Trinidad in October 2012
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Birth name | Thea Megan Trinidad |
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Born |
Queens, New York City, New York, United States |
December 27, 1990
Residence | Tampa, Florida, United States |
Spouse(s) | Austin Aries (engaged) |
Website | www.theatrinidad.com |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Divina Fly Rosita Thea Trinidad |
Billed height | 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) |
Billed weight | 99 lb (45 kg) |
Billed from | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |
Trained by | Javi-Air Azrieal T.J. Perkins Arturo Beristain Tony Salazar |
Debut | February 20, 2010 |
Thea Megan Trinidad (born December 27, 1990) is an American professional wrestler, model, actress, and zumba instructor. She is best known for her work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where she performed under the ring name Rosita. She currently works for other independent promotions under her real name. In TNA, she was a one-time Knockouts Tag Team Champion with .
Trinidad was born in Queens, New York. She is of Puerto Rican descent. She grew up watching professional wrestling with her father Michael and younger brother Timothy. Her parents divorced when she and her brother were still young, while still remaining friends. She also practised swimming and baseball. When Trinidad was ten years old, her father was killed in the September 11 attacks; he had worked as a telecom analyst for the firm Cantor Fitzgerald at the World Trade Center. He was on the 103rd floor of the North Tower when it collapsed. Trinidad's mother, Monique Ferrer, approached StoryCorps with the story of how she and her husband had met and what she experienced on the day of the attacks with his death, which StoryCorps used to create a short cartoon titled Always a Family, as a way of honoring his memory.
Trinidad has said it was because of her father that made her enter the wrestling business. She was featured in an NBC special, titled Children of 9/11, on September 5, 2011. Growing up, Trinidad also worked as a counselor on a camp for children that had lost parents on 9/11 and also participated in charitable causes such as Habitat for Humanity after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans with Tuesday's Children. At the age of 17, Trinidad began training under Javi-Air, Azrieal, and T.J. Perkins.