It’s a happy 40th birthday of WWE Chief Brand Officer and wife of Triple H, Stephanie McMahon-Levesque.
Born Stephanie Marie McMahon in Hartford, Connecticut, she's the only daughter to Vince and Linda McMahon.
She’s the granddaughter to Vincent James McMahon, and the great-grandaughter to Roderick “Jess” McMahon, making her a fourth-generation McMahon.
Happy Birthday to the stunning and succesful Stephanie McMahon, who turns 40 years old today!!!
Stephanie actually began her WWE career as a model, appearing in their merchandise catalogs starting at age 13 in 1989.She attended Boston University and earned a degree in communications in 1998. After graduating, she rejoined the family business as a receptionist, but also worked in creative design, television production, and beginning in 1999, as an in-ring performer (save for a cameo appearance on an episode of RAW in late 1998).
Stephanie's first major storyline came shortly after Wrestlemania XV when she was being stalked (and eventually abducted) by The Undertaker.
She was rescued by Stone Cold Steve Austin, who was being played as a pawn in Vince McMahon's sick mind game to screw with Austin's life.
Stephanie would begin an on-screen relationship with Test shortly thereafter, much to the dismay of Stephanie's brother Shane.
Stephanie's in-ring debut came in September 1999, when she and Test defeated Jeff Jarrett and Debra. The couple got engaged and were set to marry, but during the ceremony, it was revealed that Triple H drugged her and took her to Las Vegas where they "got married" in a drive-through wedding chapel.
It turned out to be a revenge plot concocted by Triple H and Stephanie to get back at Vince McMahon for being used in those kidnappings and such.
The couple would dominate and rule the WWF with an iron fist for the first half of 2000, with Triple H holding the WWF Championship and Stephanie holding the Womens Championship.
The family-most of them-reconciled their differences around this time.
The on-screen romance blossomed into an off-screen relationship, though questions surrounded the union.
Joanie Laurer, aka Chyna, was in a relationship with Triple H prior to being with Stephanie, and had accused her of initiating her firing from the WWF.
Paul Levesque, aka Triple H, disputes such a claim, saying the two were apart for sometime before he dated Stephanie.
Following the disillusion of the McMahon-Helmsley faction, Stephanie was involved in a love triangle with husband and Kurt Angle.
Around this time, Stephanie lost the Womens title to Lita. After their plan to take the WWF Championship off The Rock failed, Angle and Triple H feuded, with Helmsley winning following a low blow to Angle from Stephanie.
After feuding briefly with Trish Stratus in early 2001, Stephanie McMahon became the on-screen owner of ECW as part of the Alliance.
When the Alliance was ousted at Survivor Series 2001, Stephanie briefly disappeared from TV, but returned again in January 2002 as a clingy wife to Triple H. After faking a pregnancy, Triple H divorced her, leaving the former power couple to feud through shortly after Wrestlemania X-8.
By the time Stephanie returned to television in the summer, the WWF had become the WWE as she was installed as the general manager of Smackdown, and in a bit of a surprise, she became a fan favorite, a stark contrast to her previous persona.
She feuded with fellow general manager, RAW's Eric Bischoff, for most of the remainder of the year.
Stephanie would feud with her father Vince for most of 2003, conflicting largely on Vince's pursuit of having an affair with Sable. The feud culminated in a father-daughter "I Quit" match at No Mercy in October, with Stephanie McMahon losing via her mother Linda throwing in the towel on her behalf.
Shortly after Stephanie was written off, she and Triple H got married.
She would make sporadic on-air appearances over the next few years; during which time, Stephanie became executive vice-president of the WWE's Creative department, overseeing all of the company's storylines for their television and PPV shows and many of their social media properties, including the WWE app and WWE.com. On-screen, she briefly became the general manager of RAW.
Stephanie returned to the company full-time on screen in August 2013 in support of her husband Triple H, once again turning her heel, saying that Daniel Bryan wasn't suitable to be the face of the WWE. That November, she would sign a performer's contract, allowing her to appear regularly on WWE programming.
Triple H and Stephanie together make up "The Authority", a power couple that justifies their actions as best for business.
Stephanie's character during that time was that of an insincerely polite owner. At Summerslam in 2014, in her first WWE match since the I Quit match at No Mercy in 2003, Stephanie McMahon defeated Brie Bella. Her last physical interaction in WWE was when she had arm nearly broken at the hands of UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey at Wrestlemania 31.
oday, Stephanie serves as WWE's chief brand officer, basically responsible for enhancing the brand's reputation among its business partners, investors, and media.
She also serves as the company's lead ambassador. On-screen, she serves as the Commissioner of the RAW brand.
She’s also working on her memoir; it’s scheduled to be released sometime next year.
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