# WWE: Was Stephanie McMahon recast?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 28, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948 "2006-01-28T03:23:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948/1 "2006-01-28T03:23:10Z")
I haven’t watched wrestling with any regularity for five years or more. Last time was around the whole Stephanie/Triple H marriage business, maybe a little after. Anyways, in flipping through the channels a while back I stumble across one or another of the WWE shows and there’s someone identified as Stephanie McMahon, and she looks completely different. Then earlier tonight I see a promo for a WWE PPV event featuring all four of the McMahons, and “Stephanie” _really_ looks different. Taller, face is longer, just seems overall bigger than I remember. I checked IMDB and there’s nothing there that indicates Stephanie is anyone but Stephanie, but my goodness she doesn’t look like the same person.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948/2 "2006-01-28T03:39:32Z")
She could look bigger due to her breast augmentation of a few years ago and her current pregnancy but you must be misremembering the rest. Wrestling, while scripted, isn’t exactly a movie or a television show and the vast majority of the characters are proprietary, especially the daughter of the owner and chairman of the company.
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### Author:  [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948/3 "2006-01-28T03:42:20Z")
Yeah, Little Steph has changed a lot since her early appearances. She’s gotten implants and a nose job, plus she’s carrying the Antichri… I mean Triple HHHH’s kid. It wouldn’t surprise me if she’s had other work done too.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948/4 "2006-01-28T03:50:27Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Wrestling, while scripted, isn’t exactly a movie or a television show and the vast majority of the characters are proprietary, especially the daughter of the owner and chairman of the company.
I know Stephanie’s a real person, but haven’t there been, for example, multiple people who wrestled under the name (and mask) of Kane? I know he doesn’t wear the mask any more but back in the masked days I thought I remembered hearing that. There isn’t anything really _stopping_ them from hiring some actress to play Stephanie if they wanted to, other than fans maybe not accepting the change.
> [@brianjedi](#):
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> Yeah, Little Steph has changed a lot since her early appearances. She’s gotten implants and a nose job, plus she’s carrying the Antichri… I mean Triple HHHH’s kid.
She and HHH are together IRL? Or is she knocked up by someone else and it’s only HHH’s kid for storyline purposes?
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948/5 "2006-01-28T04:03:38Z")
Nope. Glenn Jacobs has always been Kane (and Jim Hellwig has always been The Ultimate Warrior) but before he got his current character, he did have a brief stint as (fake) Diesel, a character created for and played by Kevin Nash. The uproar over that was so loud that it will be a very long time before Vince ever tries something like that again outside of the Max Moons and Doink the Clowns of the wrestling world.
Stephanie and Paul Levesque (HHH) are a real couple. They became close while married in storylines and married a year or two ago. The child is his.
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### Author:  [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwe-was-stephanie-mcmahon-recast/341948/6 "2006-01-28T04:11:10Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Nope. Glenn Jacobs has always been Kane (and Jim Hellwig has always been The Ultimate Warrior) but before he got his current character, he did have a brief stint as (fake) Diesel, a character created for and played by Kevin Nash. The uproar over that was so loud that it will be a very long time before Vince ever tries something like that again outside of the Max Moons and Doink the Clowns of the wrestling world.
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> Stephanie and Paul Levesque (HHH) are a real couple. They became close while married in storylines and married a year or two ago. The child is his.
He was also Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS before the Fake Diesel gimmick.