“Don’t want to see her mom half-naked”- Julianna Pena leaves controversial remarks about ‘marketing her the right way’

“Don’t want to see her mom half-naked”- Julianna Pena leaves controversial remarks about ‘marketing her the right way’

Julianna Pena

Julianna Pena achieved the unthinkable when she submitted Amanda Nunes to claim the women’s bantamweight title at UFC 269. Julianna’s victory is regarded as the biggest upset in UFC history. Amanda Nunes is regarded as the greatest female fighter on this planet and defeating her is no small feat.

She’s been talking a lot about her career, and the way things go around in the UFC. She is now starring opposite Nunes in the latest installment of The Ultimate Fighter, they are scheduled to run it back at UFC 277, and this fight is could change Pena’s future for better or for worse.

Regardless, she has established herself as a prominent figure in the MMA community, and she’s glad she built her brand in a way where she isn’t doing anything reckless to stay relevant. To be more specific, she is glad she didn’t resort to using her body to gain some followers or earn some extra money.

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“I don’t have to take my clothes off”- Julianna Pena is taking a more classy approach in her career

Julianna Pena
Julianna Pena

Talking about it during her appearance on The Barstool Chicago’s ‘RebuildED Podcast,’ she said, “I think that it’s (physical insecurities) helped me in a way, because it’s easy to take your clothes off and sell something on Instagram, and be this sexy model, but I’m trying to do it in the classy way, where it’s like, I don’t have to take my clothes off to get people invested in what I do,” (H/T BJPenn.com)

She added, “So, it’s almost like, a thing that’s benefited me in another way as well, because I’ve got a daughter and I want to set a great example for her. I don’t want her to, years from now, be on Instagram and see her mom being half-naked.” (H/T BJPenn.com)

“I’m not trying to knock anybody for doing that, you know, get your paper boo-boo, do what you gotta do. But for me, it’s put me in a situation where I have to market myself in a different way that’s not about taking my clothes off and trying to be a ‘sex sells’ kind of person,” Pena concluded. (H/T BJPenn.com)

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