Gabbi Tuft is ready to show the world who she is.

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Tuft, a former WWE wrestling star, announced she is

transgender this week.

“This is me,” she wrote in an Instagram post comingout as transgender. “Unashamed, unabashedly me.”

The former wrestler was active in the WWE from

2009-2012 under the ring name “Tyler Reks.” In 2012, she left WWE

fame to spend more time with her wife, Priscilla, and their daughter.

But her post-wrestling life wasn’t always smooth

sailing.

“The previous eight months have been some of

the darkest of my entire life,” Tuft wrote on Instagram. “The

emotional turmoil of being transgender and having to face the world has almost

ended me on multiple occasions.”

“However,”

she said, “the day I stopped caring about what other people thought, was

the day I truly became limitless and allowed my authentic self to come into the

light.”

Before retiring in

2014, the former WWE superstar was intimidating opponents in TV events like Raw, SmackDownand Wrestlemania.