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Very nice. Love the biggest girls like Tina. Prefer offseason myself. I know you get it mixed opinions on that and super huge types vs smaller. Looks matter too. Looking feminine, but huge is not always the case. Tina looks good.

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I have all of these somewhere. That was the way to collect in those days.. WPW had some competiton. Even the mainstreams carried lots of women for a while. Used to love Musclemag’s “Don The Ripper.” He used to have all kinds of fbb goodies from Venice Beach. Nice thread.

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I miss the TV shows, but lets be honest. You can sit at your computer and see more femuscle now in 2013 than we ever saw in the 90’s pre-internet. It was on TV more. It has been outed for the drug reason and the fact is no longer new. Everyone has seen an FBB on TV, net, or in real life by now. Who does not know they exist? They were new to many back at that time. That, drugs, and sponsorship is why they are not on. Even the freaky roided out men have lost TV market anre Tv chances. No Arnold or Lou now. Too many stigmas about roids for most people to touch.

The bad news is the sport of fbbs and number of young girls is way down. The good news is they are stronger than ever and more are lifting now for sports than ever. Title IX took time to change things, but girls are so much bigger, stronger, and better in sports now than in the 80’s….that it is incredible. Much bigger improvement than with male athletes….and males are also bigger and better now. Drugs are still out there and always will be. No shortage of money in pro sports these days.

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I was born in the mid 60’s ansd loved femuscle as a little kid. I never imagined it would grow to where it did when I was 10 or 12. Tha amazing Charonne and the Popeye episodes were about it. A few other TV shows, but nothing like what came later. I remember ‘Real People” on NBC when I was a kid doing a feature on FBBS. Then came more. We had Jan Todd and the Women’s powerlifting championships start and there were some nice looking amazons in that. Vicky Gagne and Jan to name too. Ben francis also began there. The magazines started picking up the women’s scene more and more about 1980 and then we had WSP which was mail order…the start of the WPW company. The shows were also a novelty. Femuscle was new. It was first on ESPN with Cory, Kay Baxter, and Carla Dunlap.

Lets not forget ESPN had much less pro and college sports in those days. Women’s armwrestling was on too with the MLB players and the NFL players having a toruney. That would never happen now….MLB players armwrestling. Bodybuilding was in the rotation. There was musclemag show each week…which aired 2-3 times.

The talk shows were not around as much until the late 80’s and 90’s and loved fbbs. Most covered it. Some used the freak angle. Others had wrestling. Others were serious. The whole thing exploded. It was popular too. Guys would leave it on for a few minutes in college. Some would say gross, but they woud keep it there for a bit. We had the WSE and sponsors. All the best girls came. It was a WPW thing. Then came the next level of musclegirls with more roids.

Sponsors left for the reasons discussed and more. First, there was no issue with roids. Then..as baseball records fell and the feds became involved…..guess what? Drug enforcement vs roid went up about 4 times. Coleete Nelsons fiancee was jailed. Sherry Smith was arrested. lets face it….drugs were a huge part of the sport and still are. A top fbb may need a huge amount of that. You need a dealer…or to be a dealer and those guys are drying up in the US. Candada does not enforce it as much. That is why you see athletes travel to docs in Canada….or use them Tiger Woods and Arod. Every major dealer here is now in danger of jail. That was not nearly the case years back. They were sold easily at any top gym. It is now not like that. You have to work to find them.

Take the laws and the media scrutiny and public scrutiny vs all cheaters like Lance Armstrong, Bonds, and a zillion others. Why would endorsers stay with a sport everyone knows is big on roids? They would not. Why would you put such people on TV? You would not. The few girls I have seen on the last 6 or 7 years are usually playing the role of a freak. The exposes done on the sport by CNBC, MSNBC, Discovery, and others all had women admitting they use roids and that the only way to make money as sessions.

Mix all that up and fbbing is dead. Strongwoman and things like that have potential as does women’s weightlifting. Even men’s bodybuilding is dead. I have no idea who is a famous male bb now. No Lou Ferrigno or Arnolds these days. The sport has become underground. The few women who are active are as good as ever. ‘Nutrition” and training have improved. However, way less girls. I used to just go to my gym and get a surprise show 10 times a year with some amazing monster…and we had a few world class fbbs. Nothing now.

I agree that fitness is not mainstream. It has some backing, but it frowns on very muscular bodies.

The good news is girls are more involved in strength sports than ever before and thus getting bigger and stronger. Times have changed alot. Think of how DWI enforcement has changed over 30 years. The same thing has happened recently to roids. MLB players use creams that are out of your body in 12 hours now. No more hardcore stuff with testing always possible.

The best girls now and over the past 10-15 years have also known how to mix the right things together and thus are much stronger than the girls of the 80’s and even most of the girls of the early 90’s. More volume back then too. It is not new now either. People have seen it. They can go to youtube. There is no point to putting it on a talk show. I would like to see an FBB get a role as a female bully or cagefighter type thing more often. There are so many fights on TV, but the girls can’t even get those parts like they once did.

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Kris just keeps getting bigger and better.

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Thanks for the pictures. You look great. Happy 2013 and we wish you the best from the NY Area. You have a great look. I wish it was like the old days when there were more fbbs at competitions an gatherings like the Arnold. I had a chance to meet some very cool fbbs and you seem to have that ‘it factor on stage that only a few girls have.

Best wishes in 2013 Natalia! 🙂

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Holy smokes. :cheer: Way to go Tina.

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Anyone who enjoys muscular girls defeating or being compared with skinny girls or beating them up might enjoy this page. :cheer:

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I love when Kim goes off season. The exrtra water weight alone fills her out perfectly. She looks great here.

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Always liked Judy. Bought her WPW video and magazine, but she was not around long. She was an inspiration for Colette Nelson. Glad to hear she still looks great.

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