04/02/2025
💪🏼🥇This is not a sad post but it’s bittersweet and the last one on the topic of competition.
🔟My ten year run as a bodybuilding competitor has come to an end and I am going out on top!
🏁It was my ultimate goal to win the elusive Grand Slam/Super Bowl of bodybuilding - the IFBB PRO CARD . And I DID…sort of.
I competed in the most prestigious natural, drug-tested NPC show in the country - the only one that advertised across multiple platforms that the Overall Winner in the 50+ Figure Division would be awarded the Pro Card. I crushed it and won the Overall for Figure 50+ (yay me ‼️)
I stood center stage waiting for the celebration that never happened…waiting for the crown to be placed on my head, waiting for the giant poster to be presented to me. None of that happened. I exited the stage.
After the dust settled - and there was a LOT of dust (I love every one of you who advocated for me 🫶🏻)- the NPC did not honor what it promoted. The NPC did not acknowledge my legitimate win.
So, after 30+ shows, I’m walking off stage for the last time with my head held high.
Along this journey, I competed in several natural, drug-tested federations that treat their competitors with truth, respect, and integrity. I am so proud to have earned my Pro Cards in the OCB, USBF, and UFE.
🙏🏼There are hundreds of you near and far that I owe gratitude for supporting me through all of it: the prep, the smelly food, the travel, the funky tans, the check-ins, the sequins everywhere, the wins and the losses, the smiles and tears. ALL my gratitude to the worthy show promoters, chairmen, photographers, coaches, hair/make up/tan artists, suit designers, sponsors, clients, friends, teammates and my tribe of classy badass competitors and prayer warriors.
🙏🏼I’d like to thank me for choosing a sport that healed me physically and emotionally.
🙏🏼Most of all, thank you Danny, Bella, and Eliana - I love you, I hope I made you proud.
Peace out and on to the next chapter! ✌🏼