241: Area Orion's Transformers

A couple of years ago, when FMS was very much in its infancy, it got a mention on another female muscle fan blog. Afterwards, I couldn't help feeling that somehow FMS had "arrived". This was partly because of the resulting sudden, massive increase in readership, but it was mainly due to the fact that the blog which had mentioned FMS was none other than Area Orion, one of the great female muscle blogs (if not the greatest) and an inspiration to me personally back when FMS had been nothing more than an idea. Consequently, it felt like more than just a mention. It felt like I'd been approved, like my blog had got a papal blessing or something.

And if that makes it sound as though I was (and still am) not just a fan, but rather utterly IN AWE of Area Orion's work, then that's absolutely right.

So when it came to deciding how to finish off 241 week, Area Orion's Before and After posts came to mind. The same woman, although sometimes that is rather hard to believe, "before" and "after" her transformation into a muscle goddess.

Whether it is, in fact, Area Orion who sources the images and then combines them, or whether they are found as they are makes no difference to me. It's Area Orion who puts them out there, and, as with the little mention of FMS, at a stroke, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of readers know about the incredible transformation each woman has achieved. And that's the magic.

Old or new, each transformation has its own special beauty.


Gayle Moher


Eleonora Dobrinina

They show women who have taken control of their bodies and their lives.


Binge-Eater No More: Linda Gartside


Anorexia Conquered: Lisa Cross

I honestly can't think of a "Before and After" pic I don't like, but the ones I like the most are definitely the very skinny to very muscular ones. Why? Well, take a wild guess at my own wife's body shape. The knowledge, contained within these images, that within a few years, however unlikely it may be, I might end up being married to a woman who resembles Theresa Ivancik After, rather than Theresa Ivancik Before, well, it just gives me a warm feeling inside. Know what I mean?



Moreover, the "Before and After" also shows us that even some of the all-time greats started out with such unremarkable bodies that, as I said above, you have to look twice to make sure that you are, indeed, looking at the same woman. There must be more than a few people out there who have failed to recognise the "Before" they once knew in their utterly different "After" form.


Transformed: Heather Policky


I'm A Big Girl Now: Katka Kyptova

And furthermore, even when the long long journey to muscle has already started at the time the "Before" picture was taken, the insane contrast with the fully-formed muscle goddess in the "After" can be no less jaw-dropping.


Monica, Wiechowski to Mowi


Alina, gym rat to Alina Popa, FBB Queen


Figure to Huge: Monique Jones

Collectively for guys like us; like me, like you and I dare say like the genius that is Area Orion; it is probably the transformation of the woman who has undoubted "mainstream" sex appeal into the woman who has muscular sex appeal that is the best transformation of all. Another woman rejecting the body shape ascribed by society as ideal, another woman coming over to our side.


Beauty Queen to Fitness Goddess: Cindy Landolt


Bunny to Beast: Brigita Brezovac

See lots more of these at Area Orion Transformations on Tumblr

Hope you enjoyed 241 week.

And don't forget: it's the last day for FMS Hot and Hard 100 votes.