Betty Brosmer
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Betty Weider with Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2016
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| Born |
August 2, 1935 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Betty Weider |
| Occupation | Trainer |
| Known for | Model, pin-up girl, author |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Weight | 106 lb (48 kg) |
| Spouse(s) | Joe Weider (m. 1961–2013), his death |
| Website | www |
Betty Brosmer (born August 2, 1935), later known by her married name Betty Weider, is an American bodybuilder and physical fitness expert. During the 1950s, she was a popular commercial model and pin-up girl. After marrying entrepreneur Joe Weider in 1961, she began a lengthy career as a spokesperson and trainer in the health and bodybuilding movements. She has been a longtime magazine columnist and co-authored several books on fitness and physical exercise.
Betty Brosmer was born in Pasadena, California, on August 2, 1935, to Andy and Vendla Brosmer. Her first name has sometimes been reported as Elizabeth, but she has stated that this is incorrect.
She lived her early childhood in Carmel but later, from about the age of ten, grew up in Los Angeles. Naturally small and slight of frame, Brosmer embarked on a personal bodybuilding and weight training regimen before she was a teenager. Raised as a sports fan by her father, she excelled in youth athletics and was "something of a tomboy".
A photo of Brosmer appeared in the Sears & Roebuck catalog when she was 13 years old. The following year she visited New York City with her aunt and posed for pictures with a professional photographic studio; one of her photos was sold to Emerson Televisions for use in commercial advertising, and it became a widely used promotional piece, printed in national magazines for several years thereafter.
Brosmer returned to Los Angeles and was soon asked to pose for two of the most celebrated pin-up artists of the era, Alberto Vargas and Earl Moran. Encouraged, her aunt took her back to New York City again in 1950, and this time they took up residency. Brosmer built her photographic portfolio while attending George Washington High School in Manhattan. Despite her age, over the next four years Brosmer found frequent work as a commercial model, and graced the covers of many of the ubiquitous postwar "pulps": popular romance and crime magazines and books. As she explained, "When I was 15, I was made up to look like I was about 25".
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