Nikki and Brie Bella.Photo: brie bella/instagram
If you have a hard time tellingNikki BellaandBrie Bellaapart, you’re not alone.
In a new episode ofThe Bellas Podcast, Brie and Nikki, both 38, reveal that their kids are often confused between their mom and aunt, who are identical twins.
“Brie’s kids get so confused with her and I,” Nikki admitted. “Buddy goes, ‘Mama.’ And I go, ‘No, it’s Dodo’… He wouldn’t like, let it go.”
“He wouldn’t stop,” Brie agreed. “Yesterday he wakes up from a nap. I walk in there and he literally does this big back bump and he goes, ‘No, Dodo. No.’ And I’m like, ‘No, it’s Mama.'”
“I had to like squat down and like look through the crib handlebars. And I was like ‘Bud-Bud, it’s Mama,'” Brie continued. “And then finally he stopped crying and he goes, ‘Mama?’ And I’m like, ‘Don’t I have a, a certain scent?’ "
Brie and husband Daniel Bryan, 41, share sonBuddy Dessert, 23 months, and daughter Birdie Joe, 5. Nikki shares 23-month-old sonMatteo ArtemovichwithArtem Chigvintsev, 40.
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The twins and their families recently enjoyed a Lake Tahoe trip together. Nikki shared on the podcast that during the trip, son Matteo came down with “a really bad stomach bug.”
“This has been the biggest challenge yet as a mom. It makes you so emotional and you break down. Like we’re having so much fun [on vacation], why did this have to happen?” she continued. “But to see your little one in so much pain, and you can’t do anything…”
“Because you think we’ll get through this and it’ll never happen again, and then it’ll happen again,” Brie noted.
After the episode was recorded, Nikki offered an update on her son’s health with a post onInstagram.
“Someone is feeling better for our last day of vacay at the lake ❤️,” she wrote alongside adorable photos of Matteo enjoying the outdoors.
Nikki Bella Instagram; Mike Coppola/Getty Images
In April, theTotal Bellasspoke toEntertainment Tonightabout the sweet bond their sons have with one another.
“They are just wild. Our boys are wild,” Nikki told the outlet of their sons, who are the same age.
“Yeah, we have been used to these wild boys,” Brie added. “It’s funny because they are already a perfect little tag team.”
source: people.com
