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. Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) was born from an unplanned pregnancy.
. Hogan grew up as a shy, soft-spoken fat kid, who never took his shirt off at beaches as he felt he needed a bra.
. Hogan watched professional wrestling for the first time as an eight-year-old and thought the violence was real so he got scared and tried his hand at baseball and bowling instead.
. Hogan dropped out of school to start a rock band named Ruckus with two friends and went on a tour with the group, after which his parents threw him out of the house.
. Hogan’s father Pietro did not approve of his son being a wrestler as he felt professional wrestling was like a circus performance.
. In 2009, following Hogan’s divorce from his first wife Linda Claridge, he revealed that he contemplated suicide.
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