Former Muscle & Fitness Hers cover model and WWE Total Divas star, Nikki Bella, is set to undergo surgery today, telling E! News, “I have basically a broken neck, a pretty bad herniated disk. What makes mind a little bit difficult than most people is that I have some disk behind my vertebrae so with a lot of prayers we’re gona pray that the doctors can get the piece behind my vertebrai with just a bone fusion.”
The bone fusion is said to take at least two hours and Bella has been in positive spirits, “I have honestly one of the most amazing doctors.” Bella has been experiencing pain in her neck since July 2015 and got an MRI this October. She says, “Right when we saw that we knew OK no more ring work. So it’s been a wear and tear and what we do it’s entertainment but there’s a reason why we say, ‘Don’t try this at home.'”
Post-surgery, Bella’s hospital stay should only be two days and she’ll have to have her neck in a brace for up to three months with no traveling. She has to be extremely careful not to move her neck because the injury is at her C6 an C7.
With all that said, this surgery could possibly be career-ending. Bella explains, “We will only know that when I get out of surgery on Wednesday and then basically how the bone heals Wednesday. So that been tough but I truly have such hope that I will get to compete in that ring another day, I really do.”
Bella’s family and her long-time boyfriend, John Cena, have been a great support system.
