Lexi Kaufman, AKA Alexa Bliss, is an extremely popular professional wrestler in the world of WWE wrestling. At 29, she’s already worked up to main event status with a shocking and memorable gimmick, following several unsuccessful gimmicks and sometimes in development.
But how much do you know about the former creepy main eventer? If you’ve found yourself asking this question, you’ve come to the right place. This article will walk you through a brief guide to the biography of Alexa Bliss.
Who Is Alexa Bliss?
Alexis “Lexi” Kaufman was born in 1991 to Angela and Bob Kaufman in Colombus, Ohio, and is a natural athlete. Despite her small frame (she currently stands at five feet one inch), she competed in track, gymnastics, softball, and kickboxing at a young age.
Alexa Bliss has opened up about her adolescent battle with an eating disorder, which became so severe that she almost lost her life to it. It was bad to the point where she was surrounded by five doctors a day, and she estimated her weight at around eighty pounds.
She overcame the struggle by turning to fitness and competitive bodybuilding. It’s likely that the highly-regimented (but still nutritious) diets of bodybuilders helped her regain her relationship with food, little by little.
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Straight To The Big Time
While her main interests were other athletic adventures, Lexi remained a lifelong fan of the WWE. After college, one of her trainers mentioned that the WWE was having a tryout near her. She scraped together a video of herself performing some athletic feats and got a call-back to come in and try out.
She largely attributes her success in the audition to her gift of gab, saying, “I just started talking, and I am a talker. I just started talking about my family watching wrestling. I started to talk about the knowledge I had of wrestling, storylines, and everything like that.” From there, she got her 30-day in-ring try-out in Florida with no prior experience.
Alexa Bliss’ Journey In WWE So Far
When she first appeared on the scene on NXT in 2013, Alexa Bliss had something of a fairy gimmick going. As a “pixie princess,” she came to the ring dressed in a cheerleader uniform, blowing glitter into the audience.
Despite the strange gimmick, she quickly became popular in the division. She feuded with top rising stars like Bayley, Nia Jax, and Charlotte Flair. In 2016, Alexa Bliss debuted on their Friday Night Smackdown program as part of WWE’s main roster (sans glitter fairy gimmick). She competed in various successful singles and tag-team rivals to become one of the WWE stars in the late 2010s.
Alexa Bliss’ Notable Career Achievements
In 2016, as a cocky, “mean-girl” heel, Alexa Bliss won the WWE Smackdown Women’s Championship and defended it several times. In 2017, she shifted to WWE’s legendary Monday Night Raw, where she still makes her home. She quickly became the WWE Raw Women’s Champion and the first woman to hold both titles.
In 2018, she won the Money in the Bank and cashed it to beat Nia Jax and clinch the Raw Women’s championship. Alexa Bliss’s star grew, and she even competed in the first-ever all-women’s WWE pay-per-view. However, she took some time off due to an injury and played a role for some months as a host of an interview segment called “A Moment of Bliss.”
Bliss returned to the main roster in 2019, teaming up with another short wrestler, Scottish star Nikki Cross. The two tag-teamed under a “best friends” gimmick for a while, but it was a hard sell for the audience.
Alexa Bliss found the right gimmick in 2020. To understand this Gimmick, one has to understand the strange and alluring WWE star, Bray Wyatt. The Florida-born wrestler, who died on August 24, 2023, was a confirmed heel (bad guy) in professional wrestling, always playing horror-based characters. He started as a cult leader and played the role of a demented children’s show host who transforms into a monstrous demon, “The Fiend,” who preys on other superstars’ personal lives.
In 2020, The Fiend used Alexa Bliss to get into the head of superstar Braun Strowman — who had an affection for Bliss. After an attack by The Fiend, Alexa began acting creepy, going into a trance-like state at the beck and call of the fiend and performing The Fiend’s finisher, Sister Abigail.
This horror-based persona was a major hit, catapulting Alexa Bliss into main-event status. She combined the grotesque horror of Bray with a level of sexiness, adopting a Harley-Quin-esque look and sometimes even wearing costumes reminiscent of popular horror characters.
In 2021, the partnership between Bray Wyatt and Alexa Bliss was officially ended as the latter distracted the Fiend. The distraction cost the match as Randy Orton defeated Bray Wyatt at the Wrestlemania 37. Soon after his loss, the WWE released Wyatt in July 2021.
Alexa’s new persona has seen her dress like a creepy little girl, kneeling on a pentagram and dripping black goo down her face. Despite releasing Wyatt, the WWE continued Alexa Bliss’s spooky gimmick. In October 2022, Alexa Bliss and Asuka won the Raw Women’s tag team titles against Damage Control.
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What Is Alexa Bliss Doing In 2024?
Alexa Bliss last fought against Bianca Belair on January 28 in the 2023 Royal Rumble event for the RAW Women’s Championship. In May 2023, she announced that she would be out of action for some time as she was expecting her first child.
On November 27, 2023, Alexa and her husband, Ryan Cabrera, welcomed a baby girl, Hendrix Rouge Cabrera. In 2024, the former Women’s champion hinted at her long-awaited return to the WWE. Bliss was last involved with Bray Wyatt and Uncle Howdy in the WWE. With the latter’s return to the promotion as part of The Wyatt Sticks, social media speculates Alexa’s return.
What Is The Net Worth Of Alexa Bliss?
According to CelebritysWorth, Alexa Bliss’ net worth is estimated at $2.3 million in 2023. The 33-year-old wrestler earned an impressive salary of $350,000 per year in the WWE. Outside the ring, she made her mark in the entertainment industry with the popular TV show Total Divas from 2015 to 2018.
Is Alexa Bliss On Social Media?
Alexa Bliss has an Instagram account under her real name, Lexi Cabrera. Her username mentions her WWE link. She has over 6 million followers on Instagram and regularly posts her workout and family pictures and videos.
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She also has an X (formerly Twitter) handle with over 2 million followers, where she posts throwback videos from her WWE days. Just like on Instagram, she posts videos and pictures with her baby and husband on X.
Moreover, Alexa has been a popular philanthropist. Make-A-Wish Foundation, Connor’s Cure, and Susan G. Komen are the charitable organizations she actively supports. It will be interesting to see when the former WWE superstar announces her return to the promotion.
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