Female Fitness Models and Female Fitness Competitors

Oksana Grishina

Oksana Grishina

Russian superstar Oksana Grishina was born in Kaliningrad, Russia.
This five foot three, 116 pound IFBB Pro Fitness competitor started her professional career while she was working in a fitness club as a personal trainer.

Oksana's Contest History:
2007 IFBB Europa Super Show
2007 IFBB All Star Pro Fitness Championships - 3rd Place
2007 IFBB Olympia - 7th place
2008 IFBB Arnold Classic Bodybuilding, Fitness And Figure Contest - 10th place
2008 IFBB New York Pro Fitness - 7th place
2009 IFBB Arnold Classic - 9th place
2010 IFBB Arnold Sports Festival
2010 IFBB Olympia - 5th place
2010 IFBB Arnold Classic, Ms. International, Fitness International & Figure International - 5th place
2010 IFBB Phoenix Pro - 4th place

Karen Konyha

Karen Konyha

IFBB Fitness Professional Karen Konyha was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
This five foot three, 118 pound beauty is of Hungarian, Italian, Romanian and German descent.
Karen has appeared in Muscle and Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, Muscular Development, MuscleMag, IronMan, Flex, Womens Physique World, and Planet Muscle among many other magazines.

Contest History:
1999 IFBB Arnold Classic And Intermationals - 14th place
1999 IFBB Womens World Pro - 7th place
1999 IFBB Masters Olympia And Jan Tana Pro - 14th place
1999 IFBB Mid-West Pro Fitness - 5th place
2000 IFBB Rimini Pro Fitness - 7th place
2000 IFBB Masters Olympia And Jan Tana Pro - 17th place
2000 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Fitness - 18th place

Stacey Thompson

Stacey Oster

This five foot four, 117 pound, blonde haired brown eyed beauty is IFBB Bikini Pro Stacey (Oster) Thompson from Houston, Texas.
Besides competing, Stacy runs her own fitness consulting and personal training business.
I think she may be her best advertisement.

Contest History:
2009 NPC Contra Costa Bodybuilding, Figure & Fitness Championships - 1st place
2009 NPC Contra Costa Bodybuilding, Figure & Fitness Championships- 1st place
2009 NPC Jr. USA Bodybuilding, Fitness, Figure & Bikini Championships - 1st place and got her IFBB Bikini Pro Card
2010 IFBB Jacksonville Pro - 5th place
2010 IFBB MuscleContest Pro Bikini - 4th place 

Julie Ann Kulla

Julie Ann Kulla

IFBB Pro Julie Ann Kulla is from New Ulm Minnesota.
You know, to be a small town (13,594) New Ulm has produced an Olympic wrestler (Ali Bernard), a NBA player (Brad Lohaus) and a baseball All-Star game MVP (former Oakland A's catcher, Terry Steinbach).
But back to Julie....
She is a certified fitness trainer, bootcamp instructor, figure model and figure competitor.

She has competed in the :
2005 NPC Northern States Natural - Figure - 2nd place
2005 NPC North Star (Minnesota) - Figure - 3rd place
2006 NPC Minnesota State - Figure:  Short - 1st place
2007 NPC Junior Nationals - Figure:  Class A - 8th place
2008 NPC Gopher State - Figure:  Overall
2008 NPC Junior Nationals - Figure:  Overall Figure:  Class B- 1st place...she got her IFBB Pro Card there.
2008 IFBB Olympia - 12th place
2009 IFBB Kentucky Muscle Pro Figure - 2nd place
2009 IFBB Sacramento - 4th place
2010 IFBB Olympia - 16th place
2010 IFBB Europa Battle of Champions - 9th place

Angela Terlesky

IFBB Figure Pro Angela Terlesky

This is IFBB Figure Pro Angela Terlesky.
Angela was born and raised in Michigan, but now resides in Arizona.
And not only is she an IFBB Professional Figure Competitor and fitness model, but she's also a licensed massage therapist .

Angela has competed in numerous Figure contests, among them:
2005 Flagstaff Class C 3rd Place
2005 NPC Max Muscle Arizona Championships Class D 1st Place
2006 Contra Costa Championships Class C 1st Place
2006 NPC USA Bodybuilding Championships Class D 1st Place
2007 IFBB California Pro Figure Championships 18th Place
2007 IFBB Colorado Pro/Am Classic Bodybuilding And Figure Contest
2008 IFBB California State Pro Figure Championships 13th Place
2008 IFBB Sacramento Pro Figure Grand Prix 12th Place
2009 IFBB New York Pro Figure - 16th Place
2010 IFBB California Pro Figure - 9th Place
2010 IFBB Phoenix Pro - 6th Place

Michelle Jean-Pierre

Michelle Jean-Pierre

Michelle Jean-Pierre is a fitness competitor from Victoria, B.C. Canada.
Not only is she a fitness model and figure competitor, but she's a stunt-performer as well.
She has worked on Scary Movie 4, Masters of Horror, Stargate-SG-1, Whistler, and Aliens in America.

Michelle's Contest History:
2008 WBFF World Championship Bodybuilding, Figure & Fitness Model - 3rd place
2010 WBFF BC Championships - 7th place

Katelynn Sue Cashin

Katelynn Sue Cashin

Katelynn Sue Cashin is a fitness model, glamor model and bikini model from Hayward California.
She recently competed in the 2009 NPC Excalibur Bodybuilding and Figure Championships where she came in 7th.

Caitlyn J Bellamy

Caitlyn J Bellamy

Caitlyn J Bellamy is a personal trainer, fitness model, wife and mother from Fort St. John, BC Canada.
She is married to 2009 INBF Canada Mr. Fitness Kaleb Bellamy, who is also from Fort St. John.
Caitlyn has one of the more unique "how I became a fitness model" stories.
She went to a regional bodybuilder show in Canada to watch her 48 year old mother compete in her first figure competition.
Caitlyn was living a bad lifestyle at the time, eating badly and smoking, but due to that inspiration, she hired a personal fitness instructor, started eating good and after a year of training, entered her first figure show in 2008.

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Dana Hamm
Exotic fitness beauty Dana Hamm has appeared in fitness magazines like Muscle Mag, Planet Muscle and Muscular Development.
Dana was born in my home state of North Carolina (Sanford), on August 31st, 1979.
Her very first fitness gig was modeling for the cover of MuscleMag International.
She differs from a lot of the other fitness models out there because of her full figure, and her killer eyes.

Ava Cowan
Ava Cowan is a fitness model, bikini model and certified personal trainer based in South Florida.
Besides doing fitness modeling, Ava has been in a few figure competitions as well.
She won the Overall Figure title at the 2005 NPC Southern States Figure Championships. She won the advanced division at the 2007 FAME North American Championships.
At the 2007 Figure America, she won short class and Overall.
Then at the 2009 Figure Universe, she won Overall Champion.
And Ava is one of these models that can go from soft and curvy, to ripped and hard in a heartbeat.

Cori Nadine
The beautiful Cori Nadine has been a fitness model since the 90s.
I think I remember reading that she had actually done a few amateur female fitness competitions before becoming a fitness model, but that career never took off.
She was born on June 11th, 1969 in Pasadena, California and she owes her exotic looks to her Filipino, Irish, and Navajo Indian heritage.

Mary Castro
Another one of my favorites because she is a really nice person.
You see, I have a friend on MySpace, a little boy with cancer. I sent an appeal out to all my friends to add this brave little guy, and Mary was one of the first that responded. She may have actually been the first.
So to me that proves this lady is beautiful inside and out.
Mary was born on April 14th, 1981 in West Covina, California.
Besides fitness modeling, Mary has also done a lot of TV and movie work.

Pauline Nordin
Another fitness beauty I like so much that I did a Hub about her.
Pauline has that exotic look, plus an incredibly hard ripped body.
She was born on July 23rd, 1982 in Ystad, Sweden.
She started training in 1999, and started competing in 2002.
Here are a few of the contests she has been in....the 2006 IFBB San Francisco Pro, the 2006 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Figure, the 2006 IFBB California Pro Figure, the
2006 IFBB Europa Super Show, the 2007 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Figure Championships, the 2007 IFBB California Pro Figure Championships and the 2007 IFBB Colorado Pro/Am Classic Bodybuilding And Figure Contest.

Amrit Dhaliwal
This beautiful lady is the first Indian fitness model I remember seeing.
Her name is Amrit Dhaliwal and she has a lot of nicknames...."The Canadian Corporate Chic", "Punjabi Femme Fatale", "India’s First Fitness Bikini Model", "Canada’s Best Import" and I think she lives up to them all.
And there is a rumor that the lovely Amrit may have her sites set on Bollywood.

Dina al Sabah
Again, another lady I did a Hub on, Dina has suffered through a lot of prejudice to get to where she is today.
Dina was born February 28th, 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon and is related to royalty. Her grandfather was the son of Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah who was the ruler of Kuwaiti from 1917 to 1921.
She has first place wins at the 2001 NPC Monica Brant Fitness Classic, the 2001 NPC Jan Tana Figure, the 2002 NPC Debbie Kruck Figure Classic, the 2002 NPC NorthEast Figure Classic and the 2003 IFBB Jan Tana Pro Figure and you can add to that finishing in many, many more.
And Dina isn't just gorgeous, she holds degrees in electrical engineering, telecommunications and computers, and an MBA.
Plus she can speak English, Spanish, French, and Arabic.

Christina Lindley
Actress and Fitness model Christina Lindley was born on September 18, 1983, Atlanta, Georgia.
At one time, Christina was so popular in fitness magazines, she had a twenty five page layout in Muscular Development magazine!
Besides being a model, she has appeared in several movies and TV shows like "Curb Your Enthusiasm", The Marine (with John Cena) and "Entourage".

Dana Hamm

Ava Cowan

Cori Nadine

Mary Castro

Pauline Nordin

Amrit Dhaliwal

Dina al Sabah

Christina Lindley

Fitness Model: Mai Tran

Mai Tran is a Fitness model, Bikini model and Import Car model.
This 5'1, 96 pound (yes that's right...96 pounds!) Vietnamese (she was born in the US, but both her parents are Vietnamese) beauty is very popular on the internet.
And rightly so.
She has been in fitness magazines such as MuscleMag, Oxygen, Muscle and Fitness, Muscular Development and Flex.
And this is a "hat-trick" for Mai.

Amber Elizabeth Fournier

Oxygen covergirl and rising fitness model Amber Elizabeth.
To stay in this condition, she does Pilates, kickboxing, weight training and CrossFit.
I would say it appears to be working for her.
Besides Oxygen, she has appeared in Muscle & Fitness, HERS and Mens Fitness among others.