Dwayne Johnson Says People Thought He Was A Girl When He Was A Child

To look at Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson today, you wouldn’t think he’d be mistaken for anyone but a muscular male.

But the former pro-wrestler-turned-actor revealed in a recent interview that when he was a boy, he often got mistaken for a girl.

“Just drippin’ cool with my buck teeth, aloha shirt and WTF is going on with my afro matted down on one side!?” he said.

“I sit down next to a kid, and within 60 seconds, he goes, ‘Can I ask you something?'” The Rock recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘Are you a boy or a girl?'”

Johnson didn’t say anything back and joked that he then punched the kid out. But the now 6-foot 5-inch, 260-ish-pound, bald Johnson doesn’t have problems being recognized as a man today.

Johnson also discussed how he had lived in about 13 states by the time he was in high school and how his ex-pro-wrestler father wasn’t thrilled that he decided to become a wrestler himself.

In March 2021, he shared a few throwback photos of him as a kid with Andre “the Giant” Rene Roussimoff, timed with the “Young Rock” episode featuring the famous wrestler. Johnson joked that Andre might have taken a particular liking to him “because we both had afros.”

Here he is with his father in a picture from 1981, posted to Imgur by ChroniclyDope.

He was a successful University of Miami football player before transitioning into wrestling as “The Rock” after a pro football career didn’t work out. Johnson had his big acting breaking when he appeared as the Scorpion King in “The Mummy Returns.” Since then he’s become one of the world’s best-paid actors thanks to a series of successful movies including parts in the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, “Jumanji” and its sequel and “Moana.”

As it turns out, he isn’t shy about referring to his feminine side. In an image he posted in 2014 of himself in the ’90s, he refers to himself as a “buff lesbian.”

Do you think Dwayne Johnson looked like a girl as a child?