She was introduced to the sport by an old scholar Aereal Johnson who was very persistent in transforming her body into that of a bodybuilder and the rest is history.
Later, she appeared in commercials for Jell-O, McDonald's, and Crayola.
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His father was of Hungarian Jewish descent, while Jerry's maternal grandparents, Salha and Selim Hosni, were Syrian Jewish immigrants from Aleppo.
She was the baby of the family with two older sisters Virginia and Dottie and an older brother, Richard, Jr.
She and her older brother Mark grew up on several military bases, including Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii,.