Nikki Garcia Has Plenty of 'Eye Candy' at 2025 Super Bowl as Sister Brie Is 'Excited' to See Her 'Have Some Fun' Again (Exclusive)

Nikki Garcia and Artem Chigvintsev settled their divorce in November 2024, months after he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence

Nikki Garcia is embracing the single life!

The Total Bellas alum, 41, spoke with PEOPLE on Radio Row ahead of the 2025 Super Bowl alongside her twin sister Brie Garcia. After a tumultuous year — in which Nikki got divorced from husband Artem Chigvintsev — the two say they are grateful to have one another, but Brie confesses things certainly haven’t been easy.

“It's been hard because I'm a fixer, so I want to fix it for her,” she explains. “I want to do it and I'm very vocal, so I want to do it loudly and express myself. So I have to always be tame, which is hard. It's hard because you hate seeing someone you love go through something hard.”

“But also, I told her, I'm like, ‘It's kind of weird.’ It's like, we learn from each other and we grow together, [but] I didn't think at 41 I'd still have more growth, but I do,” Brie continues. “There's no one I would rather be on this life journey with than her. And my husband too. But with her, it's like we really are unapologetically, with our flaws, we're just unapologetic about it, and I love it.”

Brie Bella and Nikki Bella attend SiriusXM At Super Bowl LVII on February 10, 2023
Brie and Nikki Garcia.

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One perk that comes with Nikki being back on the market, Brie says, is that they get to scope out new men – especially at the Super Bowl.

“Last night, I was like, ‘Nicole, like, this is your first time being single at Super Bowl,’” Brie teases her sister. “Like, I already am thinking and listening.”

Nikki chimed in to say that she is “still healing,” and adds: “I feel like she’s more excited about it than me!

“Sure,” Brie concedes. “I'm in an amazing marriage. We've been married 10 years, together 14, and I’m like, ‘I get to have some fun through you now.’”

And despite her hesitation, Nikki admits she does feel some excitement for the weekend.

“I would be lying if I wasn't like, ‘Oh,’” she jokes, looking around the room. “There is a lot of eye candy. All the muscles and the fashion, it’s just like all the men, the manly men.”

Brie Bella (L) and Nikki Bella attend SiriusXM's Town Hall With The Bella Twins at SiriusXM Studios on November 19, 2021
Brie Garcia (left) and Nikki Garcia.

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Brie then notes that the fashion of football players is “on point,” and Nikki agrees.

“It’s sexy,” she says. “That's what I have to say [that] football players bring. It's like, they are so fashionable, but it's masculine.”

Proceeding to gush over the athletes’ “confidence,” Nikki says, “It's always mainly the football players, right? They just walk and they have it. It's a different swagger.”

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Nikki filed for divorce in September 2024, just weeks after Chigvintsev was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence at their Napa Valley home. The district attorney later declined to press charges, citing a lack of evidence.

The exes, who share a 4-year-old son named Matteo, reached a settlement agreement in private mediation in November.

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