Becky Lynch insists becoming a mum doesn’t mean she must retire..hope for WWE comeback glory

And the wrestling star reckons that if men don’t have to wait until the end of their careers to become parents, neither should she.

Lynch, 33, revealed earlier this year that she’s expecting her first child with fellow wrestler Seth Rollins.

The news forced her to relinquish her wrestling title following a record-breaking reign with the belt.

Now the Limerick native has revealed she still has unfinished business in wrestling, and was determined to start a family while retaining her career.

‘WHY WAIT?’

She revealed: “I knew like okay, I want to try and have a baby before 35, and then I met Colby [Rollins], and I was like, well, perfect, this is my person.

“And so this was always the plan because originally I was like, okay, well, I’ll wait until I’m done wrestling, and then I’ll have a family.

“But then I started thinking wait, well, wait, why do I have to do that?

“Guys don’t have to do that. Hell, I’ll just do it whenever the time feels right.

“So we started trying and I just thought it would take a long time and it didn’t. We were super lucky.”

FAMILY FEARS

She added: “It happened before I would have expected. I was still the champ at the time.”

The flame-haired star also admitted she feared that she may not be able to have children after spending years building up her body.

Speaking on The Bella Twins podcast, she said: “Back of my mind I always wanted to be a mother, I always wanted to have a family.

“I started wrestling when I was 15, and, umm, just everything I did in bodybuilding competitions, I just felt I had damaged my body a lot.”

A former Aer Lingus flight attendant, Lynch is now regarded as the most influential figure in women’s wrestling.

DOMINATING INDUSTRY

She’s credited with boosting the discipline’s visibility worldwide and made history as the first woman to headline a Wrestlemania event.

However, her rise to fame certainly wasn’t straightforward.

While she began training as a professional wrestler in 2002, she had to wait until 2013 to secure a contract with WWE.

Since then, she has dominated the industry, becoming the only woman to hold the RAW and Smackdown championship titles simultaneously.

However, partner Seth reckons she’s keen to get back in the ring, saying: “Obviously that’s gonna be up to her and how she feels.