Belinda Benn

Nationality: Duel citizenship, Australia and New Zealand

Birthday: 26 March 1964

Height 5.6

Average weight and body fat %: 123 pounds, 16%.

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People often ask me questions like, “Were you always so fit?” and “How do you stay in shape?” Plenty of people guess that I must have been into sports all my life or that I’m just hard-wired to be lean and muscular.

But the fact is, I never exercised even one little bit until I was 37, and somehow I had survived on a diet loaded with sugary foods and fat.

As a kid, I had asthma and spent a lot of time in a hospital. I was afraid of exercise. I led a conventional life, I got halfway through university and, at 23, I finally settled into marriage, work, and my church.

That was my life. I was happy in some ways, but I always felt somehow uneasy. I was devoted to my marriage and I worked hard, moving quickly up the ladder in the cosmetic industry.

By the time I was in my mid-30s, I had become an executive manager who traveled internationally showing others how to be beautiful.

In my 30s, that uneasy inner voice got louder. I went back to uni and earned an MBA, and I became an e-business manager. But the voice only got louder.

My world started spinning in the opposite direction in a dressing room while shopping for a bathing suit. I had been invited to a pool party, and I couldn’t possibly wear the frumpy old thing I found in the back of my closet. In front of a three-way mirror, I truly saw myself for the first time in years.

My body had paid a price. I had worked so hard to do what others expected of me, and now the cellulite and flab that was my body told the story of what was going on inside. I left the store without buying anything, and I went to the party with the realization that I had never owned a bikini or any kind of sexy outfit.

Suddenly, at 40, I was divorced, and now I had to make serious changes. In a drastic move, I sold everything, went backpacking solo in Central America, and I settled in Spain for a year to learn how to surf and speak Spanish.

It was the first time I did anything just for me, and it was an enormous challenge—and so rewarding—for someone who had never exercised in her life.

Somehow, in six months I went from barely able to paddle to finally catching a real wave. Before long I was surfing around the world.

I still wasn’t eating right, but when I entered a bikini contest at 44, I spent two months studying nutrition, leaning out, and spending lots of time in the gym.

I didn’t win, but that was the beginning of my passion and career as a personal trainer, strength and conditioning specialist, and an international fitness model.

Now I’m an international fitness model, leading fitness expert and transformation coach, and I work with both men and women to help them achieve the body they always dreamed of.

As someone who had never exercised until I was 37 years old, I know first hand what it feels like to be unhappy with my body and feel powerless to change it.

But now, as a 47 year-old fitness model, my message is that anyone can transform their body at any age into lean, strong, and the best it’s ever been.

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Blog: www.belindabennsblog.com

Get Lean: www.getleanprogram.com

Free Abs Program: www.breakthroughphysique.com

Free Super Food Snacks: www.thefitnesskitchen.com/freebonus/