Did anyone catch this last night on TLC? It was about a "female" (and I use the term loosely) bodybuilder trying to make it to the Miss Olympia competition.
First let me say those "women" are just disgusting. There are 70 female bodybuilders in the world, as opposed to the hundreds of men. They pretty much admitted they used steroids, not that there was any doubt, just listening to them speak. When they first started interviewing her I was like WTH, that's not a woman's voice! I was searching & searching for an adam's apple. Her skin looked awful, she had breakouts all over her body. They showed a video of her first competition & she was such a beautiful young woman, but since then her jaw had widened & she'd developed this ridge over her eyebrows, it was just scary. And her voice, like I said, was very deep & masculine. Rather than make me think of a manly woman, she made me think of a man disguised as a woman.
So the excuse for the steroid use was something like "the judges expect us to have a certain body type, & we can't get it without drugs, so we have to do it." I don't get that. If you really want to be a bodybuilder, can't you just do it w/o the juice & compete in Miss Fitness or something?
Then there were the breast implants. She had like a D cup, which I guess she had to have to be in proportion w/the rest of her b/c she was just huge, but they were pretty gross.
But I think the real point of the show was the fact that even though these women look like the strongest in the world, they're very unhealthy. Their goal is to get down to 3% bodyfat for the competitions. Can you believe that? Really sick. They barely eat for like 2 months before the competition. Then, immediately before the competition they pump themselves up w/sugar b/c apparently this makes their veins pop out more.
The narrator kept saying even though they look very strong, they're probably at their weakest point during competition.
The whole thing was enlightening but it left me scratching my head. Why are these women turning themselves into mutants? So many of them could have been so beautiful, but they end up looking like some kind of Frankenstein's monster.
Also I'm wondering, after they stop doing steroids, will they regain some of their femininity? Or are they stuck like that for life?
First let me say those "women" are just disgusting. There are 70 female bodybuilders in the world, as opposed to the hundreds of men. They pretty much admitted they used steroids, not that there was any doubt, just listening to them speak. When they first started interviewing her I was like WTH, that's not a woman's voice! I was searching & searching for an adam's apple. Her skin looked awful, she had breakouts all over her body. They showed a video of her first competition & she was such a beautiful young woman, but since then her jaw had widened & she'd developed this ridge over her eyebrows, it was just scary. And her voice, like I said, was very deep & masculine. Rather than make me think of a manly woman, she made me think of a man disguised as a woman.
So the excuse for the steroid use was something like "the judges expect us to have a certain body type, & we can't get it without drugs, so we have to do it." I don't get that. If you really want to be a bodybuilder, can't you just do it w/o the juice & compete in Miss Fitness or something?
Then there were the breast implants. She had like a D cup, which I guess she had to have to be in proportion w/the rest of her b/c she was just huge, but they were pretty gross.
But I think the real point of the show was the fact that even though these women look like the strongest in the world, they're very unhealthy. Their goal is to get down to 3% bodyfat for the competitions. Can you believe that? Really sick. They barely eat for like 2 months before the competition. Then, immediately before the competition they pump themselves up w/sugar b/c apparently this makes their veins pop out more.
The narrator kept saying even though they look very strong, they're probably at their weakest point during competition.
The whole thing was enlightening but it left me scratching my head. Why are these women turning themselves into mutants? So many of them could have been so beautiful, but they end up looking like some kind of Frankenstein's monster.
Also I'm wondering, after they stop doing steroids, will they regain some of their femininity? Or are they stuck like that for life?
