Reby Hardy on Gothic Baby, Wrestling and Being a Child Bride

Throwback Thursday (Originally aired: 11/28/24) Bunnie gets in the ring with Reby Hardy this week. This beautiful wrestler, game designer, model, host, super mom and wife (and even more) paints the picture of growing up in Queens, becoming a child bride at 16 and divorcee at 18, and her journey to having her first wrestling match televised on live TV. She talks about working with huge brands like Sirius, MTV, and Playboy, meeting her husband, wrestler Matt Hardy through a fan's suggestion on Twitter, and together making the cutest viral Gothic Babies that the world has ever seen. Reby talks about building their family compound in North Carolina, and what's next for the family of superstars. Reby Hardy: IG https://www.instagram.com/rebysky/?hl=en | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@rebyhardy?lang=en Matt Hardy: IG https://www.instagram.com/matthardybrand/ Watch Full Episodes & More: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Dumbblondepod

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• 0:00Bunnie XO?

  Is this thing on?

• 0:03Speaker 01

  Alright gentlemen, coming to main stage next, this is Bunny. Get up there, she's got a tornado of titties coming your way. Get those dollar bills ready. She's got an ass that shakes like Michael J. Fox. So get up there and throw, throw, throw them dollars.

• 0:16Bunnie XO?

  Dude, that is fucking iconic. What's up you sexy motherfuckers? Welcome to another episode of Don Blonde. Today I have one half of the iconic couple.

• 0:25Speaker 02

  The beautiful Reby Hardy is here, baby.

• 0:27Bunnie XO?

  Oh, thank you. Does it ever bother you being referred to as Matt Hardy's wife?

• 0:33Speaker 02

  It's like, I get it to an extent, like he's the more famous one, but it really does like discredit literally everything I've ever done in my life. Like all the cool shit that I've ever done. It was before I met him, really. And there's a hundred different lives, lifetimes that I feel like I've lived before I met him and all that is just like null and void. Like no one cares. Once you're with him, you're just like, Matt Hardy's wife, that's it. That's your whole personality. There's nothing else special about you.

• 0:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 0:58Speaker 02

  I get it, but at the same time, I'm like, just fuck me, I guess.

• 1:04Bunnie XO?

  No, for sure. So I heard the New York accent and I heard you mention a hundred lifetimes. So I want to take it all the way back. You grew up in New York, correct?

• 1:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, Queens, New York.

• 1:14Bunnie XO?

  Queen, my father's from Queens, Cute Gardens.

• 1:16Speaker 02

  Oh shit, okay. I was born in the hospital, not, not far from there.

• 1:19Bunnie XO?

  Oh, very cool. I love that. So growing up in New York, what was that like for you? Paint that picture for us.

• 1:25Speaker 02

  Growing up in New York, I feel like now that I've lived in other places than New York, and especially now, I live in like the deep country. Like you gotta drive 30 minutes to go to the supermarket.

• 1:35Bunnie XO?

  Oh my gosh, I didn't even know places were like that in New York.

• 1:38Speaker 02

  No, no, now, now, yeah. So it's like now that I look back on, on my upbringing and my childhood, like damn, I really took shit for granted. I'm out here like, you know, just going and hanging out in the city, doing, you know, just at the drop of a hat. And I think about that now, it's like, man, I really gotta drive 20 minutes to go to a Walmart. Like it's crazy, but um, yeah. We, my dad was a superintendent of an apartment building that we lived in, and that's how we were able to live in a nicer area, which was great. So we had three bedroom apartment in New York and um,

• 2:08Bunnie XO?

  You're ballin'.

• 2:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, we- We're ballin'. Shout out, shout out to my dad, cause he busted his ass. I feel like everything I have now, even like the Catholic baby stuff in my life and my DIY stuff, I was watching him. Being like a handyman and doing everything himself. It's like, that's where I get it from.

• 2:23Bunnie XO?

  So you have a pretty good relationship with pops?

• 2:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, we actually ended up moving him down the street. So he lived in Puerto Rico after him and my mom split up. She was fucking the gardener.

• 2:33Bunnie XO?

  Damn it, mom.

• 2:34Speaker 02

  Goddamn it, mom. Damn trifling, oh.

• 2:39Speaker 02

  The whole, you know, it was when the hurricane was happening in Puerto Rico about five years back, maybe, God, even longer by now. And, and we were like, you know what? Every time it rains, it rains inside of your house too. Like, this can't, we can't do this. So we bought him a house on the compound. We live on a hundred acres in the middle of nowhere. So now he's, he's part of the compound there. He's got his own little house. So yeah, we're close and you know, thank goodness for him.

• 3:00Bunnie XO?

  I love that. So you said, uh, so growing up, did you have both parents or did they split when you were growing up?

• 3:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, they were together up until, um, not, not long ago. My mom bought a house in Millinore, North Carolina also. Unrelated to that, it just, you know, meant to be in the stars, I guess. And she moved first to, to get the house set up and everything. And my dad had it finished, so you could collect this pension, you gotta stay X amount of years or whatever. And she ended up, you know. She went buck wild and then they broke up.

• 3:29Bunnie XO?

  Mom was just ready. She fucking had her, what do they call it? Midlife crisis and just fucking, yeah, just went crazy. So growing up, what was Little Ruby like? Were you always like into wrestling and stuff like that? Or was that like, were you always roughhousing? Do you have relatives, uh, siblings?

• 3:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I have four siblings, but there's like eighteen years in between me and the youngest of them. So, you know, they were more like parental figures that I really never saw. So almost like uncles really at that point. I'm closer with their kids now who are technically my nieces and nephews than with my actual siblings. So it was just me, cause I'm my dad's only kid.

• 4:04Speaker 02

  And, uh, I feel.

• 4:07Speaker 02

  I feel like wrestling in the like the late 90s like Y2K was it was like the hot cool thing to do. It's not like it is now. You know, it's like, oh, hokey wrestling.

• 4:14Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 4:15Speaker 02

  Nerd. Like wrestling used to be a cool thing, you know, it's like everybody was into it. So that's kind of, you know, I, I, I got into it that way.

• 4:22Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. Did you know, like as a kid, like this is what I want to do? Or it was just, you were just kind of like a fan about it?

• 4:28Speaker 02

  I was like a showbiz kid, like in dance classes and piano classes and just any sort of like entertainment or stage, like I was there. So when I was younger, I never really thought in a million years that I would have any involvement in wrestling at all. Um, that kind of happened after I started working.

• 4:47Speaker 02

  Not even working. I did. It's so crazy. So this is one of the lifetimes. I had this thing where I would go to Giants game. I was, I was a huge New York Giants fan. And I would go to all the games and I would dress up. And now it's like, who cares, bitch? Everyone dresses up. Listen, back 900 years ago, whenever this, no one was doing this. No one was dressing up in crazy outfits and you know, like cute corsets and tutus and shit and going to the game. It just wasn't happening.

• 5:11Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 5:11Speaker 02

  So I started getting this sort of like cult following and becoming like this New York Giants. I want to say icon because that's a big word, but you know, notable and like on NFL Network and in the commercials and all, all that kind of thing. So I got to do interviews at Sirius XM and from there I met somebody who ended up hosting a wrestling show on Sirius XM. And I was like, oh my God, I used to watch wrestling. I remember wrestling, whatever. Anyway, I ended up being a fill in host for that show. And then eventually, you know, kept doing that kind of stuff, like kind of gopher apprentice type stuff, ended up being an actual host. And then we would have guests in studio, you know, kind of like this. And everyone who would come in would say, man, you should be in the business. Like, what are you doing over here interviewing me? Like, you should be wrestling.

• 5:55Speaker 02

  And then when I heard that, you know, enough times, I was like, well, fuck it. Let me, let me go find a school and let me train. And literally two months after I started training, I got a deal with MTV2 for a wrestling TV show that they were doing. It like spiraled from there.

• 6:09Bunnie XO?

  That's crazy. Well, let's.

• 6:10Speaker 02

  All like one thing to another random.

• 6:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. Let's rewind it back real quick before we start talking. About your wrestling and let's talk about this child bride thing. Oh, I we cannot just skip over that.

• 6:23Speaker 02

  I always do, though. I drop it every now and then and then I keep moving.

• 6:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, that's trauma. You're like.

• 6:27Speaker 02

  Long story, bro.

• 6:29Bunnie XO?

  Well, we're ready. So everybody get your coffee, get your fucking crumpets and tea. We are sitting down right now. It's tea time.

• 6:36Speaker 02

  Okay. All right.

• 6:38Bunnie XO?

  Child ride. So how old were you?

• 6:40Speaker 02

  Um, I was sixteen technically. The whole thing started when I was fifteen, but I was, you know, I I want to say like problem child, but when I look back at it, like, was I really like, I was sort of in the foster care system for a minute. I was in the troubled teen industry, which like, you know, I don't know if you guys seen like that Paris Hilton interview that she did.

• 7:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 7:01Speaker 02

  Speaking out. It was literally that. It was one of those places.

• 7:04Bunnie XO?

  Did you just start getting into trouble? What was the?

• 7:06Speaker 02

  It wasn't even trouble. I wasn't like, I wasn't on drugs. I wasn't like, you know, out here robbing people.

• 7:11Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you were rebellious.

• 7:12Speaker 02

  I feel like I was just a regular ass teenager, the way you would expect teenagers to be, but my mom was really crazy. So she was just, I don't know. She had me really, I don't want to say really old, but she had me at like forty one, which in the eighties is like miracle baby, you know, nowadays, it ain't nothing, but back then it was a big deal. She already had four kids, you know? So I feel like she really, really liked me when I was a little baby. And then once I stopped being a baby, it was like.

• 7:35Bunnie XO?

  It was hard for her to relate to you.

• 7:37Speaker 02

  She didn't want to do, it felt like she didn't want nothing to do with me. So I feel like anything that wasn't just me being like a complacent like doll that she could dress up at that point was like too much. So anything I did was trouble and I had met this guy and it was like my third boyfriend in my life ever, you know, like fifteen years old, whatever, but he was Jewish. Um, and the neighborhood right, you know, next to the neighborhood that I grew up in, like Regal Park, Lefrak was a huge like Hasidic Jewish community. So his parents were like hardcore Jewish. So they absolutely hated me and it was like,

• 8:17Speaker 02

  it was this, this huge thing. So his mom, just to be spiteful, called CPS on my mom and because I was already in the system and like cops had been called to the house prior because like we'd be fighting and throwing hands craziness, you know? They were like, yeah, she, we're just gonna, she's gonna go back in the foster system. And I was like, bro. So what ended up happening was they sort of like arranged for me to marry this guy. So that my mom wouldn't go to jail because they were threatening her with that like. Cause his mom had said, oh, you're allowing them to have sex in your house and you're. Facilitating all this illicit thing, blah, blah, blah. So my mom's like, you ain't, you about to catch me in none of this. So she's like, you're gonna marry him, it's gonna go away.

• 8:59Speaker 02

  And I'm gonna wipe my hands clean of it. I don't have to deal with you. Now I'm not gonna get in trouble. Kind of is really how it happened.

• 9:05Bunnie XO?

  How did you feel? Were you ready to get married and kind of get away and get out of the system?

• 9:09Speaker 02

  Well, you know, my dumb ass at fifteen, I'm like, oh, I love him. Like, whatever. It's like, this random dude I've known for a few months. Like, what the? What do I know?

• 9:17Bunnie XO?

  How did his parents feel about the arrangement? Were they?

• 9:20Speaker 02

  They were mad. Oh, they were mad. Cause she was playing the game, you know, cause his mom thought, ha, ha, I'm gonna break them up, you know, I'm gonna. And this and the, you know, his, her mom's gonna get in trouble. And my mom was like, bet. So they're like playing their little chess game. Yeah. So that, that's really. That's how that happened. And it was, it was terrible. You know, I went to my first prom. I was with my husband. I was married before I went to my first prom. And, you know, just having to figure out where we're gonna live now, how are we gonna make money now, you know, and it's. It's not like, you know, around where I live, you know, just get in a prom, get a room in New York. It's like, you know, two grand for a studio, for a room, whatever. So. I mean, it, it took a lot of, I feel like, time.

• 10:03Speaker 02

  To develop and like become my own person and like pursue my own interests. That I should have been able to have a, a normal fucking teenager, like regular teenagers. Like, it took that away from me. I feel like part of that is why I'm like so psycho into everything. Like, I literally do everything and anything. Cause like. I couldn't do that before. Like, let me, let me be crazy now.

• 10:21Bunnie XO?

  No, I love that. Um, how long did that marriage last?

• 10:25Speaker 02

  Uh, technically it was two, almost three years, but I mean, it really, it was over.

• 10:34Speaker 02

  A, a marriage, really.

• 10:36Bunnie XO?

  How did you guys get, like, did he work? Did you work? Like, how did you guys even live?

• 10:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, we both worked. I worked as a belly dancer. So I worked for an entertainment company. I would do weddings, bar mitzvahs, uh, you know.

• 10:47Bunnie XO?

  Can you belly dance for us still?

• 10:49Speaker 02

  I, I mean, I, I got the belly for it now.

• 10:53Speaker 02

  I guess I could.

• 10:54Bunnie XO?

  That's like, so I love the way they move their hips and shit. Like, it is just, it's like, it puts people in a trance.

• 10:59Speaker 02

  It does.

• 11:00Bunnie XO?

  It is so hot and seductive, dude. Um, okay, so after you get this divorce, you're how old?

• 11:07Speaker 02

  Almost eighteen.

• 11:08Bunnie XO?

  Almost eighteen. Where did, where does Reby go from here?

• 11:10Speaker 02

  So.

• 11:11Bunnie XO?

  You're already, you're eighteen, just divorced.

• 11:14Speaker 02

  Mm hmm. Yeah. Divorcee and I took my wedding photos from a wedding photo shoot that we had done at the mall. Like one of those like glamour shots places and I uploaded it on.

• 11:26Bunnie XO?

  Glamour shots. I remember.

• 11:28Speaker 02

  Fucking embarrassing. I, I need to go find these pictures because I feel like it'd make a good story time or something.

• 11:33Bunnie XO?

  I'd do it.

• 11:34Speaker 02

  I put it on this like model portfolio website.

• 11:36Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 11:36Speaker 02

  And within the first like week, I met this guy, of course, him and a bunch of guys, a bunch of fucking creeps because that's what that shit was. And.

• 11:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah. If they hide behind a modeling agency.

• 11:47Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. I'm a photographer. You know, come do artistic photos. There was a lot of that and I learned that pretty quick. I was dumb, but I caught on pretty quick.

• 11:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 11:56Speaker 02

  Uh, but I, I met this guy who I, I ended up dating very briefly, but he had a friend and he was like, oh yeah, I got this friend who's a photographer and he shoots film and you know, I, I feel like he, you know, you'd, you'd be a good fit for him because I used to be like ninety pounds, like super, you know, ideal for that kind of stuff that he was doing at the time. So I went and I did that. We shot on like some rooftop in the city. I went to Montauk in, in Long Island in the Hamptons and we shot some stuff. That ended up being the guy who shot my first Playboy pictures. My first Playboy pictures, I didn't even know we're gonna be, I didn't even know I was gonna be in Playboy. I got a call from this guy six months, eight months after the fact and he's like, oh, I'm gonna be in Playboy. And I was like, congratulations. And he's like, no, no, no, no, we're gonna be in Playboy. And I was like.

• 12:42Bunnie XO?

  Isn't that, isn't that crazy how back in the day, like people could take anybody's pictures as long as they had the author, or not even an authorization, but as long as they had the pictures and submit them to a fucking magazine like Playboy.

• 12:54Speaker 02

  It's insane.

• 12:54Bunnie XO?

  They would never do that now.

• 12:56Speaker 02

  Uh, I couldn't imagine.

• 12:57Bunnie XO?

  The lawsuits that would happen now is crazy, you know?

• 13:01Speaker 02

  But it's like, they were like film pictures on the beach. I literally thought he was just like, because I was sort of like his test models for when he would, you know, shoot the real beautiful models, you know, like the real tall girls or, you know, those stuff that he, because he was doing arts and books and museums and stuff like that. So I was like, okay, nothing's ever. We're gonna come of it and you know that ended up being published and from there I was like bitch I'm gonna run with this. This is my moment and I like took that and literally like marketed myself to try and be the most important model that has ever modeled in the fucking world of modeling. Like I was just like this is my chance and I just I hooked my trailer up to that shit and went and it worked out. Thank God.

• 13:40Bunnie XO?

  So you got published in Playboy. What happens after that?

• 13:43Speaker 02

  Uh, after that, really just like magazine stuff, signed to a couple of agencies. I ended up moving to Florida. Um, and then sort of the whole Giants thing and from there it went to radio and to wrestling.

• 13:55Bunnie XO?

  Okay, so now we circle back to when you got signed. You got signed by who was it again? Was it? No, you didn't say MTV. Who, who signed you?

• 14:04Speaker 02

  For the wrestling?

• 14:04Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 14:05Speaker 02

  So it was a company. It was called Lucha Libre USA and it was um, it was a show to be on MTV.

• 14:10Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 14:11Speaker 02

  So it was on MTV, MTV two, it was on the Latino MTV. Um, and, and yeah, I was thrown into wrestling. My first match, my first proper match was televised on live TV. So it's like crazy because a lot of times wrestling fans will be like this dumb bitch. She's only in wrestling because of Matt. She sucks. That's the only reason she had a chance. Like literally like this was. I had like months of training and thrown into it and that's it on TV bam. It wasn't like how most people, you know, years of training and. You know, going to a facility and you know, having indie matches. It was like boom, right away on TV with like veterans of wrestling.

• 14:45Bunnie XO?

  Sink or fuckin' swim.

• 14:46Speaker 02

  So yeah, it was like, yeah, go ahead bitch. Good luck.

• 14:49Bunnie XO?

  And so how did that first match turn out?

• 14:52Speaker 02

  I feel like they protect, the producers of the match protected me enough. It was like a six girl tag match at least. But I mean, I was so fucking scared. Cause you know, I didn't have.

• 15:04Bunnie XO?

  Those bitches are tough. They're rowdy dude.

• 15:06Speaker 02

  Oh my God. The, the people that had me in there too. I thought I was gonna die. And it's very like wrestling cult mentality, like the, the culture of wrestling. To like shit on the new girl and to like show her who's boss kind of thing. So in that match necessarily it really wasn't, but like that is sort of the whole. Feeling around wrestling in general, which is where I feel like a lot of my wrestling beef is started with. People are like, oh, this new bitch, she hasn't paid her dues, whatever the fuck like.

• 15:30Bunnie XO?

  It's like a pecking order.

• 15:31Speaker 02

  It really is. And it's like, a lot of those people got bullied coming up. And even if it was coming up 20 years ago, when, you know, the culture around wrestling and what was socially acceptable was a lot different. 20 years ago, people used to be shitting in people's bags, just to show them who's boss. And that was normal. You do that now, you're going to jail, you know what I mean? So it's like, those people went through that. And they're like, oh, who's this, you know, little pretty bitch coming up? And she thinks she's just gonna roll up in here and have a spot. And then especially once I started dating Matt, it was like, bullseye on this dumb bitch.

• 16:01Bunnie XO?

  So take me, take us into your wrestling career a little bit. So you, you did that first match. And then where does that go from there? How long after your first match, did you meet Matt?

• 16:10Speaker 02

  So we actually met on Twitter.

• 16:12Bunnie XO?

  Oh, really? Okay.

• 16:14Speaker 02

  The worst way to meet anybody, honestly.

• 16:16Bunnie XO?

  I mean, you could have said Tinder. So I mean, Twitter's better than Tinder.

• 16:20Speaker 02

  It's more embarrassing than that, I feel like. But I, I was doing, I started doing indie stuff. So I did it sort of backwards, right? It was like on TV. And then I started doing independent stuff. Locally. And I was doing a lot of announcing work. Cause I was still working in radio. So people sort of like, recognize me for being able to talk, kind of thing. Believe it or not.

• 16:36Bunnie XO?

  No, I think you're doing great.

• 16:38Speaker 02

  It's a very different life. And um, this girl on Twitter saw that I was gonna be at a show, or the show that saw that Matt was gonna be at a show. And she, she tweeted me, and I had just broken up with somebody. And I'm lamenting like, my life is up, very dramatic, fucking emo 2012 Twitter, you know, whatever. Yes, very much that. I'm gonna die. My life is up, very dramatic. So this girl, I guess, wrestling fan, seen it. And she was like, you know what? You should, you should try and talk with this guy, Matt Hardy. He's just, he's been through a breakup. And I don't even know what they were referencing, but bitch, I, I found out since. That she's like, he's been through a breakup and you've been, and you guys would be really great together. And he just like, wrote back like a colon parentheses.

• 17:20Speaker 02

  This is how long ago? Wasn't even emojis yet. Like winky face. Like, uh huh, yeah, sure. I'll let you know, you know, when the wedding is or whatever. And literally it just started with bullshit flirtations back and forth because like this random fan on Twitter decided that we needed to be together. Out of thin air.

• 17:38Bunnie XO?

  But that's destiny, you know, I mean, literally.

• 17:40Speaker 02

  I guess.

• 17:41Bunnie XO?

  If you think about, I mean, fuck, you guys have been together, what 10 years now, longer?

• 17:44Speaker 02

  13 years.

• 17:45Bunnie XO?

  13 years, like, that's obviously, that was definitely written in the cards. Okay, so you and Matt are fucking tweeting each other. When do you guys officially meet?

• 17:54Speaker 02

  So there was that show that that girl was saying, oh, you should, oh, so there was a show that he had that weekend and the fan persisted, right? Cause I probably would have just let it go. But the guy was like, are you gonna go see him? And I was like, how else are we supposed to consummate the marriage? Joke's on me, bitch. Hello, now look at me. But, you know, so I ended up actually getting booked on that show. So he was performing and I was booked as a, an announcer on that show. And then we met and from there it was like almost inseparable, like from that day. Crazy, yeah.

• 18:22Bunnie XO?

  Aww, look at your eyes light up when you talk about it. She's like, he drives me nuts, but I love him. Oh, I love that. So you guys get together, you deal with the backlash of his breakup, right? We don't really have to touch too much on it, because I know people go, are crazy.

• 18:36Speaker 02

  Today, yes.

• 18:37Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I see, I've seen it online and I'm like, bro, like they have fucking four kids together. They literally are been married 13 years, like, leave, leave her alone. So you can, you catch all this backlash. You know, how do you deal with everything that was getting thrown your way? Like the girls are picking on you and the wrestling and then, you know, you're dealing with the backlash from that. How did you guys kind of like come together and just buckle down?

• 19:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, man, it, it was hard. I really had a whole my own, but on top of it, at the time, he was going through like a shit time, like a ton of issues. So he was like always in the press, like getting in trouble and I was having to, you know, toe that line of not wanting to defend him because I was the one trying to pull him out of it. But also like not wanting people to shit on your man, kind of thing. So I got a lot of shit just for even sticking by him half the time. And, you know, we were young and dumb and probably not making the best choices. You know, he got out of rehab for one day and the first thing We did was like do a nude photo shoot like post and I look back and I'm like, what the fuck was I thinking, bro? But you know, I'm sure

• 19:43Speaker 02

  What the hell is this? You know, it probably looked fucking crazy, but you know, so it was a lot of backlash. Some of it was deserved because we I was I was just young and dumb and you know, just going with it. And I've always had like a very like troll mentality, like you're not about to talk crazy to me. Without having me talk back and I've calmed down a lot.

• 19:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it's hard because you can't win.

• 20:02Speaker 02

  But I'm like, you're not going to disrespect me. I don't care if it's if if you've if you got a screen behind you, if you don't mind. You want to say that to my face. I want to let that slide in person. Why am I going to let it slide now?

• 20:12Bunnie XO?

  Whiver in your presence.

• 20:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly. So it's like I I used to have to attack everybody. So.

• 20:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I've had to learn that this very past week. It's very hard to keep your mouth shut, especially when it's like you know, the whole story. And they don't and everybody's got a fucking opinion. My now I just tell people, you know, hopefully you can mind your business this week, you know, and they hate it because they're like, you too. And I'm like, this is on my page. You know, it's so hard not to go back and forth. So let's move forward. You and Matt have been together. You guys have created this beautiful life. How do you guys end up in North Carolina? How do you guys end up in North Carolina?

• 20:52Speaker 02

  So his he's from there. His whole family's from there, like for three hundred years. Just everyone's been born on the same block kind of thing. On the same, I say block, but you know.

• 21:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, well, you're from New York, so it makes sense.

• 21:04Speaker 02

  But yeah, I mean, and he'll and he'll never leave. I I've tried, especially before we had kids. Well, let's get a place in Florida. Let's get a place in New York. I tried to get him to buy my old apartment ten years ago and ten years ago was like five hundred thousand. That shit's like eight hundred thousand. I'm like, we should have bought it. You know, but he he he's just born and raised there. His whole family's from there forever. He will never leave. We'll be there forever.

• 21:26Bunnie XO?

  That's how country boys are. My husband will never leave Nashville. As much as he says he wants to, we're never gonna leave.

• 21:31Speaker 02

  Oh, he he don't even want to though. He's just like, this is it. That's all he knows. So.

• 21:37Bunnie XO?

  So you guys bought a hundred acres in North Carolina.

• 21:39Speaker 02

  It was just there.

• 21:40Bunnie XO?

  It was just there. Oh, you guys built, so you guys built your house on the acres.

• 21:44Speaker 02

  Yeah. So it's sort of like the family compound that was, it used to be like his dad's house and then like the house he grew up in across and then his sister's house. And the next to that was like another family house. It was like this huge plot of farmland. I think they used to be like tobacco farmers or something. So.

• 22:00Bunnie XO?

  Awesome.

• 22:00Speaker 02

  Matt had the forty acres on it and then we've sort of built on Jeff, his brother is next to us. And then across is their dad who's passed and then next to that is my dad.

• 22:12Bunnie XO?

  I love that. That is really awesome.

• 22:14Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 22:15Bunnie XO?

  Take me into the house. Where did you, have you always been into Gothic interior? Like, is that your thing? Like, take me on this journey of Gothic baby. Cause everybody is just obsessed with Gothic baby. That's what drew me in. That was the first video of yours I ever saw. I was like, look at this fucking baby. I was like, this is so amazing. And then I saw the, all your shit that you do. And I'm like, oh God, I'm following her. She's like inspiration, like for the decor and shit. Love it.

• 22:43Speaker 02

  I, I grew up, you know, that apartment that I grew up in Queens, I mentioned that my dad was the super of the building.

• 22:47Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 22:48Speaker 02

  So when people would die, he would like get, he would get first dibs on their apartment. You know what I mean? Like if next of kin didn't come and claim the stuff, it's going in the dump or my dad's taking it. You know what I mean? So we had this very eclectic mix of like antiques and, and old stuff and oddities and sort of weird stuff. So that was the apartment that I grew up in. It was very like mixed match and antique.

• 23:10Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 23:11Speaker 02

  So to me that was normal and I always thought that was the most beautiful thing. I didn't, never want anything modern or, you know, futuristic, even throughout like Y2K, everything's, you know, modern. I just, I wanted to live like in a castle my whole life. So even like, I feel like I would ask for Christmas for like, I want like a beauty in the beast mirror. But like, I would get like something pink and plastic and I'd be like, what the fuck is this?

• 23:31Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 23:31Speaker 02

  I wanted the. Carved wood, gilded, exactly. So that's sort of like my whole life, that was like goals, you know? So when I had, when I was pregnant with Gothic baby.

• 23:43Bunnie XO?

  Is she Evermore?

• 23:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 23:45Bunnie XO?

  I love the names.

• 23:46Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 23:47Bunnie XO?

  I love all, what is it? Maxel?

• 23:49Speaker 02

  Wolfgang.

• 23:51Bunnie XO?

  Bartholomew.

• 23:52Speaker 02

  Which I found out on Twitter is very controversial name Bartholomew, fuck.

• 23:56Bunnie XO?

  I didn't know that.

• 23:57Speaker 02

  I didn't either until I posted it. Apparently Bartholomew is like a name that you call somebody, like make fun of them or like, you think somebody's not cool? You just like Karen, you're like, okay Karen, if somebody's not cool, you say like, okay Bartholomew, like, I didn't know that.

• 24:09Bunnie XO?

  I've never heard that in my life.

• 24:10Speaker 02

  Me neither, bro. Now I feel like, god damn it, I didn't know that.

• 24:14Bunnie XO?

  That is insane. Okay, so when you were pregnant with Gothic baby?

• 24:18Speaker 02

  So she was my first girl after three boys and I have it in my head, like I'm a boy mom, that's, that's all I am. I don't know how to deal with girls, especially with all the horseshit with my mom. I didn't know how to have a relationship like with a mom or with a girl.

• 24:29Bunnie XO?

  You get to break the cycle.

• 24:30Speaker 02

  So, you know, the first girl after, sorry, Matt's over here like ASMR.

• 24:38Bunnie XO?

  It's okay, it's okay. Bro.

• 24:40Speaker 02

  So the first girl after three boys and I could either like go completely pink, ruffle glitter, like, you know, Barbie, or you know, maybe something more gender neutral, which is what I ended up going with. So the original intent for like the nursery was never, I was never like, I'm gonna make a Gothic nursery. It was like, I'm gonna do something neutral and try and make it like as luxe as I can without being modern. So to me, what does that mean? A lot of antiques, a lot of like draperies and stuff. And then even in just sharing that stuff, you know, and there's nothing inherently, I would say, Goth in her room. And I feel like there's a difference between like Goth and Gothic. Like Gothic, I feel like is more of a style aesthetic and architectural style. And Goth is more like the music scene or you know, the fashion or you know, maybe even into emo,

• 25:24Speaker 02

  whatever the hell, you know? So, but people were seeing that. I was just posting little bits here and there on my social media and people were just going crazy, like this poor child, living in a Gothic house, she has no color, like, you know.

• 25:36Bunnie XO?

  A huge fucking house.

• 25:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:38Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, poor child.

• 25:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, like we just put her in this one room all day. That's all it's gonna be. So the whole Gothic baby thing started as like a satirical response like to what these people were saying like, oh, this Gothic baby just mopes around all day surrounded by darkness. Literally, I didn't mean for it to be a series. It was just me like, you know, like wanting a troll, like being sarcastic, like, yes, my poor fucking child, Gothic baby.

• 26:03Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 26:04Speaker 02

  And that's how it happened. If it popped off and people really liked it, and I was like, well.

• 26:08Bunnie XO?

  More than popped off. It's literally just viral. Everybody knows Gothic baby now, which is fucking insane. She's like, she's like, damn it, I get showed up by my husband and then I get showed up by my fucking kid.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  I've always said I am the least popular person in my family.

• 26:22Bunnie XO?

  Not true, though, because you're probably the glue that holds everybody together, you know?

• 26:26Speaker 02

  That that is true.

• 26:26Bunnie XO?

  I feel like us wives, we don't get enough fucking credit, you know, but it is what it is. So do you have plans on like branding Gothic baby or like trademarking it?

• 26:36Speaker 02

  In the middle of writing a children's book and it's sort of like based on her and inclusivity and that kind of thing. Um, and I mean, I would love to take it to the moon, you know, I love doing it. It very much fits like our our organic family dynamic and how we actually live and what our house really is, you know, it's not like a front or anything. It just, it started because that's what the hell was happening in my house, you know, so it would be great to to keep on going with that.

• 27:03Bunnie XO?

  Are you gonna put the kids into it too? The other kids, the older ones?

• 27:07Speaker 02

  The younger ones, it's funny because anytime Bartholomew, bless his heart, poor thing. We call it, it's Barty, you know, Barty Hardy, it rhymes, you know?

• 27:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 27:17Speaker 02

  Poor thing. I didn't know about the Barty. Okay.

• 27:19Bunnie XO?

  I ain't never, that's news to me. I am so tired of the internet, though, girl. You caught me on the right week because I am just the fucking internet is so sensitive, dude. Like, you can't do anything right.

• 27:29Speaker 02

  You can't do anything, period. Yeah.

• 27:31Bunnie XO?

  You're damned if you do, you're damned if you're don't. So just fucking live your life. Fuck them. Like, who cares? Love you guys, but fuck you. Okay?

• 27:38Speaker 02

  No, I feel you there. But but anytime we even see anything black or like, you know, for example, I like have my nails done, right? And they're like, you know, they're darker, they're black. And the first thing that Barty says, he comes in, he says, Gothic baby nails. Like, anything black is like Gothic baby. And, you know, they see their sister, you know, when I do my little bits and stuff with her, and they, he's always trying to get in, you know, they always want to be in. And even our first kid, you know, he was on the road with us at wrestling shows on TV from the time he was four months old.

• 28:06Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 28:06Speaker 02

  Like, literally traveling the world. He's been to like, four different continents at this point, at like, one, you know, so they're just, we're just a showbiz family. That's just sort of how it is, you know, a lot of people.

• 28:16Bunnie XO?

  Why have they not done a reality show on you guys yet?

• 28:18Speaker 02

  We're actually talking to a bunch of people now, but I don't want to jinx anything.

• 28:22Bunnie XO?

  I was like, if not, I'll produce it with my fucking production company. That shit would be amazing, dude.

• 28:26Speaker 02

  Oh, but I, I agree. There's so, there's so many different things that that are happening at any given time that I feel like are weird and different, but.

• 28:33Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. I hate the whole reality show thing because it takes forever for the networks and like the filming, the sizzle. We've been doing it with Chelsea Handler for fucking, since 2018? Or when was it? When did we meet her? Yeah, 2018. And it is a fucking process, dude.

• 28:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, takes forever. That just scares me because I'm like, first of all, she's not gonna be a baby forever.

• 28:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 28:56Speaker 02

  And then secondly, you gotta like, strike while the iron's hot, you know? And I'm very impatient as a person.

• 29:01Bunnie XO?

  That's what I just did with me.

• 29:02Speaker 02

  So I'm, it might end up being.

• 29:04Bunnie XO?

  I'll help you. We'll talk about it whenever we're done with this interview, like, for real.

• 29:09Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 29:09Bunnie XO?

  That would be awesome. To go out there and like, film for a few weeks and just get, get a whole thing for you guys.

• 29:14Speaker 02

  We would be down. Yeah, we would love that.

• 29:17Bunnie XO?

  I'll talk to you about it after this. Um, but yeah, so, okay, so you guys still, are you still wrestling or no?

• 29:24Speaker 02

  No.

• 29:24Bunnie XO?

  Matt is still wrestling?

• 29:25Speaker 02

  He is, yeah.

• 29:26Bunnie XO?

  That's crazy that fucking, how long has he been in the business?

• 29:30Speaker 02

  Do you want to come? Say hi?

• 29:31Bunnie XO?

  He's eating. He doesn't have to.

• 29:32Speaker 02

  It's okay.

• 29:36Speaker 02

  Thirty one years.

• 29:37Bunnie XO?

  Thirty one years, like that's fucking insanity. But do you you think that your boys are gonna follow in his footsteps?

• 29:44Speaker 02

  You know, when they were younger, it was like literally all they were about. And you know, you'd ask them, what do you want to be when you grow up? And we would I homeschool. So we do our little board every year for, you know, the beginning of the

• 29:53Bunnie XO?

  Fucking super mom.

• 29:55Speaker 02

  Thank you. And you know, it would say, what do you want to be when you grow up? And it was always Russell, Russell, Russell. I feel like the older one, which is the one that was on TV, he literally had a match on TV when he was one years old, like insane. I feel like he's almost like a jaded vet, like he's over it. It's funny. The other two are very much like the younger ones are are very much into it. We have a wrestling ring in our house. So like, they're always asking to go out there and, you know, the little, little one is is in jujitsu right now. So it's, I feel, I'm scared. I'm almost scared to say it because I know how the business is. Like, I want them to do it because it would be cool. And obviously, like, carry on the Hardy legacy and, you know, it makes sense. But at the same time, I'm like, I've been there. I know what it's like. And that scares the shit out of me. So

• 30:37Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:38Speaker 02

  Just gonna, it's, it's

• 30:39Bunnie XO?

  Whenever that that comes, you guys will deal with it as it comes.

• 30:43Speaker 02

  I I guess. I don't even want to think about it, honestly.

• 30:45Bunnie XO?

  What if she is like, I want to be the wrestler?

• 30:48Speaker 02

  No. Hard fucking no.

• 30:50Bunnie XO?

  Gothic baby, the wrestler.

• 30:51Speaker 02

  I'm sorry. I let her have complete body and personal life autonomy until then.

• 30:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:57Speaker 02

  The fuck you are.

• 30:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, like, no, you're not fucking doing it.

• 31:00Speaker 02

  Girl, I've been there. Uh oh. You don't, you don't want this.

• 31:03Bunnie XO?

  Well, what do you think Gothic, the whole thing for you, your family, Gothic baby? What do you see it in 2022? Or twenty, sorry, wrong year. What do you see for 2023? Gothic baby, your brand, all that stuff. What would you want to manifest if you could manifest something right now?

• 31:20Speaker 02

  I would love to have like a like a reality series or something and make it sort of like a modern day Addams Family, you know? Not not tie myself, you know, not too close to that whole thing. But I mean, it is a huge part, you know, sort of like the Osbournes were like the cool alt reality family back in the day. I feel like, you know, we could, there's not really that much representation, I feel like, for alt people. That's positive, at least. And I feel like, you know, You have that style and we do have that lifestyle and that aesthetic, but you know, we're also, I don't know, I would say fairly wholesome. We're pretty cool. There's a lot going on. I feel like that'd be cool to share because

• 31:56Bunnie XO?

  Extremely wholesome.

• 31:57Speaker 02

  There's already so many like misconceptions about every single person in this family at this point that it would be nice to like one, clear the air and then two, like just share the, the good parts.

• 32:06Bunnie XO?

  I think it'll be awesome and I think it will happen for you guys because you guys have a very, I love whenever he gets in the TikToks too, because he's like my husband. My husband hates to get in the TikToks. And you can tell he's like

• 32:16Speaker 02

  Posted something the other day and I was like, I, I forget what it was that he was saying, but I was like, oh my God, this is like literally word for word, what my husband would say.

• 32:22Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, Jay hates it. He always says, you can be the online persona and I'm the fucking musician. Like he's like, I just want to be mysterious. And I'm like, okay, well mysterious this on my TikTok.

• 32:32Speaker 02

  There you go.

• 32:33Bunnie XO?

  He gets so mad. He's like fucking TikTok. Well, Reby, I really enjoyed having you here. Thank you for coming by. Why don't you tell people where they can find you? Shout out your TikTok, Instagram, anything you want to plug?

• 32:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, just tag me on TikTok. It's at Reby Hardy, R E B Y Hardy. On Instagram is Reby Sky. Someone stole my name. Can't get it back, but yeah, other than that, that's it.

• 32:53Bunnie XO?

  Damn it. Thank you so much for coming.

• 32:57Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 32:57Bunnie XO?

  Really appreciate you. Thank you guys for tuning into another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.