Torrie Wilson Says WWE Wanted Her To Use Body Paint for Infamous Bikini Contest Segment

Torrie Wilson recently spoke with The Wrestling Classic (h/t Ringside News) and discussed her infamous bikini contest segment with Sable at Judgment Day 2003, noting that WWE wanted her to use body paint instead of a bikini and she pushed back. She also commented on her WrestleMania 20 evening gown match. Highlights of her comments are below.

On her bikini contest segment with Sable: “It’s like that nightmare where you wake up in the middle of the night and you’re at school naked.”

“Believe it or not… I negotiated that swimsuit from paint. They wanted me to do paint, and I was like, I’ll do crystals.”

“I don’t know how I did that yet.”

On her WrestleMania 20 evening gown match: “Just to even be on the show at WrestleMania is a big deal… back then when it was one night, there’s a lot of people that don’t get that opportunity.”

“We would be like waiting in Gorilla about to go out, and they’d be like, ‘Girls, your match just got cut from 8 minutes to 4.’”

“And that’s including entrances, which is crazy.”