C. Moore thought he had died and gone to heaven the first time I saw her flex those beauties. And it's still not entirely impossible that that is in fact what happened.
If I am still here, and the last thing I saw was PT's bum in a thong, I'd die with a smile on my face and a massive throbbing erection in my trousers (or possibly out of them).
The glootasm begins after about a minute and a half.
Female Bodybuilders still go to the Olympia shock!
Nicky Chartrand (above) was just one of many so-called "proper" FBBs who convened (with the rest of the muscle world) on Vegas for the event, including the newly-crowned Queen herself. If the pictures of Helle with friends (considered and rejected by the editorial team) are anything to go by, she had a lot of friends there.
I should say I did argue that you only really get the sense of how big Helle is when pictured with friend, but I was outvoted and I'm not bitter. Besides, we have Katie Lee's many many interviews with various Olympian women to illustrate just how much a really big girl can be bigger than, say, a pretty big girl like Heather Dees.
See what I mean?
For a significant number of fans, these (usually pretty dull truth be told) interviews conducted by Katie were the highlight of their vicarious Olympia experience, and I must say if you turn the sound down and just watch Katie (or Heather, but I recommend Katie), specifically her arm, the 2 minutes 36 seconds just flies by.
And here's another "proper" FBB. Too big for this world, but not for the Olympia.
I'm thinking I should know who the other woman in this picture is, and I'm also wondering whether she is having her picture taken with Irene or Irene's having her picture taken with her, if you see what I mean. Irene certainly looks excited.
And also in that category...
The too-tatted-for-some Cammie Spindel I know. But who's her (at least equally impressive - and much-less-tatted) friend? Perhaps this one is a bit easier to work out seeing as Cammie has a pass and her friend has a bag. If Cammie's friend is indeed a punter, then she is one very impressive punter. You could almost say Katie-like...
Our second installment of the divine Ms Lee and her massive, hypnotic arms sees Kaite (dwarfing and) catching up with another Figure Olympian, Wendy Fortino, who it must be said is a lot more entertaining than most female muscle interviewees.
And so to our award for the woman most about the Olympia...
I think it's fair to say it would be easier to count the women Esther "Tete" Rodriguez Sosa (see FMS passim) didn't get a picture with than those that she did. Our "Tete" selection includes "proper" FBB Janeen Lankowski, fellow Mexican Sandra Grajales Romero, pro Bikini's sole Hot and Hard 100 rep Yarishna, Las Vegas businesswoman Larissa Reis, and the one and only last Ms Olympia.
But it's not just at the Expo where the muscle is at, but everywhere. Or so it seems.
You could probably get a serious swoon on just using the lifts and walking around the hotel(s), stalking the corridors... Who the sizzlers above are I do not know (again, feel like I should, certainly wish I did) but there's no mistaking a glammed up Karina.
And for our third (and last) Katie interview, we move up a division to Physique, and the "super ripped" Jodi Boam. On this occasion, Jodi really is worth listening to ("I get to flex in Physique, that I love"), and you may not just want to watch Katie.
And finally, the award for the place most FMS staffers would have liked to have been during the Olympia goes to the swimming pool where Singapore's finest Melissa Wee was (really really) showing off (almost all) her very Christian yet sinfully sexy bod.
Her Facebook, not her. Her Instagram, not her either, and her Twitter... you get the idea. In her absence, rumours abound. Arrested in Thailand for possession of steroids; taking "a break" to undergo "massive" amounts of cosmetic surgery and/or a sex change; still out there but ripping schmugs off for non-existent pay-in-advance webcam dates and then blaming her ex-manager for hijacking all her accounts... And yet she still makes the Hot and Hard 100 list! The search for Penpraghai continues...
[FMS, Hot and Hard 100 2015]
Penpraghai in 2012 - those abs @NY Pro; those glutes @Titans Grand Prix
She was one of the first FMS Women of the Year, a webcam sensation before any of the female muscle pay sites had picked up on her earnings potential. That year, 2011, she competed at the Juliette Bergmann Classic in a category called "Bodyphysique" against one other woman Gisa ter Haar, who looked perfectly great until Penpraghai walked onto the stage. A pro card followed her win, and 2012 saw her in the US in the (then new) Physique division. She gained a sensational 3rd at the New York Pro, but then only managed 11th at the Titans Grand Prix later in the year. By then, she was on every female muscle pay site, her sculpted body - just as it was in her webcam shows - barely covered. She was, without question, a star, fans (by fair means or foul) desperate to get hold of her photosets and clips. FMS readers called her "the last word in beauty and power" and wondered "how could anyone not get turned on by her?" She was a "once in a lifetime" session experience, "not to be missed", her body "perfection". The world of female muscle had never seen anything quite like her...
And then, she disappeared completely.
As noted above, her absence did not make the hearts of many female muscle lovers grow less fond, not for the first couple of years anyway, despite the accusations and rumours. Then, back in the early spring of this year, the odd photo of her started to turn up. New photos. Selfies in the car, a couple of shots of her in the gym. Glad to see you're back! her followers told her. No response. Is this another fake account? we wondered. And then, in June, Penpraghai actually writes something on one of her posts - "13 weeks out". What's the competition? asked her followers.
Turns out it was the Arizona Pro. And she won.
Now I don't know anything about the truth of all those rumours, although I'm pretty sure that we can conclusively say now that Penpraghai didn't undergo a sex change operation. Perhaps she was arrested for possession of steroids; perhaps she did scam a few schmugs. It seems more likely to me that the scammer was someone pretending to be her, the same person who set up those fake accounts. Anyway, I'm just glad to see her back, and I'm betting those pay sites are too. Seems to me she's added a bit of size to her perfect frame. Those bigger muscles will look even better in next to nothing.
Congratulations Penpraghai!
I'm very happy you're back, and I hope you're back for good.
And finally, as promised on Wednesday, here is the order of placings for the WPD in Arizona in case you actually did play the I-could-be-an-IFBB-judge game...
1. Penpraghai; 2. Heather Grace; 3. Trish Warren; 4. Hailey McGrath (on her pro debut); 5. Margita Zamolova; 6. Patricia Mello; 7. B Barnett (which we knew); 8. Amy Bowen; 9. Billie Cavalier; 10. Christine Sabo; 11. Indrell Thomas; 12. Joanna Romano; 13. Esther Carnabuci (also on pro debut); 14. Keri Ann Heitzman; 15. Tracy Weller.
Other competitors "unplaced".
How did you do?
Two more RP2016 posts to come this weekend.
Until tomorrow, it's goodbye from me, and it's goodbye from Penpraghai.
I saw this on Google. I thought it was a real woman...
It's an easy mistake to make when first coming across the work of Andreas Siberis, aka Siberianar, a mistake I made myself. This digital artist from the USA is, as those more qualified to judge have pointed out, producing "the best 3D female muscle ever seen".
Don't be fooled into thinking you've seen his best if all you've seen are my ten selections here today. I've taken them only from the images freely available on his Deviant Art gallery. For more of Siberianar's work, you'll need to head to his Patreon page and cough up a bit of cash. $1 a month will get you some of it, $10 a month (or more) and you get the lot. Be warned though, he's recently made the decision to quit his job and the fallout has meant an end to posting for now. A temporary end I hope.
However he decides to continue - be it continuing on Patreon or elsewhere - I can't think of an artist whose work better deserves any support you can afford to give.
Did Kristy Hawkins invent the single bicep in-car selfie?
My memory is a little hazy about when camera phones became viable, but the file information attached to this pic says it was taken in January 2007, nine years ago.
Whether that makes it the earliest known example I couldn't say, but it's certainly the earliest example I've come across in my (less than comprehensive) research.
What we do know is that everybody's at it now...
But while the in-car selfie might have a short (if longer than imagined) history, images of female muscle and (muscle) cars go much further back to the ol' magazine years.
TREASURES FROM THE CARCHIVE
Rozann Keyser (left) shows us how she'd like to be paraded through the streets. If you are too young to be familiar with the glorious Rozann, you might like to check out her routine from the 1993 NPC Nationals. She won the Heavyweight title and turned pro the following year (but there was no parade as far as I know). Valerie Gangi (right, in the string) was, you may recall, a 1997 Ms Olympia competitor and then over 15 years later competed at the Olympia again, this time in the Physique Division.
And here's a real treasure.
The owner of that Mitsubishi could probably put it up for auction on the female muscle forums and make a mint - "as touched by Zuzana in that bikini". Just the tyre even.
Other cars might be worth a bob or two as well...
"Scented by Brigita"
"Soiled by Dena" (sorry Dena)
Probably not for sale.
And perhaps most valuable of all...
"As washed by Julie"
Now do you remember that scene in The Counsellor with Cameron Diaz getting freaky on Javier Bardem's car? I wonder where Cormac McCarthy got the idea for that...
