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Daily Inspiration Quote by Torrie Wilson

"I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan, and I'm embarrassed to say it now, but I used to make fun of him for watching it"

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Torrie Wilson’s admission lands because it’s a quiet reversal of the cool-girl script: the reflex to mock what men love, then later recognize that the mockery was less about taste and more about status. She isn’t confessing a deep moral failing; she’s naming a social instinct. Wrestling, for decades, has been coded as “low” culture - loud, fake, melodramatic, working-class - an easy target for anyone trying to sound discerning. Her embarrassment now isn’t about wrestling itself so much as about the performance of superiority she once joined.

The line also carries a neat irony given Wilson’s own proximity to wrestling’s ecosystem. As a celebrity whose public image has been shaped by spectacle, branding, and an audience’s appetite for scripted narrative, she’s describing the same dynamic she benefited from: entertainment that’s openly constructed, yet emotionally real for fans. That’s the subtext: we forgive “manufactured” drama when it’s packaged as prestige TV, but sneer when it’s a ring and spandex.

Context matters, too. Dating someone with a stigmatized hobby forces a choice: participate, tolerate, or police it. Wilson is acknowledging she policed it, then learned the cultural hierarchy she was enforcing is flimsy. The quote reads like a small personal growth story, but it’s also a snapshot of how taste becomes a weapon in relationships - and how easy it is to confuse judgment with identity.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Wilson, Torrie. (2026, February 16). I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan, and I'm embarrassed to say it now, but I used to make fun of him for watching it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-dating-a-guy-that-was-a-huge-wrestling-fan-120595/

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Wilson, Torrie. "I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan, and I'm embarrassed to say it now, but I used to make fun of him for watching it." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-dating-a-guy-that-was-a-huge-wrestling-fan-120595/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan, and I'm embarrassed to say it now, but I used to make fun of him for watching it." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-dating-a-guy-that-was-a-huge-wrestling-fan-120595/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Torrie Wilson (born July 24, 1975) is a Celebrity from USA.

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