Taken from WCW Magazine
Written by Amy Bell
Typed up by Chris Spirito

Sitting Pretty
As Miss Hancock, Stacy Keibler gets a leg up on a career in the entertainment field:

Stacy Keibler has lived in the same house in Baltimore her entire life. She attended a small, all girls Catholic high school where all the students knew each other. She currently is a student at Towson University in Maryland working towards a degree in mass communications.

But when this stunning blonde struts her mile-long legs down the walkway at WCW events, she is not the sweet Keibler her friends and family know. Keibler morphs into Miss Hancock, the rebellious WCW Standards and Practices secretary. She springs onto the announcers' table, shakes her blonde tresses from their restrictive bun, indignantly tosses her glasses aside and breaks into a provocative dance, bumping and grinding until her miniscule skirt rides up to shocking heights.

The amazing transformation is quite simple for the talented starlet. Keibler seemingly was destined for the entertainment world from the time she could walk. From dance competitions to modeling to movie appearances, Keibler has dabbled in practically every medium that could transport the bombshell to celebrity status.

"I've been dancing since I was 3 years old," Keibler says. "By the time I was in eighth grade I danced every day of the week and went to three different dance schools. Dance has always been a big part of my life."

Once she graduated from high school, Keibler became a cheerleader for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens for two years and discovered her affinity for performing in front of crowds. "I don't get nervous-I'd rather perform in front of an entire arena than in front of seven of my family members," she says.

Standing 5'11", Keibler was a natural for runway modeling, and she also made appearances in the movies "Pecker," by John waters and "Liberty Heights," by Barry Levinson.

Keibler says her role as Miss Hancock has been her greatest experience in the entertainment industry. "When I was little, I always told my mom I wanted to be on television. I've been an extra in movies and have done modeling, but this is the best thing I've ever done," she says.

WCW discovered Keibler during the 1999 Nitro Girl Search. An avid wrestling fan who has not missed a Nitro for the past three years, Keibler heard the Nitro Girls were beginning a nationwide search for a new member. "I saw the auditions were coming to Philadelphia, which is about an hour and a half from Baltimore. So I thought I'd just go because you never know. And anyway, I thought I could end up with the $10,000 prize."

When she won the contest, Keibler cried tears of shocked amazement. "I was so surprised when they announced my name," she says. "I guess they liked what I have to offer, and it was just my time. I didn't know what to expect of the position because it was called an understudy, so I thought I'd only be on television one or two times. But the next week I was on TV, and I kept returning and dancing on the shows every week."

After a few weeks of dancing with the Nitro Girls as Skye, Keibler was approached by WCW's Bill Banks. "I was rehearsing with the Nitro Girls in Houston when he came up to me and said, "Stacey, we have a part that would be perfect for you. We're bringing Lenny and Lodi back as Standards and Practices and we want you to be their secretary.' I left practice and took off with Lenny and Lodi to shop for new costumes, and we came back with our suits. We debuted as Standards and Practices on Nitro that night."

After weeks of switching back and forth between Skye and Miss Hancock, Keibler was exhausted. "It was very hard to plan my schedule for each show. I couldn't dance in certain Nitro Girl numbers because I was working on a pre-tape as Miss Hancock. It was crazy; my hair was up and down, up and down," Keibler says. Finally, WCW writers decided Keibler should play the role of Miss Hancock permanently and give up dancing with the Nitro Girls. "I was a little upset because dancing is my passion, but this was a good step for me. And I love Miss Hancock's character," she says.

Miss Hancock is an interesting dame, to say the least. The classy, intellectual secretary takes pride in jotting notes on her clipboard whenever she notices anything during WCW shows that she deems crude or inappropriate. Yet the sophisticated seductress seems to be living a double standard when she hikes up her skirt and goes into a dancing fit or enthusiastically flirts with wrestlers. "Miss Hancock can take notes on a wrestler doing something improper one minute, and then lean over and show her butt the next minute. It's OK for her to do such things, but it's not OK for anyone else to break the rules," Keibler says.

What do Keibler's friends and family think of her revealing episodes as Miss Hancock? "My dad was watching the show the first night I got up on the announcers' table and danced. I called him after the show and asked him what he thought. He said, "That was really good, but do you think you could get a longer skirt?" she says while laughing.

Keibler misses her family and friends while traveling with WCW but she's definitely not lonely. "I love to come home and split my time between my family and friends, but on the road I have a new family," she says. "When you're with people from WCW all the time, you learn to make friends very quickly." Keibler enjoys hanging out with 3-Count, Johnny the Bull, David Flair and Torrie Wilson. "Most of us joined WCW around the same time, and we're close in age, so we just clicked," she says.

Keibler's time consists of more than bonding with fellow WCW entertainers and dancing in short skirts as Miss Hancock. Along with her demanding WCW career, Keibler maintains a 3.7 grade-point average at Towson University. "I'm still a full-time student, but I might take some time off next semester," she says. "School is always there for me to go back to, but my ultimate goal is to be in the entertainment industry, and I've already made it."