WWE chairman Vince McMahon.
Since leaving WWE, Keibler competed in Dancing with the Stars, where she finished third during the show's second season, and appeared in episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Psych. "I've entered into another chapter of being a mom, and anyone with three kids knows that that's a juggling act, and it's my full-time job," she says of raising her family. "So I have taken a step back to focus on putting my heart and soul into that," she continues. "Now because I've been a performer since the age of seven, of course, it's also in my heart, but it's just something that I've kind of taken a backseat to that, focusing on something else."
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