Stay at home Mom, IFBB Bodybuilder, former IFBB Figure Pro and fitness model Karen Zaremba. Karen was born on January 27, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan.
Contest History: 2003- Michigan Novice Bodybuilding championships- overall 2004- Central States Figure championships- overall 2005- Junior USA's - third place Class A 2005- Junior Nationals- third place class A 2005- NPC National Figure Championships- second place class A, earned IFBB pro card 2007 Europa Super Show - 8th place lightweights
Canadian IFBB Professional bodybuilder Cindy Phillips. She was born on October 31, 1983 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Cindy is currently studying criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Contest History: 2003 Nova Scotia Championship - 2nd (LW) 2004 Canadian Nationals - Junior (under 21) champion 2005 Nova Scotia Championship - 1st (MW & Overall) 2006 Canadian Nationals - 2nd (MW) 2007 Canadian Nationals - 2nd (MW)
This is female bodybuilder Erika Andersson. This young lady is truly multi-national. Erika was born in Africa, is of African and Japanese descent and resides in Sweden. She played ice hockey, football and wrestled as a teenager. Then she went into bodybuilding. Erika competed in the Swedish Nationals in 2007, the Junior’s World Championships, and the Swedish Nationals again in 2008.
Korean female bodybuilder Mi-Hee Yu is very popular on this blog, so here's some more about her. As I have mentioned before, this 5' 2½", 112-pound all natural bodybuilder got up to 176 pounds after the birth of her daughter and she wanted to lose weight so she took up bodybuilding.
Here are some videos I found of her across the web.
Michiko Nishiwaki (Nishiwaki Michiko) , was born on November 21, 1957 in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. She is a former female bodybuilder, powerlifter, actress, fitness trainer, stunt woman, martial artist and fight choreographer. Michiko started out, as a lot of fitness stars did, in gymnastics. She looked into bodybuilding when she noticed how large her legs were when compared to her upper body, hoping that weightlifting would give her better symmetry. Michiko became a powerlifter, Japan's first female powerlifting champion and eventually Japan's first female bodybuilding champion. This was very unusual for a woman in Japanese society at that time. She also opened three fitness clubs with her brother. Michiko began her acting career in 1985 when she caught the eye of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. (How many careers has Jackie Chan launched?) She appeared in his film "My Lucky Stars" a Hong Kong martial arts/comedy film as a Japanese fighter. Michiko landed several roles in Hong Kong movies after that, usually playing a villain or a femme fatale. After that, she returned to Japan, but then went to Thailand and made a few more films. Eventually she landed in the US and began a career as a stunt woman appearing in a lot of movies you may have seen, but had no idea that she was in. As a stunt woman she appeared in Blade, Man on the Moon, Charlie's Angels, Rush Hour 2, The Scorpion King, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Memoirs of a Geisha and Resident Evil: Extinction. She also worked on 2009's Afro Ninja as Yuko. Michiko has stunt doubled for Lucy Liu in four films and Kelly Hu in one.
Here she is in a clip from her first movie, "My Lucky Stars"...
You can find out even more about Michiko at her website here: http://www.geocities.com/michikonishiwaki/index.html
The stunning Pauline Nordin. Pro Figure athlete, fitness model, actress, Certified Fitness Trainer and journalist, Pauline Nordin was born on July 23, 1982 in Ystad, Sweden. Pauline has been on the cover, and featured in several magazines, among them Oxygen, BODY, Ironman and Muscle and Fitness. She is a writer for Bodybuilding.com, and has been sponsored by Better Bodies and Optimum Nutrition Inc. She and her husband Pavel Ythjall own the fitness and wellness company Conforce.
South Korean female Bodybuilder Jung Young Ji. Not a lot of info on this young lady, but I expect to see great things out of her. In 2007 she took first place at the Asian Championships in Women's Bodybuilding 58kg class (That's about 127 lbs. for the metrically challenged like me).
Tomoko Kanda is a Japanese female bodybuilder. She was born and raised in Osaka Japan. Besides being a bodybuilder Tomoko has a Master's degree in management from Troy State University in Troy, Alabama. She has competed in several bodybuilding competitions. In 2002, she took first place at All Japan Bodybuilding in the Masters category. Also in 2002, she took first place in the All Japan Open Bench Press competition in the 56kg weight class. In 2004, she took first place at the Osaka/Kansai bodybuilding competition and was runner up at the All Japan Bodybuilding competition.
Asian-American female bodybuilder Michelle Jin. Michelle was born in China, but moved to the US when she 18. She is competing in amateur contests right now, mainly natural bodybuilding. Other than that, I don't have a lot of info on her. Then again, her mass and definition speaks for itself.
Chinese-American bodybuilder "Lili" Xin Li Cao (or Cao Xin Li) was born in Mongolia in 1981. She started practicing Judo at the age of 12, switched to weightlifting at 15, then started bodybuilding training in 1998.
Lili has competed in the 2000 General Assembly Session of the National Sports Competition, the Chinese national Bodybuilding championship, the Asian Bodybuilding Championship, the Chinese national, and Asian bodybuilding championships among others, and has won many of them. Right now she is training for the Eighth World Games to be held in Taiwan in 2009.
Despite her obvious power, when you watch videos of this lady, she seems..I really hate to say this..but cute. I know cute isn't a word usually associated with massive bodybuilders, but she seems to have a very open and sweet disposition.
Couldn't find a lot of info on South Korean bodybuilder Mi-Hee Yu other than she has had two children and started training AFTER she had them. So yes, this is how cut and ripped this lady is after having kids. I swear I cannot see how they do it. Two kids, married and works as well. Bodybuilding is basically an amateur sport in South Korea, so she doesn't get paid for it, she does it for the love of the sport. But imagine having to manage her regular life, plus make time to hit the gym and watch what she eats. My hat is off to these ladies that can keep that up. And look this good doing it!
Aki Nishimoto is a Japanese female bodybuilder. She won the Ms Japan bodybuilding contest in 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008! Talk about dominating! Besides Ms.Japan, she has placed in the 1998 Asian Bodybuilding Championships, the 2005 World Games and the 2006 World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships. Aki started out in Karate, but got a knee injury that put her out for awhile. Ms. Nishimoto is 41 (yes 41!) a former civil servant, a fitness instructor and lecturer. There are tons of videos of her posing out on the web. And here is one.... It's a short video of Aki hitting a double bicep pose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGN_SsC70c
