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21 Years Before Dwayne Johnson’s Daughter Became a WWE Superstar, The Great One Had a Weird Reaction at the Time of His “Baby Girl’s” Birth

Published 08/12/2023, 10:30 AM EDT

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Simone Johnson was born on August 14, 2001, to Dwayne Johnson and his ex-wife, Dany Garcia. It was an extremely happy and exciting moment for ‘The Great One’, as it was his very first child. But do you know he had a very weird reaction when he saw her for the first time after she popped out of her mother’s womb?

Yes, that is right. Johnson was baffled by his eldest daughter’s first looks and he detailed the happening of the situation in an old interview from 2001. Let’s dive deep and find out more about this matter.

Dwayne Johnson details the first glimpse of his daughter

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During an interview on Late Night Show, Conan O’Brien congratulated Johnson on having a baby three weeks before the day the interview. He asked Johnson whether he had a boy or a girl. ‘The Rock’ replied by saying, “Baby Girl”.

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He then revealed how he reacted after seeing his daughter for the first time. He was really excited to see her, but when he did, her looks overwhelmed him. “Yeah! It’s just extremely exciting. Because it’s my first baby. The funny thing is at the hospital, as soon as the baby’s born, the baby comes out and the face is just completely…,” he said.

Normally when babies are born, their faces are all shriveled up from being in so much liquid inside their mother’s uterus, which was also the case with Simone. The wrestler-turned-actor added that the worst part of the whole situation came when the nurse in the delivery room made a comment about his daughter’s appearance.

The time when a nurse compared Johnson to his newborn baby

During the interview, Johnson revealed that the nurse compared his newborn baby’s face to his face when she was born. This made him go into shock for a couple of seconds as he hadn’t expected that he would be getting compared to the like of a newborn baby.

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“Well, yeah! What makes it worse is the nurse’s looking, and she goes, ‘Oh my God! She looks just like you. Me? I said, ‘Really?’,” he added. It is obvious Johnson’s baby would look like him only, but the nurse caught him by surprise when she compared the newborn Simone’s shriveled-up face to her father’s.

‘The People’s Champion’ and O’Brien laughed at the hilarious incident as they proceeded to the next topic. Simone Johnson is 21 years old now and is currently a WWE superstar. She made her debut in NXT on October 2022 under the name Ava Raine. Walking in her footsteps, she has made her father and her Samoan family proud.

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Let us know what you think of Johnson’s weird reaction when he saw his baby girl for the first time. We would love to hear from you.

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Monika Thapa is a WWE writer at EssentiallySports, who brings a unique blend of fluency in language and passion for the sport to her writing. Having been a fan of WWE since her childhood, Monika writes thought-provoking articles that offer readers deeper insights into the lives of their favorite superstars. She believes that WWE superstars present valuable life lessons that readers can learn from, as seen in her recent piece on Ronda Rousey's workout video.
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