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This Female Bodybuilder Wants Professional Women to Build Muscle and Confidence

Anne Marie Chaker’s new book debunks myths about women’s bodies and shows how strength training helps their health and careers. Arnold Schwarzenegger just endorsed it. Women are the stronger sex, says ...
Time

Becoming a Bodybuilder at 50 Showed Me That Women Were Never Meant to be Thin

Chaker chalks up and prepares to lift weights. Contributor This summer I’ll step onstage to compete as a professional athlete for the first time—at 50. I’ll wear a fuchsia bikini small enough to fit ...
AOL

Becoming a Bodybuilder Taught Me Women Aren’t Meant to be Thin

This summer I’ll step onstage to compete as a professional athlete for the first time—at 50. I’ll wear a fuchsia bikini small enough to fit in a Ziplock bag, pose and flex in clear heels, and strike a ...
Psychology Today

Feminine Physique

In the middle of BBC World news is a story about a South Korean pop star turned to bodybuilding. The Korean feminine body ideal, the report reveals, has long been petite and thin, but is now changing ...
Business Insider

American women are scared to be strong but it's the norm in Iceland, says the Icelandic former 'world's fittest woman,' who trained in the US for 8 years

CrossFit athlete Katrin Davidsdottir has trained in both the US and Iceland, where she grew up. Davidsdottir told Insider she found fitness culture for women to be very different in both countries. In ...