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Torrie Anne Wilson Gruner (born on July 24, 1975 in Boise, Idaho) is a fitness competitor and model and performer for World Wrestling Entertainment, using her maiden name Torrie Wilson.

Wilson has found considerable success in both World Championship Wrestling and in World Wrestling Entertainment as a manager and a diva. This success led to her becoming one of several WWE divas to pose in Playboy. Outside of the ring, she is good friends with fellow WWE diva Stacy Keibler.

Modeling

A Boise native, her parents divorced and, at age 10 she moved to the small town of McCall, Idaho. She was painfully shy but she quickly found friends in her school. She quickly found her niche in many school activities including cheerleading and dance, and was very competitive in track and field.

During high school, after her interest in modeling grew more serious, her mother urged Torrie to pursue it. They visited an agency and were informed that Torrie would have to lose weight to actually be considered for jobs. She lost eight pounds, but, in the process, began a four-year-long bout with bulimia.

A few years after her battle with bulimia, Wilson developed an interest in fitness modeling. Torrie thought that this was a more appropriate path for her, and she began working out and building muscles. She decided to enter herself in the 1997 Ms. Galaxy fitness competition and, within nine months, after no experience in the field, she placed 13th. A year later at the same competition she placed first.

Professional wrestling

World Championship Wrestling

Torrie debuted in WCW in 1999. Encouraged with her accomplishments, Wilson moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. She began acting classes and was introduced to an agent, who helped her gain a few jobs including an uncredited appearance on Baywatch. But it was a meeting with Kevin Nash backstage at her first WCW event that landed her a full time job. She worked with WCW as a valet for David Flair, Billy Kidman, Shane Douglas and Kevin Nash and she was the manager for The Filthy Animals until Tygress took over her position in 2000.

World Wrestling Entertainment

She entered the WWF as part of The Alliance during the WCW/ECW Invasion storyline in 2001 where she regularly teamed with fellow WCW performer Stacy Keibler. The two of them made their wrestling debuts in WWF/E when they took on Lita and Trish Stratus in a Bra and Panties match at the WWF Invasion PPV. Despite her relative lack of in-ring experience, Wilson (alongside Keibler and Ivory) regularly feuded with the WWE Divas as well as interfering in matches on behalf of other wrestlers in the WCW/ECW stable. Her interference in a match between Matt Hardy and The Hurricane on a September 2001 editon of RAW, for example, cost Hardy his WWF European Championship .

She turned face amidst the Invasion storyline, when the character began an on-screen romance with Tajiri. This new romance caused Keibler to turn on Wilson and as a result, Wilson defected to the WWF.

When the first ever brand separation of the roster took place in April 2002, Wilson was drafted to Smackdown. Soon after this, Tajiri became very jealous of the attention that Torrie received from other men so he forced her to wear a geisha outfit and appeared to mistreat her in matches. Torrie finally tired of this and during a match, she got onto the announce table and stripped off her clothing. The distraction allowed Tajiri's opponent Billy Kidman to pick up the win. Wilson briefly dated Maven on-screen after this.

In 2004, episode of Smackdown, she was saved by John Cena after she was reprimanded about Kurt Angle`s injury. She was saved again when she had a match against Rene Dupree.

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