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| Birth Name(s) : Joanie Laurer |
Date of Birth: December 27, 1970 |
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Married
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Partner:
Sean Waltman |
| Profession:
Athlete |
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Full Chyna Biography
| Joanie Laurer entered the World Wrestling Federation in 1997 as Chyna. Her physical strength, speed and personality have launched her into superstardom of the sports-entertainment industry. She was the first woman ever to compete in the Royal Rumble Match in 1999. Also known as the Ninth Wonder of the World, Chyna redefines the word "feminine" with every flex and body slam. |
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Additional Chyna Biography
Joan Marie "Joanie" Laurer (born December 27, 1969) is an American actress and retired professional wrestler. A former bodybuilder, she is best known for her career with the World Wrestling Federation between 1997 and 2001, where she was known as Chyna and nicknamed The Ninth Wonder of the World (with the eighth wonder being André the Giant).
Joanie Laurer left home at age 16, and went to Spain under a scholarship with the United Nations. By 1987, she had graduated high school in Spain. She spent the next five years at the University of Tampa and graduated in 1992 with a degree in Spanish Literature. During college, she also studied French and German and can hold a conversation in either language. She originally wanted to use her knowledge of foreign languages to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Drug Enforcement Administration. Subsequently, she joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to Costa Rica to teach literacy.
Laurer met World Wrestling Federation employees Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a bar in 1997. Struck by her appearance, they helped her get into the WWF. She made her WWF debut on February 16 at In Your House choking Marlena. Her original role in the company was as Chyna, the laconic bodyguard of Triple H and later D-Generation X. She often got physically involved in Triple H's matches during his feuds with Goldust, Mankind, Owen Hart, and The Rock by executing a low-blow (an uppercut to the crotch). At WWF No Way Out of Texas in 1998, she became the first woman to be stunned by Stone Cold Steve Austin.
At the same time, Laurer's appearance in the November 2000 issue of Playboy attracted the unwanted attention of Right to Censor, a strait-laced group of wrestlers who lampooned the Parents Television Council. Shortly after, Laurer was announced as injured after a double team piledriver at the hands of Ivory and Val Venis.
Laurer's in-ring career since then has been very limited. She sang and wrestled at an Ultimate Pro Wrestling event, and was scheduled to appear on a talk show hosted by Jonny Fairplay on a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) pay-per-view. She did not appear.
In 2002, Laurer joined the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster. She made her first appearance at the New Japan Thirtieth Anniversary Show, refereeing a bout between the Steiner Brothers and Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kensuke Sasaki. In September and October 2002, she wrestled four matches for the promotion. After losing to Masahiro Chono on October 14, 2002, Laurer wrestled her final match on October 26, 2002, teaming with the Fake Great Muta in a loss to Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kenzo Suzuki.
In 2001, Laurer was a guest on a special celebrity edition of Fear Factor. Each contestant played for a charity of his or her choice, and she received $25,000 for the Freedom Families Scholarship Fund. Her competition included Brooke Burke, David Hasselhoff, Kelly Preston, Donny Osmond, and the winner Coolio. She also appeared on the celebrity game show, Hollywood Squares, where she was introduced as 'Joanie Laurer' of New Japan Pro Wrestling. She also appeared on MTV Cribs showing off her home.
Laurer has modeled nude, notably for Playboy; the first issue which featured a pictorial of her was one of the ten best selling issues in the magazine's history. In 2002, following her departure from the WWF, Laurer also appeared in a Playboy adult documentary, entitled Joanie Laurer Nude: Wrestling Superstar to Warrior Princess, which followed Laurer on-set of her second Playboy nude pictorial.
Since 2003, Laurer has had a tumultuous relationship with wrestler Sean Waltman. They were engaged for a period in 2003, then broke up, then became engaged again, a pattern which continued for the next two years. In 2004, it was claimed that Laurer and Waltman made a sex tape during a vacation to China earlier that year, but Laurer did not go to China with Waltman. Eager for a repeat success, the company that released Paris Hilton's celebrity sex tape obtained the footage, edited it, and released it under the name 1 Night in China. The video sold over 100,000 copies, with both Laurer and Waltman earning a share of the profits, and boosted both their careers.
In early 2005, Laurer appeared on The Surreal Life, with house mates Da Brat, Jane Wiedlin, Adrianne Curry, Christopher Knight, Marcus Schenkenberg, and Verne Troyer. She remains good friends with Adrianne Curry, and made a brief cameo on her reality show My Fair Brady. On a February 2007 edition of the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show, Sean Waltman claimed that Laurer also previously dated Ed "Brutus Beefcake" Leslie. In March 2005, Laurer re-appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where Stern noted that not only did Laurer look better than she did during her previous visit, but her entire general appearance and attitude were much better.
On February 14, 2007, Laurer and Shane and Sia Barbi led an animal rights protest at UCLA. The trio led other protesters to the door of the Neuropsychiatric Institute, a scientific lab where they perform tests on monkeys. The group had to be split up by the police, but not before a violent protester, who was nowhere near Laurer or the Barbi twins, shouted obscenities and attempted to harm the workers. |
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