Miss Charmion, a sideshow strongwoman and trapeze artist. 1904. From The Circus Book, 1870s-1950s by Frederick Whitman Glasier. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Casual fans of bodybuilding’s ...

Let’s get away from the pathological and talk about something that is today entirely normal, totally healthy, and still shunned by many women. Bodybuilding. Women think it will give them big ...

For Monica Di Giacomo, the “before” photo is just as powerful as the “after.” At 37, weighing 320 pounds, she says she felt worthless, unlovable, and even contemplated ending her life. A decade later, ...

The after photo is the one that gets all the likes, the congratulations, the one where everyone tells her how great she looks. But it’s the before photo that makes Monica Di Giacomo the proudest. That ...

Bodybuilding champion Hayley McNeff died last Friday, with the news confirmed on Wednesday. She was 37. According to an obituary published on Boston.com, the death of the Concord, Mass., native was ...

The Massachusetts native was remembered in her obituary for her “quick wit” and “constant sense of humor” Hayley McNeff/Instagram Hayley McNeff, a champion bodybuilder and fitness influencer, died on ...

Hayley McNeff, a popular bodybuilder passed away this month. She was just 37 years old. McNeff, born and raised in Massachusetts, died unexpectedly on Aug. 8. Although her family remembered her as a ...

Women are the stronger sex, says professional bodybuilder and debut author Anne Marie Chaker. They live longer, their muscles are more fatigue-resistant, and they have the power to create life. But ...

Professional bodybuilder Zunilda Hoyos Méndez was fatally hammered by her husband, Jarrod Gelling, in a rented flat on Spain’s Costa del Sol. Gelling is believed to have taken his own life following ...

After years of a hectic but sedentary routine, Anne Marie Chaker said weightlifting transformed her life. She learned to lift heavy and eat more to build muscle, and gained more confidence and focus ...

Nashville police cold case unit's investigation into the 1985 murder of two women found in shallow dirt graves inside a home in November 1987 now have a forensic rendering of what she may have looked ...