Thea Megan Trinidad was born on December 27 , 1990 , in Queens , New York . She is of Puerto Rican descent . She grew up watching professional wrestling with her father Michael and younger brother Timothy , and was inspired by Rey Mysterio . Her parents divorced when she and her brother were still young , while still remaining friends . She also practiced 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
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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