Reby Hardy is a bit worried that her kids think having a famous dad is a typical experience for everyone.
King Maxel Hardy has been backstage at wrestling television tapings since he was six weeks old. He even got into the ring and defeated Rockstar Spud well before the age of 3.
Maxel and all of Matt and Reby Hardy’s children are a larger part of house Hardy and of course, that also extends to Brother Nero, Jeff Hardy, who is also a massive television star.
Reby Hardy was a guest on this week's Wives of Wrestling podcast and she spoke about not having an aversion to putting her children on television and even stated that she is a tad worried that her children don't exactly grasp that having a famous father isn't a normal childhood experience.
“I'm afraid that they think seeing dad on TV is normal,” said Reby. “I haven't even gotten to that point where I've had to really explain that not everybody’s dad is on TV because, of course, the next closest person to them is Jeff, who is also on TV, and their cousins, whose dad is also on TV. We homeschool and not to perpetuate the sheltered homeschool kids stereotype, we do go out a lot, but when we go out, I make it a point that nobody talks wrestling so that doesn't even come up. So, I don't think they realize that he's cool, or what. honestly, I think that they don't get that that's not normal.”
Talking about not having any issue with putting them on television, Reby Hardy says that she never wanted motherhood to be the end of her career so that meant that the baby was going to be with her at TV tapings while she was with Matt in IMPACT Wrestling.
“Every time I ever had a personal wrestling opportunity in the business, I got pregnant. So even if I had wanted to advance, I couldn't, because I got pregnant. Then, when the Broken Matt stuff was really popping off, we had just had Maxel and I didn't want to take away from any of that. I never wanted to be one of those moms that are like, ‘I had a kid, my life is over.’ I just, I wanted to — anything that I did, I wanted the baby to come. You were never going to cash me without my baby. So if I'm going to be there supporting Matt, if I'm going to be there working, the baby's going to come and they just thought it was a good idea to include the baby, which I never really had an issue with and he, I mean, from the time Maxel was 6 weeks old, he was at TNA TV tapings, so it's just normal for him,” she said.
Matt Hardy also discussed this during a recent episode of his podcast. You can learn what he had to say about all of House Hardy here.
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