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This is a list of female professional bodybuilders. ... Michelle Jin posing at the 2022 IFBB New York Pro Women's Bodybuilding finals individual posing round on 21 ...
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.
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.
When she won that show then went to the IFBB World Amateur Championship and took a silver medal, she figured she should get serious in bodybuilding. [3] [15] These wins sent Aukland to compete in the IFBB World Amateur Championships representing the United States women's heavyweight division. She brought home a silver medal from Australia in 1999.
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.
We pulled together pictures of some celebs who have maintained a beach-ready body into their 50s for model Chrissy Teigen to weighed in on. NEWS: Demi Moore Shows Off Her Incredible Bikini Bod
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.
Joanna Clare Dawson Thomas (briefly Joanna Schwartz) (12 December 1976 – 26 April 2020) was a British professional female bodybuilder. She was the younger sister of British professional female bodybuilder Nicola Shaw. She was the youngest British female bodybuilder to win IFBB pro card, at the age of 21. [2] [5] [6]