How did you get interested in bodybuilding/working out?

I was a huge Cory fan when I was in high school, and my interest peaked upon the arrival of fitness as a sport.

What was your first show like, any interesting experiences?

I was really excited to have my friends and family there for support, but honestly, nothing spectacular happened, I just had a ball performing!

What do you like and dislike about competing?

I love the structure and drive I feel when I train for a show, yet I don't like taking my kids out for ice cream and being unable to eat it when I am training.

What are your future goals in this industry?

To continue moving onward and upward, finding my place in the world with Fitness as one of my grounds for success.

What do you see yourself doing in 10 years?

Singing publicly, speaking publicly, doing book signings, working with my children in their careers/scholastics, doing dance choreography, dancing to Frank Sinatra on a Saturday night with a dashing enchanting and romantic man spinning me around on the floor (I only ever experienced that one best night of my life!)

Please tell us something special about you that most people wouldn't know?

This one would be best summed up in one of my writings Stifled and rushed simultaneously while trapped in between two worlds of my own creation. My being is my creation so my two worlds are what I am. How can I be two worlds? Or physically, how can I live inside two worlds at once? I feel lost. Frightened, yet hopefully courageous I move forward into the domination of my compulsions while I also march against myself in that way wherein I maintain composure against the compulsions and dominate my compulsions with self-control. Torn between my lusts power and the value of my cleansed soul, I sleep hard and dream sweet or I have nightmares when I sleep like a baby. Buried and free or buried in my freedom, I cannot seem to fly straight or stay grounded. Turning out while looking within I feel swarmed by my emotions, and no matter what strengths I achieve, eventually they become my weakness. I fall, fall again.

Any additional notes? People you would like to thank?

My main note of gratitude always goes to my children for their miraculous and healing love and to my mother for being as strong as she is.

Competition History:

-July 2004 NPC USA's,Las Vegas,5th short
-November 2003 NPC Nationals,Miami, FLA,4th short
-August 2003 NPC Team Universe,NY, NY,2nd short
-July 2003 NPC USA's,Las Vegas,3rd short
-November 2001 NPC Nationals,Atlanta, GA 4th short
-July 2001 NPC USA's,Las Vegas,5th short
-July 2001 NPC Arizona's,Phoenix, AZ,1st short
-May 2001 NPC Contra Costa's,Hayward,CA,2nd
-November 2000 NPC Nationals,NY, NY,10th
-October 2000 NPC Sacramento, Sacramento,3rd
-July 1999 NPC USA's,Santa Monica,5th
-July 1999 NPC Arizona's,Phoenix, AZ,1st
-May 1999 NPC Contra Costa's,Hayward, CA,2nd
-March 1999 NPC Natural Western USA's,Phoenix,AZ 2nd
-November 1998 NPC Southwestern Regional's Phoenix, AZ 6th