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This is a list of female professional bodybuilders. All people listed here have an IFBB pro card. This list is incomplete; you can ...
As a professional bodybuilder and spokesperson for the sport, she became a pioneer in drug testing for women bodybuilders, served as a judge for the IFBB and was a president of the American Federation of Women's Body Building. [citation needed] She was also an actress. In 1984, she had a role in a TV movie about bodybuilding called Getting ...
Sue Gafner (born 1964 in Erie, Pennsylvania) [citation needed] is a former professional female bodybuilder of the late 1980s and early 1990s.. Sue Gafner competed as an amateur in the light-weight competitive division for several years in the late 80s until she moved the middle weight class at the national class level of competitive bodybuilding in the early 90s.
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.
Pillow was among the first muscular female bodybuilders. She won the 1983 Gold's Classic as a heavyweight, beating lightweight winner Lori Okami, middleweight Alison Brundage and other weight class entrants Reggie Bennett and Sue Ann McKean. Pillow was a non-competing guest performer in many bodybuilding shows up until 1993, and was the first ...
Stacey Bentley (July 1, 1957 – December 31, 2019) was a registered nurse and former professional female bodybuilder of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Along with Claudia Wilbourn and Rachel McLish, Bentley was among the first role models of bodybuilding for women and the benefits that it can bring to them. She died on December 31, 2019.
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.
This eventually led her into bodybuilding. [2] Lyon entered and won the first International Federation of BodyBuilders Women's World Pro Bodybuilding Championship in Los Angeles on June 16, 1979. This was the only bodybuilding competition of her career. She appeared in many magazines and on television talk shows, promoting bodybuilding for women.