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She became interested in bodybuilding at the age of 12 after being introduced to the local gym owner who happened to be a female competitor. After graduating Cozad High School, she moved to Denver, Colorado. In 1998, Heather moved to Texas where she lived in Houston, San Antonio, and finally Dallas. In 2001, she moved back to Denver where she ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of female professional bodybuilders. All people listed here have an IFBB pro card.
Prior to 1977, bodybuilding had been considered strictly a male-oriented sport. Henry McGhee, described as the "primary architect of competitive female bodybuilding", was an employee of the Downtown Canton YMCA, carried a strong belief that women should share the opportunity to display their physiques and the results of their weight training the way men had done for years.
Nataliya Kuznetsova, also spelled Natalia (née Trukhina; born July 1, 1991), is a Russian professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Kuznetsova began powerlifting at fourteen years of age in an attempt to gain muscle mass. [2] [3]
Chizevsky-Nicholls was the first female bodybuilder to win both the Ms. International and Olympia in the same year in 1996. She ranks as the best female bodybuilder in the IFBB Pro Women's Bodybuilding Ranking List until October 22, 2000. [8] [9] In January 2008, Chizevsky was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame. [1] [10]
She was a groundbreaker in making wrestling videos and short action movies that catered to fans of women's bodybuilding. Many believed that Baxter was the female bodybuilder in the 1985 Billboard top 3 song "California Girls", by David Lee Roth whom she trained at Gold's Gym in Venice, CA, but this was actually Teagan Clive.
Ernestine Shepherd (born June 16, 1936) is an American bodybuilder who is best known for being, at one point, the oldest competitive female bodybuilder in the world, as declared by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2010 and 2011; [1] as of 2023, she is 88 years old and still an active, albeit no longer competitive, bodybuilder.
Becca Swanson started out in 1996 with the desire to be a bodybuilder, but ended up powerlifting. According to her, the larger and more muscular women had fallen out of favor in bodybuilding after a few shows. She was told that she was just too big for bodybuilding, which motivated her to take up powerlifting.