Womens Bodybuilding in the News

Every now and then an article or interview pops up in the mainstream media. Lets use this thread to collect these news

Please:

• stick to the current ones (not older than one month) -> the thread should read like a filter on world news
• only mainstream media (clips from TV or streaming platforms, online newspapers, scans of paper news)
• main content should be female bodybuilders - primarily in the strict sense (i.e. cometing athletes). Related topics like crossfit, armwrestling or even acting or life stories are also fine, as long as the focus is on the muscular woman.

Would be great if you could add the source and the language on top of the comment&link, as it might make a difference for the reader to activate the link (or not)

I hope this is not a duplicate of an existing thread.

Here comes the first one:

(from -11:30)

CNN / english

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/07/world/vide...

Womens Wear Daily / english

EXCLUSIVE: Mugler Unveils Handbag Campaign Starring Nude Female Bodybuilder

Fashion News

Like the idea of this thread, our secret out in the open to a degree

https://www.independent.ie/county/tipperary/i...

A newspaper article on a fbb

Unfortunately much of it behind a paywall

Artsy / english

Why Women Bodybuilders Are Everywhere in Contemporary Art

link to article

There is a recent article in the NY Post about fit NY women working out publicly, doing pull ups on scaffolding around the city. Sorry no link.

There is a recent article in the NY Post about fit NY women working out publicly, doing pull ups on scaffolding around the city. Sorry no link.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/health/nyc-wome...

https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/health/nyc-wome...

Thanks @Gordon3456!

That Bethany Davis woman from Alabama local news has incredible arms. Since she was first posted a few weeks ago, I look everyday and she’s always sleeveless. It’s like a Kelly Ripa 2009 goldmine

There is a guy in NYC on instagram and his handle is "Body By Mark" ......and he goes around and interviews people on the sidewalk.....lots and really built women and cross-fit chicks

That Bethany Davis woman from Alabama local news has incredible arms. Since she was first posted a few weeks ago, I look everyday and she’s always sleeveless. It’s like a Kelly Ripa 2009 goldmine

O yes she does.

There is/was also another TV presenter from some US local news with a killer body, forgot her name though ....

There is a guy in NYC on instagram and his handle is "Body By Mark" ......and he goes around and interviews people on the sidewalk.....lots and really built women and cross-fit chicks

Great find, cool.

AnOther / english

Keerthana Kunnath’s Majestic Portraits of Bodybuilders

link to article

Los Angeles Times / english

‘Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie’ tells a bodybuilder’s story via Marlee Matlin

link to article

I don't know much about the story/news as I'm not from the US but there's this Jane Doe from Cornell university newspiece that revolves around accusations of rape/SA and she's very muscular.

I don't know much about the story/news as I'm not from the US but there's this Jane Doe from Cornell university newspiece that revolves around accusations of rape/SA and she's very muscular.

Why would you quote a newspiece about a possibly rape, dude? WTF?? Who cares if she is muscular or not????

I don't know much about the story/news as I'm not from the US but there's this Jane Doe from Cornell university newspiece that revolves around accusations of rape/SA and she's very muscular.

Jesus Christ what the fuck 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

OK, we'd better leave that in the drawer.

Pretty sure something else will pop up in the news shortly.

I don't know much about the story/news as I'm not from the US but there's this Jane Doe from Cornell university newspiece that revolves around accusations of rape/SA and she's very muscular.

I don't know that she was very muscular, IIRC the report only mentioned that she was posing LIKE a bodybuilder.

Yes I know most people don't do that unless they are, but still...

I don't know that she was very muscular, IIRC the report only mentioned that she was posing LIKE a bodybuilder.

Yes I know most people don't do that unless they are, but still...

Where are you getting this from? All I see is a Daily Wire article, no one else mentions it. Not that it even matters.

Where are you getting this from? All I see is a Daily Wire article, no one else mentions it. Not that it even matters.

I'll look it up again, but if it doesn't matter, why ask?

I'll look it up again, but if it doesn't matter, why ask?

I mean in the scope of the seriousness of the situation.

I don’t know why people are trying to leak her identity, when it will probably come out during or after the legal proceedings. Stuff like this is why sex crimes go unreported.