Biography:
I was born in Amsterdam,
Holland on February 2, 1984. My parents had come from Persia in 1981. I
grew up in Amsterdam and had lived there all my life.
In early summer of 2004
I took my first three month trip to America. I was going to stay for three
months. I traveled from Los Angeles to San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix,
San Jose, Miami Beach, South Beach and Fort Lauderdale, all to work with
the best photographers in town and to have fun visiting these nice places.
I had a wonderful experience traveling around and exploring each new city
I visited and had a great time working with the photographers who all had
a special eye in photography in their own unique way. I love to have great
artists as professional photographers capture images of me to see in the
results how they all define beauty in a different way. My three month trip
turned into a one year trip where I worked with several great
photographers. Then, as I noticed the success of my fitness modeling, I
decided I wanted to start to compete. I won my first fitness competition,
3 weeks after that I placed 2nd in the National Championships and before I
knew it 3 weeks later I was standing on the European Championship stage to
compete in Figure. I love competing and am still learning so much (but we
never really stop learning anyways) and things are really looking up for
me. This is only the beginning..
Fitness Model, Competitor History:
Career Highlights: 1st in my first fitness competition, 2nd in the National
Championships, 3 weeks later competed in the European Championships and
now preparing for the World Championships, all in my first season of
competing
Sports/ athletics: Running, swimming, fitness, cycling, jogging, weightlifting
Bodybuilding: Haven't competed in bodybuilding
Figure: I
competed in one Figure competition and two fitness competitions.
Modeling history:
Photographers I've
shot with:
Michael Stycket (CA) - Fitness
Michael Neveux (CA) - Fitness
Brennan Cheung (CA) - Glamour
Orlando Perez (CA) - Fashion
Michael Palmer (London) - Fitness
Thomas Oed (OC) - Fitness
Scott Appleby (Toronto) - Fitness
coming soon: Brian Moss - Fitness
Models I've shot
with:
Tami Hernden
Sebastian Large
Laura Bussman
Competitions:
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March 2005 - NBBF/IFBB
Open Eemsmond Cup (Emerald Cup) - 1st place Fitness
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April 2005 - IFBB
Dutch Championships (National) - 2nd place Fitness
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May 2005 - IFBB
European Championships in Yalta, the Ukraine (International) - 13th
place Figure
Films: none
Print:
-
Colleen Kelly Designs
- Swimwear - Catalog 2005 collection
-
Sport & Fitness
magazine (Holland and Belgium) - Cover - March/April 2005
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Sport & Fitness
Magazine (Holland and Belgium) - Open Eemsmond Cup contest coverage -
May/June 2005
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Female Magazine
(Holland) - Open Eemsmond Cup contest coverage - May/June 2005
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Flex Magazine
(Holland) - Open Eemsmond Cup contest coverage - June/July 2005
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Sport & Fitness
Magazine (Holland and Belgium) - IFBB Dutch Championships Contest
coverage - July/August 2005
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Sport & Fitness
Magazine (Holland and Belgium) - IFBB European Championships Contest
coverage - July/August 2005
What makes a great
fitness model? I'm never in bad shape, love to work out and do fitness
modeling any time of the year, love to travel and love getting exposure
(especially in the magazines). Basically I love everything about the
sport. I am also originally Persian, which separates me from the
mainstream fitness models.
What are the secrets
to become a fitness model? Fitness has to become your lifestyle. You
have to want to be a fitness model and train and eat like a fitness model.
What did you do to
become a model? Just be myself, I loved to train anyways and as I
started to get certain photographers attention I kinda rolled into it and
got hooked ever since.
What are the benefits
to being a fitness model? You get to do fun photo shoots on the beach,
you get great exposure and lots of positive feedback, you're always in
(relatively) good shape, you always get compliments on your physique and
you can help others in helping them achieve their fitness goals
What are your
favorite things about being a fitness model? Feeling good about
myself, competing, doing fun photo shoots and getting great exposure would
be my favorite things.
How do you stay
beautiful? Just by being myself, I enjoy working out and eating healthy
and clean and especially, I feel good about myself. That keeps you
beautiful, don't you agree?
How do you stay fit,
do you have a personal trainer, chef, work out, what do you do? I have
a personal trainer, a nutritionist, someone very special I learn many
important things from, I work out (of course), I do cardio and I eat clean
all year and add in cheat meals/days here and there to enjoy bad food once
in a while.
How do you keep you
skin healthy and fresh looking? By eating lots of chocolate every day.
Ha, I wish!! Seriously, by eating clean, working out and drinking at least
1 gallon of water a day.
What do you believe
is good health and fitness? Weightlifting a couple times a week, doing
cardio a couple times a week or other sports where you stay active, eating
healthy and drinking plenty of water.
Do you prefer to tan
or use tanning lotion? I prefer to tan, I tan easily.
First Interest In
Fitness/Bodybuilding When I saw the female Figure and bodybuilding
athletes was when the bug bit me.
Goal Within The
modeling/ Fitness Industry To compete and to continue to grow and win
my competitions and to get a good sponsor I can do great work for.
Life Goals To
grow as a person and feel happy as a good person, to stay healthy and fit
and to live a happy life with someday my own family.
Dreams Just to be
happy
What is your
Pre-contest Diet
Breakfast: Protein shake
with oatmeal
snacks: Whole wheat
crackers with chicken breast
lunch: Vegetables with
chicken breast/fish/beef
dinner: Egg whites or
chicken breast
Supplements you use Multi-vitamins, vitamin C, Whey protein, L-Glutamine
What is your Regular
Diet, same? Almost the same, but a bit more of everything.
Contest/off-season
Work Out Routine: Contest and off-season is the same, I do each body
part once a week, divided in three days.
Favorites
Favorite body part to
work: Legs
Ideal vacation: Tropical beaches in a cultural town/island with lots to do, but not too
crowded.
Least favorite food tuna cans in water
Ideal Man: charming, healthy, intelligent, feels good about himself but doesn't "love
"himself too much, a bit wild but careful at the same time and caring.
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Caring, intelligent, need excitement and fun to make life interesting and
love surprises.
Things I hate:
Things I love I
love to have fun, learn new things, develop myself and I love to travel.
Favorite animals: My baby chihuahua doggy 'Lady'
Favorite food: Ghirardelli's Hot Fudge sundae! Looot's of Chocolate, yumm.
Favorite movie: Anything with Jim Carey, Arnold Schwarzenegger of Van Damme
Favorite shoes: Stiletto shoes casual Adidas shoes
Workout wear: Training jazz pants and matching top, something different every day.
Favorite thing to do: Being active on the beach and walking the boulevards, exploring new
cities/islands, enjoying cheat meals with my friends and shopping,
Favorite diet food: Mackerel and beef
Favorite music: House / progressive
Turn-ons: A
charming guy who's character and looks are exactly how I like a man to be
Favorite Dessert:
Ghirardelli's Hot Fudge sundae!
Favorite Nutritional
Supplements, why: Whey protein, because they are available in
different flavors.
Favorite Cardio Work
out, why: Jogging, it makes me feel good
Favorite Cardio
Equipment, why: Treadmill, it's the most basic machine, I prefer
basic.
Favorite exercise
equipment, why: The Leg press machine, I really have a love-hate
relationship with it.. ;-) It works great on me and hurts me a lot.
Special Skills:
I am also a writer (but haven't published any of my work yet) and
I study business engineering.
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