Carmella Explains How Developing Drop Foot Led To Her Creating ‘Snatch’

Carmella recalls dealing with drop foot.

The former WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion recently launched her ‘Snatch’ platform, where women can  discuss all things related to fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood. This comes after Carmella suffered through several complications after the birth of her first child, including developing drop foot.

While speaking to ABC News in a new interview, Carmella was asked about developing drop foot and how it led to her creating Snatch.

“Yeah, so I wrestled for over 10 years in the WWE. I never had an injury. I gave birth to my son, and I got what’s called deep fibular nerve damage behind my right knee. I was in labor for three days, so it was a lot of pressure. I (got) what’s called drop foot, which basically, the nerve that controls the top of your foot. I was just kind of hobbling along for a couple months after having my son. So that was definitely difficult to add that to this new life that I was experiencing, being a new mom, dealing with hormones, dealing with this new body, dealing with this new baby, and just trying to figure it all out all at the same time. So it was definitely difficult and I just think it’s something that we don’t talk about a lot. We just think; you have a baby, you move on and life is great. But there’s also a lot of complications that can come with becoming a new mom. Not that I’m trying to scare anyone, I just think it’s important to have these conversations and talk about them and normalize it and know there are things that are going to happen to your body and that’s okay. You’ll get past it. Again, that’s why I created Snatch to be able to open that line of communication.”

Carmella also recently spoke about her WWE exit coming while she was dealing with the aforementioned complications. You can read more about that here.

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