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10 questions with Rasa Von Werder AKA Kellie Everts - the progenitor of Female Bodybuilding
1. How did you get started?
Kellie: I started lifting weights when I was 18 years old and 6 months pregnant as insurance against my body falling apart. I did not want to lose y priceless beautiful body and people told me that childbirth would ruin it.
2. How does your diet and training differ from then to now?
Kellie: Then I did not know that much about diet. I basically starved myself whenever I had to perform, and the same in bodybuilding - just starvation. For a while I was on that awful all-protein diet that Weider and most men espoused and I now realize how wrong that was. Today I eat no meat except on holidays. I eat about 2000 calories a day of wholesome fruits, vegetables, roots and grains. For dinner today I had two potatoes cut into small thin pieces with cut-up onions and string beans lightly sautéed in sparing oil with tofu added on top. All is warmed up and put under a diced fresh tomato. I drink only green tea or water, my emphasis on wholesome organic foods when possible, lots of fresh foods, stay away from processed foods and fast foods. I eat cottage cheese, tuna and all sorts of fish eggs and nuts - I am not a vegetarian.
3.Were did you grow up?
New Jersey until the age of fifteen (I was born in Germany and came to the United States at 5) then in Brooklyn for one year and then to California for almost 10 years.
4. Did your friends and family support you?
Kellie: Not one soul. My husband at the time scoffed at the idea of my starting to lift weights but I had him show me some movements. I lifted till I got sore - it was effective. There are many nude photos of me at age 19 in Hollywood as I had been doing this sort of lifting and it shows. You can tell I look different from the other nude models - I had beautiful deltoids for one thing.
5.Who are your idols in life?
Kellie: I have always been keen on the lives of the Saints and the Heroes and Heroines of God - whatever religion they might be.
6. How did you meet Dan Lurie?
Kellie: I met Dan Lurie at his shows and he is a person everyone loves. I like his energetic personality. He is a great showman and he understands show business inside and out. I am also a bit of a promoter like him - I feel we have that in common.
7. What was your favorite article that you wrote?
Kellie: Wow! I suppose you refer to bodybuilding. When I finish these questions I will put it at the end. I must look through my bodybuilding folder.
8.How does it feel being the progenitor?
Kellie: It feels good now that you have recognized me with this award but before I felt sorrow at being overlooked for this great achievement.
9.What is your favorite food?
Kellie: LOL - the stuff you can't eat of course like cakes. I love cakes with frosting and cupcakes. Those are consumed rarely. What I eat constantly are apples, bananas - all healthy stuff.
10. Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
Kellie: My hope right now is to get my life story published and made into a movie. That would help the other things I want to do like go on a lecture tour, travel doing faith healing and shaki transmission. I am working for Mother God and Matriarchy and wish to promote to the whole world. In the last 7 months I have put together 5 books, two on Matriarchy, one on Yoga/Christianity and one on dream interpretation. My latest is on Celebrity Souls in Purgatory. These can all be found at Lulu.com under RasaVon Werder. As you know I am partly done with my bodybuilding book and working on a few others simultaneously.
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