- Being a WWE superstar is a mindset.
- It's about confidence.
- Focus. - Inner strength.
- But to find that, we've all had to overcome personal setbacks.
- Now each of us is being paired with a young woman...
- Who'll take 10 weeks out of her life...
- To transform herself inside and out...
- With the help of WWE.
- These women aren't training to become wrestlers.
- They're here to push themselves...
- Refocus their energy...
- And discover the inner confidence they need...
- To begin a new chapter in their lives.
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL
- I'm Stephanie McMahon,
chief brand officer of WWE.
I have selected 10 special women to go on this journey.
This is Carly's story.
My name's Carly Cimino. I'm 25 years old.
Growing up in my house was really great when I was a child.
It was me and my mom. She was always like my security.
HER MOM DIED A WEEK AFTER CARLY GRADUATED COLLEGE
After my mom died, my dad moved,
so he wasn't even in the house with me.
We have each other, but I don't feel like we have each other.
I was really suffering alone,
and I just kind of like let myself go.
Believing myself went lower and lower on the ladder.
I didn't follow through with anything.
I felt like a depressed chicken without a head.
Like, I didn't know-- I didn't know what to do.
I still don't know what to do. I can't picture the future.
- Carly's mother was her anchor.
Without her, she's been adrift.
But WWE superstar twins Nikki and Brie Bella
are ready to use their own fighting spirit
to help get her fired up and moving forward again.
- My sister and I have been so lucky as to have each other
and to really support each other
and help build each other's confidence and courage
WWE HEADQUARTERS And we love the fact
DAY 1 TRAINING BEGINS that we can support
other women like Carly. - Yes.
- Hi. - Hi, baby!
- You got us both. - What the hell!
Oh. Right now, I don't know where I'm at, you know?
I feel like I just wake up every day.
- I sleep.
- Right now I'm not working. Like, I'm not doing anything.
Like, I'm trapped in, like, a bad dream.
- You know that one thing I love about working out when you feel pain?
You're conditioning your body in a way to grow muscles and all that.
- Yeah. - But I always relate that
to pain I feel mentally. - Yep.
- So pain from death.
You have to feel the pain. You have to fight the pain.
But once you get through the pain,
all of a sudden you're gonna become stronger.
- My mom was awesome.
I want to be the woman that she thought I would be.
I just don't have her to push me, and I don't hear her voice.
You're right. Like, mentally, I feel like this does help
'cause it distracts you for a second.
- It does. - You, like, go for the fight.
- Right, and there's-- - Sweat is like tears, you know.
- Yeah. - I feel like it detoxes you
not just physically but mentally.
- Yeah.
- Okay, Carly, this is just the start of your journey.
You're gonna have a lot of moments where you're gonna want to give up.
You're gonna feel really weak and scared and stuff,
but just find that inner strong woman.
- I will imagine you and my mom's face.
- Yes. - I think that's enough of strength
that could give me strength. - Right?
- I agree. Yes. - 'Cause you have it there.
You really do. - Thank you.
- You can see that she just needed someone to reach out to her
and just be like, "Okay, you need help, and we're gonna do this."
TEN WEEK JOURNEY
- And go!
Here we go. Quick, quick!
Move fast, move fast. Pump the arms.
- Keep that core tight.
- Doing cardio, weight training,
I haven't done any of this in years.
I didn't love it at first, but it's growing on me.
- Breathe. - Bouncing off those ropes,
doing flips, I mean, I challenge my mind
to do things that I never thought I could physically do.
- Here we go, here we go. - But it wasn't easy,
and it didn't come quick.
REVEAL DAY
WWE PERFORMANCE CENTER
- Ladies and gentlemen,
Carly Cimino! CARLY'S DAD
- Yeah, Carly!
That's a superstar, baby!
- Before doing this, I was hoping
that I would get a little happier, maybe feel alive,
but in these last 10 weeks,
I have felt the best I've ever felt in my entire life.
- Yay! Give me a hug.
- You did it!
- I came here-- - Wow!
- Look at you, mamacita.
- Like a disco queen.
- Yes. You pulled out the guns. - I did.
- Can we see that again? - Like, just one gun.
- Whoa. - Yeah, girl.
- I never had an arm muscle in my life, I don't think.
- Whoa. - Thank you.
- So how do you feel?
- I mean, I was in a dark place,
and I think that I was more depressed than I even realized.
You know, I lost my mom
a week after I graduated college. - Yeah.
- I mean, I don't think anything can prepare anybody
for anything like that,
and I learned that I have to open up in order to heal.
That's everything. - Yes.
- We have someone here. So your dad came.
- Your dad.
- Come up, Dad.
- Anybody seen my daughter?
- I know, right? How amazing does she look?
Does she look amazing?
- I love you.
10 weeks is a long time, man, let me tell you.
- I bet. - Let's--Here, you...
- Here, you come right here in the middle. I'll give you...
- I said I wasn't going to cry, but...
When you lose somebody like my wife out of the family,
we all lost the glue,
and everybody reacted and handled it in a different way,
and we were all vulnerable.
I was proud of you before this.
Um, even more proud that you stuck it out.
I can't tell you how much I-- you know how much I love you.
- Thank you.
- I think it's amazing to see from the beginning
someone who just held everything in and wouldn't let the world in
to now just be so open and own her truth,
and I just--gives me goosebumps
because, as a mom, I know her mom is just smiling.
SEND OFF
- Wow. You look amazing. - Thank you.
- You really do. - Thank you so much.
I feel good. I do. - Yeah?
- It's weird. - Yeah.
- I don't think my dad's ever seen me so confident.
- Did he say anything? - He apologized
because he didn't realize that he wasn't there for me
as much as I wanted him to be.
That was the first time I've ever heard him say that,
so I just felt connected to my dad again.
It was really nice.
- That's awesome. - I don't know what I would have done
if this didn't happen, you know?
It just forced me. It forced me to face everything.
- It's a great takeaway. Great lesson. - Yeah.