Maria Kanellis was born in Ottawa, Illinois, about 80 miles and a whole other world outside of Chicago. With a body to die for, she probably wouldn’t kill you, but she could knock you out, as her biggest claim to fame is being a WWE Diva and a menace in a bikini. She was voted Diva of the Year in 2009, forever cementing her legacy as one of the best to ever step in the ring. The redhead performed her legendary wrestling moves from 2004-2010, then took a break to do a different kind of acting, appearing in movies like The Opposite Sex(2014), where she played “Hot Mess,” but audiences only focused on the “Hot” part because she was topless, drawing attention to her fabulous rack, and wearing tiny panties. In 2015, she entered the ring again, participating in multiple Ring of Honor titles, then doing a bunch of Beyond Wrestling matches, including Beyond Life Sucks and Then You Die (2015), and Beyond Territorial Pissings (2016). Maria and her tiny costumes, which somehow miraculously stay in place despite all her moving around, flipped over to Impact Wrestling, and starred in both the TNA iMPACT! Wresting and TNA One Night Only series from 2016-2017. She came full circle in 2017, returning to the WWE Smackdown! arena, followed by WWE: 205 Live from 2018-2019, and WWE Raw in 2019. If you’re not into wresting, and missed that bare-boobed movie pop-up, but still think this gorgeous babe looks familiar, you may remember Maria from the 2010 season of The Apprentice, where she hung in there to finished fifth out of 14 contestants, eventually losing to Bret Michaels. She can’t win all of them, but she’s definitely won Mr. Skin’s heart.
