Supersize She on TLC

[dreamgirl]

Did anyone else watch this? It was about a heavyweight female bodybuilder named Joanna Thomas and her getting ready for the Ms. Olympia contest in Vegas. They talked about how she won like $2,000 for coming in 2nd at her first show which qualified her for the Ms. Olympia show and her male counterpart won $120,000. Sad. It was really a great piece I thought. I was hooked the whole hour.

[Bouncer]

Ya, it was on about a month ago. Good show. It really show's how weak womens bodybuilding is in terms of sponsorship and so on, its almost non-existent. Joanna is a very nice girl.

[bad14u]

She is pretty big!

[urso8up]

I missed it It i am going to have to look to see if it is on down here yet she looks pretty good. Nice size and all

[powerhouse 48]

they've tagged her "Buff Barbie"

[wheyman]

Very nice!

[Pumpdogg]

Pretty girl from the pic

PD

[meat12]

Yeah i saw it pretty good show

[Luftdude]

Dang, I missed it last night.

LD

[Puma]

I totally caught it by accident.

It was really good, and I feel awful that those girl BBs make nothing for money. Not like the guys do much better (in comparison to other pro sports) but the women really are bad. What is so sad is that those changes to her body (voice, hair, etc) are never going to go away. It takes SERIOUS drive to do something that is forever to yourself like that, especially when you know that the money is not there.

All that said, does it seem to anyone that steroids/bodybuilding is getting a LOT of coverage on TV recently? Granted, I do get every cable channel, and I am a meathead, so I do look for it. But it really seems like there is a lot more media coverage towards our sport (and the drugs that surround it) recently. And I think that most of it has been quite positive. Could we be seeing a shift in public opinion?

I hope so.

Puma

[Cory]

It takes SERIOUS drive to do something that is forever to yourself like that, especially when you know that the money is not there.

It actually doesn't make any sense to me, unless there would be a good bit of money involved.

[Goosteady]

Damn, I would like to see this and don't have a damn clue when it comes on again...someone do a solid and bump this thread whenever they see it replaying...thanks

[bigpetefox]

She is so damn hot!! :drool:

[house1]

she is a very nice person - she works just as hard as her male counterparts its a shame she does not get compensated the same

[SonofBone]

I hope it is okay to post a link to her site. I saw it in the picture and thought I'd check it out...pretty interesting.

Joanna Thomas

You can add tour3.html to the end of that if you're interested in seeing the total physique.