I have to admit that part of me thinks the fact that two muscle beauties like Jennifer Scarpetta and Megan Abshire are an item is more than a little unfair. I mean, there's not nearly enough muscle women to go round, if they all start hooking up with each other, well, it's another nail in the coffin of the male of the species.
On the other hand, they really do make a lovely couple, don't they?
Jennifer, who's in her mid-30s, earned her pro card in 2010, just a year after she had switched from Figure. An extremely intelligent and eloquent champion of the sport of female bodybuilding, if there were a Female Muscle Union, she'd be a great leader of it. Bodybuilding, unsurprisingly perhaps, seems to have been responsible for a huge turnaround in her life. In interviews, she has spoken of a period living out of her car, of a diet consisting of chocolate bars, of a collapsed lung she allowed to fester for two weeks... No wonder she's so passionate about the benefits of her lifestyle.
Megan became state champion in her native Louisiana in 2008 at the tender age of only 23, under the tutelage of none other than Robin Parker. A teenage powerlifter, she's relatively tall for a female bodybuilder at 5'8" (1.74m). Given her relative youth, her sensational genetics and her background, this woman's potential as a bodybuilder seems virtually limitless. But she doesn't seem to be in any hurry to return to the stage, and, unfortunately I think, hasn't competed again. If and when she does, look out!
They've been together for a few years, and are currently engaged.
Check out Jennifer's guest posing routine at the 2012 NPC Panhandle Showdown, and hang around for her speech afterwards, in which she mentions Megan. I may be a bit of an old fool these days, and a bit sentimental this week of all weeks, but I found it genuinely heartfelt, and rather touching.
You might also want to watch a little of a documentary on Muscle Worship, starring Jen and Megan, and containing footage from their respective sessions, as well as their thoughts on the muscle worship 'scene'.
FMS wishes female bodybuilding's premier couple all the best for their future, individually and together.
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