The Bella Twins

The Bella Twins
Nikki (left) and Brie (right)
Statistics
Members	Brie Bella Nikki Bella
Billed heights	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Combined billed weight	244 lb (111 kg)
Hometown	Brawley, California, U.S.[1][2]
Billed from	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Debut	October 31, 2008
Years active	2007–2015 (brief split in 2009 and 2014) 2018
Trainer	Daniel Bryan Natalya Tom Prichard WWE Performance Center

The Bella Twins (born November 21, 1983 in San Diego, California) were a professional wrestling tag team. It was formed of twin sisters: Brie Bella and Nikki Bella. They are best known for their work with WWE, where they both won the WWE Divas Championship. On April 30, 2012, their contracts with WWE expired and they left.

They returned to WWE on March 11, 2013 and became part of the main cast of the reality show Total Divas made by WWE.^[3] They also got their own spin-off series, Total Bellas,^[4] and were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021.^[5] They left WWE again in 2023, retired from wrestling and now appear as the Garcia Twins.^[6]

Books

• Incomparable (2020)

Movies and TV

Film

Year	Title	Roles	Notes
2014	Confessions of a Womanizer	Erica and Sally
2015	The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!	Nikki and Brie Boulder	Voice performances

Television

Year	Title	Roles	Notes
2002/2003	Meet My Folks	Unknown
2012	Ridiculousness	Themselves
2013–19	Total Divas		Main cast (seasons 1–8) Guest (season 9)[7]
2014	Psych		Episode: "A Nightmare on State Street"[8]
2016–21	Total Bellas		Lead roles
2017	Whose Line Is It Anyway?		Special guests
2020	The Substitute		Episode 1.5
	The Kelly Clarkson Show		Episode: "December 30, 2020"
2022	Biography: WWE Legends		Episode: July 24, 2022

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2004	Right Side of the Bed	Atreyu
2014	Na Na	Trey Songz
2017	Hollywood	Sophia Grace

Championships and accomplishments

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked Brie No. 12 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2015^[9]
  • PWI ranked Nikki No. 1 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2015^[9]
• Rolling Stone
  • Rolling Stone named Nikki as the Diva of the Year in 2015^[10]
  • Rolling Stone named Nikki as the Most Improved Wrestler in 2015^[11]
• Teen Choice Awards
  • Choice Female Athlete (2016)^[12]
• WrestleCrap
  • Gooker Award (2014) Feud between each other (co-winner with Vince McMahon)^[13]
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Worst Feud of the Year (2014) Brie vs. Nikki^[14]
  • Worst Feud of the Year (2015) Team PCB vs. Team B.A.D. vs. Team Bella^[15]
  • Worst Worked Match of the Year (2013) with Cameron, Eva Marie, JoJo, Naomi, and Natalya vs. AJ Lee, Aksana, Alicia Fox, Kaitlyn, Rosa Mendes, Summer Rae and Tamina Snuka on November 24^[16]
• WWE
  • WWE Divas Championship (3 times) – Brie (1), Nikki (2)^[17]
  • Slammy Award (4 times)
    • Couple of the Year (2013), 2014) Brie with Daniel Bryan^[18][19]
    • Diva of the Year (2013) shared with each other^[18]
    • Diva of the Year (2015) Nikki^[20]
  • WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2020)^[5]

References

1. "Nicole and Brianna Garcia (f.k.a. The Bella Twins)". Wizard Entertainment. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
2. "Brie Bella profile". Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
3. "Caldwell's WWE Raw Results 3/11: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live Raw - WWE recognizes Bearer by incorporating him into Taker-Punk, Lesnar challenges Hunter, no Cena, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
4. "'Total Bellas' coming to E!, new 'Total Divas' cast announced". WWE.com. April 16, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
5. Melok, Bobby (February 21, 2020). "The Bella Twins to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2020". Retrieved February 22, 2020.
6. Henderson, Cydney (March 14, 2023). "Brie Bella, Nikki Bella reintroduced as 'Garcia Twins' after parting ways with WWE". USA Today. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
7. "Rousey joins Total Divas Season 9, Bellas to guest-star". WWE.
8. Hyson, Sean (June 10, 2015). "How the WWE'S Bella Twins Became Sports Performers". Muscle & Fitness. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
9. "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) Female 50 for 2015". The Internet Wrestling Database. Archived from the original on December 31, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
10. "WWE Wrestler(s) of the Year". Rolling Stone. December 14, 2015. Archived from the original on December 15, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
11. Herzog, Kenny (July 1, 2015). "WWE Wrestler of the Year (So Far): Kevin Owens". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
12. "Winners of "Teen Choice 2016" announced". FOX. August 7, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
13. Art0Donnell (February 5, 2015). "Induction: Bella vs. Bella - 2014 Gooker Award Co-winner". WrestleCrap. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
14. Meltzer, Dave (January 26, 2015). "Jan. 26, 2015 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: 2014 awards issue w/ results & Dave's commentary, Conor McGregor, and much more". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California: 32. ISSN 1083-9593. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
15. Meltzer, Dave (January 25, 2016). "January 25, 2016 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: 2015 Observer Awards Issue". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California: 43. ISSN 1083-9593.
16. Meltzer, Dave (January 27, 2014). "Jan 27 2014 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: 2013 Annual awards issue, best in the world in numerous categories, plus all the news in pro-wrestling and MMA over the past week and more". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California: 32. ISSN 1083-9593. Archived from the original on August 27, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
17. "History of the Divas Championship: Brie Bella". WWE. April 11, 2011. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
18. Caldwell, James (December 9, 2013). "WWE News: Complete list of "Slammys" winners during Raw". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
19. Laboon, Jeff (December 8, 2014). "2014 Slammy Award winners". WWE. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
20. "2015 Slammy Award winners". WWE. December 16, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2018.

Other websites

• Brie Bella on WWE.com
• Nikki Bella on WWE.com
• Brianna Garcia on IMDb
• Nicole Garcia on IMDb