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Iris Floyd Kyle (born Mildred Carter; [25] August 22, 1974) is an African-Indian American professional female bodybuilder. [26] [27] She is currently the most successful, female or male, professional bodybuilder ever.
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.
2019 Romania Muscle Fest Pro Female bodybuilding Nataliya Kuznetsova , also spelled Natalia ( née Trukhina ; born July 1, 1991), is a Russian professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter .
Like open-bodybuilding, the federations in which bodybuilders can compete are natural divisions as well as normal ones. The main difference between the two is that men's physique competitors pose in board shorts rather than a traditional posing suit and open-bodybuilders are much larger and are more muscular than the men's physique competitors ...
Betty Pariso posing at the 2001 Extravaganza Strength Contest on 25 August 2001. Betty Pariso; Debbie Patton; Francesca Petitjean; Alina Popa doing a front double triceps pose in 2017. Alina Popa; Gladys Portugues; Sue Price
While attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she met Jeff Everson, a competitive bodybuilder who worked there as a strength coach.They married in 1982. While they were married, the Eversons built a successful mail-order clothing business called Sampson and Delilah.
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.
Aleesha Young (born November 10, 1984) is an American bodybuilder who won the NPC USA Championships in 2014. [citation needed] At her largest, her biceps measured over 18 in (457 mm) and her quads over 28 in (711 mm).