On the new What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes, while Becky Lynch is talking about how grateful she is to have an established pro wrestling career and a just-starting Hollywood one, she reveals that her four-year-old daughter Roux has repeat request of her:
“She’s always asking for a little brother. She wants a little brother.”
That gets a “oh woah” out of Cody, and you don’t even have to be a parent to have that kind of thing tug at your heartstrings. For a woman who’s already balancing
her own aspirations with being a mother, it’s even more:
“So that’s one of those things, like, I’m really loving wrestling, I’m loving the acting roles that I’m getting. I kind of feel like momentum is on my side. And eventually, I would love another one. We’ve got to kind of figure that out.
“It’s like the worst thing she could possibly say to me. She’s like, when you’re done working, when you make enough money, then can I have my little brother?
“The other part of that is I love working. I love working. I love what I do.
“Like, I love going out and having nights like tonight [at July’s Evolution premium live event in Atlanta, which the interview was taped after). I love it. Just shot the pilot for Movers. I loved every second of that.
“And then I love coming home, looking after my little girl. But growing the family would be also amazing.
“There’s not enough time, you know what I mean? There’s not enough time. I want to do it all.”
Lynch praised Rhodes as an example of how to have it all and keep your priorities straight. But of course, he wouldn’t have to put both his WWE and acting careers on hold for a year-plus if he and wife Brandi decide to have a second child. For Becky:
“It always like hits me in the gut. And she’s said it multiple times now. She keeps saying like, when is my little brother going to get here?”
The Man has proven that you can take time off to add to your family without derailing your career, helping to show others that it’s okay. But as Charlotte Flair recently wrote about, it’s still a daunting choice for a lot of women.
Check out Lynch and Rhodes’ entire conversation here.
