Rebecca Curci spent roughly two years performing on live television as part of WCW's Nitro Girls dance troupe, going by the name Whisper. The nickname came from a small habit she had at the end of each routine: pressing a finger to her lips.
Michaels saw her on screen in 1998 and, by his own account in his autobiography, watched every subsequent episode of Nitro just to catch a glimpse of her. A friend eventually got him her number. They were married less than a year later in a Las Vegas chapel, with nobody else in the room except an Elvis impersonator.
The couple have a son, Cameron Kade, born in January 2000, and a daughter, Cheyenne Michelle, born in August 2004. They have lived on a ranch outside San Antonio for most of their marriage and have largely stayed out of the public eye ever sinc