Roxanne Edwards interview and Kathy Acker piece

   Body builder Roxanne Edwards is always trying to make herself look as feminine as possible while still maintaining her large muscular build. Edwards explains in her interview that she is often portrayed as manly, and she explains that she loses points in competitions for appearing as such. While standing only 5 foot 3 inches, and weighting around 138 pounds, she still manages to throw up insane numbers in the weight room, such as 315 in bench press, squatting 275, dead lift 405, and incredibly leg presses 1025! Wow. Now she explains the different types of muscular people starting from cut, then to ripped, on to shredded, and finally pealed. She explains that she is shredded and quickly on her way to becoming pealed, explaining how you can visually see some of the fibers in her abs moving underneath the skin. Then she goes on to explain the difficulties and effects that women body builders face, such as losing their breasts because the muscle takes over the fatty tissue in the breasts. She loves to do nude modeling so she can show off all of her hard work, even the parts of the body that are hidden by clothing, but she says she isn't interested in doing erotica. She shares her interest in men and how her ideal man must be muscular just as she is.

   Kathy Acker is also a body builder and she explains more in depth that the gym for her is another world. The gym is where she separates herself from society and is able to focus on one single factor, and that is body building. Acker also explains that to successfully body build you need all the right amounts of sleep, dieting, and exercise or your muscles will not grow properly or to the size you wish.

   Personally I found Roxanne's interview and her pictures more interesting mainly because she explains how she is still a woman, even though if you ad seen her in public you may think otherwise. Also she just wants top achieve her self goal of being a great body builder while still being able to maintain a normal lifestyle like any other girl. Roxanne can be seen in my eyes as a roll model to any woman or man for that matter that feels out of place in society and she is the pure definition of wanting to be seen as just a normal human being.