The Bella Twins

The Bella Twins were an American professional wrestling tag team that performed in WWE and consisted of identical twin sisters Brie Bella and Nikki Bella.

Each of the Bella Twins are former WWE Divas Champions.

Brie was the first twin in WWE to win the title, while Nikki won it twice with her second reign of 301 days being the longest reign for the now defunct title.

Nicole and Brianna Garcia were born sixteen minutes apart on November 21, 1983, in Brawley, California and raised on a farm in the outskirts of Scottsdale, Arizona.

They are of Mexican and Italian descent and played soccer in their youth.

The twins graduated from Chaparral High School in 2002.

They returned to San Diego for college, where Nicole continued playing soccer for Grossmont College, with both twins also working at Hooters.

A year later, the twins relocated to Los Angeles in pursuit of acting and modeling opportunities, making ends meet doing various gigs from marketing for a now defunct record label, to cocktail waitressing at the Mondrian Hotel.

They then made their first national TV appearance on the Fox reality show Meet My Folks.

Following this appearance, the twins were hired to be the World Cup Twins for Budweiser and were photographed holding the World Cup trophy.

They were contestants in the 2006 "International Body Doubles twins search".

They participated in the 2006 WWE Diva Search, but did not make the cut.

Both sisters signed with WWE in 2007 and were assigned to the developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling.

The Bella Twins were signed to developmental contracts by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in June 2007 and were assigned to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), WWE's then-developmental territory, in Tampa, Florida.

On September 14, the twins made their in-ring debut defeating Nattie Neidhart and Krissy Vaine with Victoria Crawford as the special guest referee.

As a part of their on-screen personas, they switched places behind the referee's back if one of them was hurt.

This was called "Twin Magic".

They also occasionally competed in mixed tag team matches, teaming with male wrestlers including Kofi Kingston and Robert Anthony.

They also made some non-wrestling appearances on Heath Miller's Happy Hour promo segment.

Starting in December 2007, they managed Derrick Linkin, but this storyline was cut short when Linkin was released in January 2008.

Brie Bella was called up to the main roster in 2008.

In early appearances, she surreptitiously switched places with her sister to win her matches.

After some weeks, Nikki Bella was revealed as her twin.

During the next few years, they worked together as a team, as well as individually.

They then resumed their feud with Neidhart and Crawford, wrestling them throughout much of 2008.

In FCW, the twins competed in bikini contests and wrestled against Katie Lea Burchill, Milena Roucka, and Nattie Neidhart.

Their last FCW appearance was on September 2, when they competed in a Divas battle royal won by Miss Angela.

On the August 29 episode of SmackDown, Brianna debuted as Brie Bella and defeated Victoria.

She had a series of matches with Victoria and Victoria's accomplice Natalya.

In each match, Brie would roll out of the ring, slip underneath it, and emerge surprisingly revived to win the match.

On the November 7 episode of SmackDown, Brie picked up a win against Victoria and then ran under the ring to escape Natalya and Victoria, but Victoria and Natalya both reached for Brie under the ring, resulting in both Nicole and Brie being pulled out.

Nicole was then introduced as Nikki Bella.

The twins had their first official match as a team on the November 21 episode of SmackDown, defeating Victoria and Natalya.

Each sister won the WWE Divas Championship once before they were released in 2012.

The Bella Twins made their return in 2013 and were featured in the reality show Total Divas before getting their own spin-off, Total Bellas.

They were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021 as a team.

The twins would only make occasional appearances in WWE in their last few years, but acted as ambassadors for the company until their contracts expired in 2023.

Following this, they retired the "Bella" name and reintroduced themselves as The Garcia Twins as "Garcia" was their maiden name.

In November 2015, Nikki was ranked No. 1 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Female 50.

In 2015, Nikki also won a WWE Slammy Award for Diva of The Year.