Transgender former WWE star Gabbi Tuft has lifted the lid on the grueling steps she had to take to lose 190 pounds of weight and muscle mass during her transition into a woman. Tuft, known as Tyler Reks during her first four-year run with WWE, was released from the company in 2012 and retired from competition in 2014. But, three years after coming out as a transgender woman in February 2021, the 45-year-old recently expressed a desire to return to the ring on social media. During her initial run, Tuft weighed around 280 pounds and would eat 10,000 calories a day to build a physique that meant she was ‘the alpha male of alpha males’.
Tuft then shared: ‘We actually don’t have partners outside of the relationship at all. I was a virgin when we got married 18 and a half years ago — we had never kissed. Our first kiss was on our wedding day.’ And Tuft said it has not been smooth making the transition. Fighting under the stage moniker Tyler Reks, Tuft spent four years with the WWE before being released in 2012. Retirement soon following in 2014, and it was in 2021 that the 45-year-old came out as a transgender woman. Tuft has now lifted the lid on her gruelling transitional phase, ditching her 280lb frame for a lighter weight.
