Joanie: I'm not so much for the equal rights thing. Whether you are a woman or a different race, if you can step up to the plate...you should be able to.
Joanie: I messed with Vern when we all moved into that Surreal Life house, he didn't take it so well in the beginning. As the days moved on, he and I wound up being great friends, I would do anything I could to help him out. I am pretty sure that the feeling is mutual, it had better be.
Joanie: Joey Buttafuoco is a jerk, capital J. He knew that the boxing match was not supposed to be a full force death match, had I known that we were playing for keeps, I would've knocked that little weasel out from the bell.
Joanie: I look back on my time on The Surreal Life and cringe. I enjoyed meeting all all of the housemates, who turned into my friends and family, but my state of mind was unsettled.
Joanie was arrested for assaulting her ex, Sean Waltman in January of 2005.
Joanie has size ten feet, she gets many compliments on them.
Joanie auditioned for the role of Wonder Woman along with Sandra Bullock, and Jennifer Aniston in 2001.
Joanie is a licensed boxer, and was training for her first boxing match, when she was hired on by the WWF.
Joanie's idol is Jane Fonda for her strength and talent in acting.
Joanie can bench press 325 lbs.
Joanie didn't get along with her parents, and left home at the age of fifteen.
Joanie was in the music video "Enemy" for the band Sevendust in 2003.
Laurer turned down a six figure offer to go back to wrestling and has repeatedly stated that she has absolutely no desire or plan to ever return to the ring for WWE.
It became clear in 2005 after appearances on the Howard Stern Show that Laurer had alcohol abuse problems that stemmed from abuse from her boyfriend.
Laurer has made numerous guest appearances on television series, including 3rd Rock from the Sun, Pacific Blue, Relic Hunter, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and Fear Factor.
The star began an acting career, appearing on shows like Tracker, Relic Hunter, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Sabrina and even starring in a Touchstone picture called Frank McKlusky CI.
Chyna's finishing and signature moves in the WWF were the Jackknife Powerbomb, Pedigree, DDT, Sleeper slam, Gorilla press slam, Handspring back elbow, and the Kneeling low blow (from behind).
She left the WWF on November 30, 2001, several months after negotiations had broken down and she had been taken off television.
Laurer returned a few weeks later and began a feud with Ivory over the WWF Women's Championship. This culminated in an angle at the 2001 Royal Rumble where Laurer appeared to re-injure her neck while performing a handspring back elbow. The highly publicized return of Laurer from the "injury" culminated in her winning the Women's Championship from Ivory at WrestleMania X-Seven in a squash match.
Laurer's appearance in Playboy attracted the unwanted attention of Right to Censor, a strait-laced group of wrestlers who lampooned the Parents Television Council.
She defeated Jarrett for the title in his last WWF match on October 17, 1999 at No Mercy, in the process becoming the first and only woman to win the Intercontinental Championship.
The day after the 1999 Royal Rumble, Laurer turned heel by betraying Triple H and aligning herself with his enemy Vince McMahon. She was a thorn in the side of Triple H until he too joined McMahon's stable at WrestleMania XV.
Joanie Laurer trained at Wladek "Killer" Kowalski's wrestling school in Salem, Massachusetts.
Admitted she has tried to commit suicide on numerous occasions.
She was the only women Intercontinental Champion; and she co-champed the title with Chris Jericho.
She dated Paul "Triple H" LeVesque from January/February 1997 to late 2000/Early 2001.
While in the WWF, she held the Women's Championship on numerous occasions.
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