Nikki Garcia admits looking for love within the highlight is “tough” amid rumors she’s courting Philadelphia Eagles participant Cooper DeJean.
“It’s been loopy,” Garcia, 42, solely instructed Us Weekly on Monday, March 9, of placing herself again on the market after finalizing her divorce from Artem Chigvinstev in 2024.
The WWE wrestler famous that there’s “moments the place I really feel tremendous assured,” and others the place she looks like “such a woman” as she navigates her love life.
“It’s tough, as a result of what I’ve realized is courting within the public eye, you may have, like, a date with somebody, after which everybody’s like, ‘She’s with this particular person. They’ve been collectively without end,’” Nikki mentioned whereas selling her and twin sister Brie Garcia’s return to the WWE ring for subsequent month’s WrestleMania Tag Workforce Championship in Las Vegas.
“Typically (I’m) like, ‘Can I simply have enjoyable and it simply be enjoyable?’” she added.
Following her cut up from Chivingstev, with whom she shares son Matteo, 5Nikki has been romantically linked to DeJean, 23.
The pair have been rumored to be courting in fall 2025 after Nikki was seen attending an Eagles sport and posing in entrance of the NFL participant’s locker. Nikki added gasoline to the hearth when she wore DeJean’s jersey quantity whereas supporting the Eagles in December 2025.
A supply solely instructed Us in January that Nikki and DeJean have “frolicked,” including that she was “having enjoyable and having fun with being single.”
Throughout a joint look together with her sister at a Uncooked occasion in Philadelphia final month, followers began to yell “Coop,” which caught Nikki off guard.
She then teased her relationship with the defensive again, telling the group, “Are you able to blame a woman for having good style? I imply, Professional Bowl, child.”
Cooper DeJean.
Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty PhotographsDeJean, in the meantime, instructed Folks in February that it was “loopy” that Nikki gave him a shout-out in Philadelphia.
Whereas Nikki didn’t identify drop DeJean whereas talking with Us on Monday, she confirmed that she is having “enjoyable” on this part of her life.
“I really like being single. I actually do,” Nikki mentioned, noting that her son “fills my cup after which everybody else is (for) once I wish to have a great time.”
In relation to discovering a longer-term relationship, Nikki additionally instructed Us that she’s considered happening The Bachelorette — however she’d wish to make a couple of modifications to how the present runs earlier than handing out any roses.
Nikki Garcia and John Cena referred to as off their engagement in 2018, and almost a decade later they’d a really business-like reunion — handshake and all. Garcia, 41, recalled her first time seeing Cena, 48, in “seven, eight years” through the Wednesday, June 25, episode of Actually Cavallari: The Podcast Tour, which filmed in March. (…)
“What I’d love is, like, an Emily in Paris can meet The Bachelorettehowever not like 20 males,” Nikki defined of her dream courting present, including that the boys needs to be “in the identical place” fame clever as her, so there isn’t anybody making an attempt to chase “clout.”
Nikki added that she envisions her sister, Brieand her ladies to be concerned to allow them to “all come collectively after issues” and debrief.
She joked that the elimination ceremonies must be at “joyful hour” or a “regular time, so all of us might get magnificence sleep.”
Brie Garcia, Nikki Garcia.
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photographs for Taco BellAfter Nikki mentioned that she is “within the center space,” so not supreme for The Bachelorette or for The Golden BacheloretteBrie steered there be a “millenial” model to make it extra enjoyable.
Whereas the Garcia twins — and followers of The Bachelorette — anticipate a attainable millennial version of the courting franchise, Nikki and Brie are getting ready to get again within the wrestling ring for WWE’s Tag Workforce Championship at WrestleMania in Las Vegas.
“Let’s be trustworthy, because the womb, we’ve been one of many best tag groups. However I do really feel like, while you take a look at the historical past of the ladies’s division of tag groups, Nikki and I, the Bella Twins all the time stand out,” Brie instructed Us. “And for us, we by no means obtained to go for these championships. We began, we retired, we began to have infants.”
It seems like Nikki Garcia has been exhibiting NFL star Cooper DeJean tips on how to lay the smack down. The Philadelphia Eagles cornerback, 22, carried out a WWE-style celebration dance and even used Garcia’s ex-fiancé John Cena’s signature transfer, the 5-Knuckle Shuffle, on teammate Quinyon Mitchell within the run-up to their 29-18 victory over the Washington Commanders (…)
Brie famous that after Nikki returned to wrestling a 12 months in the past, she obtained “the itch.” Now that the twins are of their 40s, Brie needs to “show,” to herself and to her youngsters, “what mommy can do.”
“I additionally wish to present all the ladies on the market that, you realize, we turn into mothers, we lose ourselves at instances, however you may all the time come again and end up,” Brie mentioned of her inspiration to return to the ring.
Nikki agreed, saying it’s all the time been one in every of their goals to be WWE Tag Workforce Championships. She instructed Us that after turning into a Corridor of Famer, successful this championship with Brie can be the “cherry on prime.”
WrestleMania 42 returns to Sin Metropolis on Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19, at Allegiant Stadium.