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http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x215415694/Ex-Playboy-Playmate-afflicted-with-HIV-becomes-bodybuilder (http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x215415694/Ex-Playboy-Playmate-afflicted-with-HIV-becomes-bodybuilder)
By Charita Goshay
CantonRep.com staff writer
JACKSON TWP. — .At 18, Rebekka Armstrong graced the pages of Playboy magazine. By 22, she was contemplating suicide after learning that she had HIV.
Today, Armstrong uses her body as a weapon in the fight against the spread of HIV and AIDS. The model-turned-competitive bodybuilder visited Kent State University’s Stark campus Tuesday in conjunction with the school’s weeklong observance of World AIDS Day.
Activities include a fundraiser, AIDS quilt display, discussions, presentations by Armstrong, and free HIV testing in partnership with the Alliance Health Department.
Armstrong contracted HIV while having unprotected sex in high school. She said bodybuilding has given her confidence as well as physical strength to fight the disease.
During her former life as a model, Armstrong said near-starvation, bingeing and purging were a way of life.
“When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1989, I got very sick, very quickly,” she said.
CONFIDENCE BUILDER
At one point, Armstrong dropped to 80 pounds. To avoid what she calls the “wasting syndrome,” she educated herself on fitness and nutrition and began weightlifting in 2000.
“AIDS is catabolic which means it’s a meat-eater; it eats muscle mass,” she said.
By 2002, Armstrong was fit enough to win her first bodybuilding competition, at California’s world-famous Muscle Beach.
“I started doing this to stay alive, but then I thought, ‘Hey, I want to show it off,’ ” she said.
Armstrong said she eschews steroids.
“I don’t want to look like a man,” she said. “I want to look feminine and graceful on stage.”
Armstrong, who is nationally ranked in her sport, said bodybuilding has helped her to better-weather medical treatment.
“I do this also for myself mentally,” she said. “Depression can be pervasive. This kicks depression’s (butt).”
Armstrong said she’s gotten support from her family and friends, including Hugh Hefner.
“My mom’s gotten into it,” she said with a laugh. “Hef has seen my transformation; he makes jokes but he’s proud. He also very proud of me for being open about having HIV and AIDS.”
Campus spokeswoman Cynthia Williams said Armstrong is example of someone who hasn’t allowed her illness to stop her from making a difference.
“She turned her life around,” Williams said. “She’s been a great advocate for HIV awareness. It shows you can do anything, regardless of your affliction.”
YOUTH AT RISK
Lisa Noble and Bradley Middleton of Kent Stark’s Spectrum group spearheaded the event.
“There wasn’t anything widely available in the community,” Noble said of World AIDS Day events. “For young people, there wasn’t a lot of programming, at least that targeted college kids.”
Noble and Middleton both said they encounter college students who have great awareness of HIV, as well as some who know very little.
“Young people think they know about it,” Noble said. “Unfortunately, a lot of parents don’t talk about it.”
Armstrong, who disclosed her disease in 1994, said she’s aware that her fitness might send a mixed message.
“Yes, people with HIV don’t necessarily look sick ...We’re not seeing the face of AIDS in our everyday circles like we used to,” she said. “People like Magic Johnson and me saying ‘These meds are saving our lives.’ But to the uneducated mind that has never taken pills, or been in the hospital or in pain, it may not seem like a big deal.
“People are living longer, and because of treatment, other people are putting themselves at more risk. Every hour in the United states, two, 13-to-24 year-olds are getting infected.”
Armstrong also cites what she calls “the human condition” of denial, noting that one-third of all people infected don’t know it.
“It can’t happen to me,” she said. “But you can’t identify the face of AIDS.”
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Would you hit it?
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Would you hit it?
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Would you hit it?
I wouldn't hit it if she didn't have AIDS.
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“I don’t want to look like a man,” she said. :-\ :-\
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Um she scorns steroids cos she dont wana look like a man but has she looked in the mirror lately..dumb lying hypocrictical c u n t
Agreed. Those evil steroids that she denies taking are helping keep her and many others with HIV/AIDS much healthier and alive far longer. If she really wants to help others with the same disease, she should be truthful. By possibly influencing others with the disease to "just say no" to juice, she's likely doing far more harm than good.
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LOLLLLLL
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now that she has AIDS, how can she fulfill her "Offstage" female bodybuilder duties ( i.e. wrestling guys, prostate massages etc.)
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Agreed. Those evil steroids that she denies taking are helping keep her and many others with HIV/AIDS much healthier and alive far longer. If she really wants to help others with the same disease, she should be truthful. By possibly influencing others with the disease to "just say no" to juice, she's likely doing far more harm than good.
Goes to show you that every juiced BBer denies roid use, even those (like her) who given her condition wont be criticized.
WOOOOSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Hugh Hefner is HIV free right?
i heard on the radio that he makes the chicks take a std test before having sex with them. How did she get though?
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Seriously, one of the few diseases that mainstream medicine rountiely prescribes anabolic steriods for, and she's claiming "natural"? What an idiot.
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Seriously, the dumb cunt had aids-related muscle wasting, one of the few diseases that mainstream medicine rountiely prescribes anabolic steriods for, and she's claiming "natural"? What an idiot.
make she "meant" she has natural levels for an 18 yo dude? ;D
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Very old news considering she's been competing in the NPC for several years now.
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Hugh Hefner is HIV free right?
i heard on the radio that he makes the chicks take a std test before having sex with them. How did she get though?
1) where did you get the idea that HH fucked her. She was in his magazine, not his bedroom...
2) Playboy at 18, diagnosed at 22. She did playboy before she caught HIV
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:-X AIDS :-X
Do not want
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Seriously, the dumb cunt had aids-related muscle wasting, one of the few diseases that mainstream medicine rountiely prescribes anabolic steriods for, and she's claiming "natural"? What an idiot.
+1
hahaha brutal manface
(http://www.cantonrep.com/archive/x1682946392/g1a9190766195079fe65a60a182a4df93e3a8af8bd425a3.jpg)
“I don’t want to look like a man,” she said. “I want to look feminine and graceful on stage.”
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Very old news considering she's been competing in the NPC for several years now.
7th at l-heavy of 2009 NPC USA and overall-winner of Los Angeles 2009
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Why does every pro has to admit juice usage?! Not every movie start or athlete in other sports admit about all their drug use so why do bodybuilders have to?
I think some people want others to admit it so they keep telling themselves that great bodybuilder is ain't shit and only reason he is like that is because of juice and usually added with comment " if i juiced i would be like that as well" OR they did juice in the past and barely got any results with juice so their new attitude now is " juice is for losers and pussies who will shrink back to nothing after they get off it".
Lots of successful people in this world would not be who they are today without someonce or some help they received in the past but it still does not take away from the fact that they are up there doing whatever it is that they love to do now.
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I had dinner with her and her b/f a few years ago (he was a bodybuilder, too--a former security guard of Ozzy Osbourne), she was very kind. I don't blame her for claiming natural if she's looking to expand her exposure, but with her condition, I would think that this is an excellent opportunity to honest and help show that steroids sure didn't hurt her and her HIV-status.
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I do agree that more sick people need to come out with success stories how steroids helped them. At this time its just too much negative bs about them and most of it is not even facts just hearsay bs.
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why didnt she choosed for figure or something, the difference between figure and bodybuilding is just using more roids, its no archievement.
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I'm a Rebekka fan. She's good people.
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LOLLLLLL
(http://www.chunkypop.com/m_pictures/magic.jpg)
Hahaha!
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LOLLLLLL
(http://www.chunkypop.com/m_pictures/magic.jpg)
hahahahaha
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No way she's getting scripted enough to compete unless she's doc shopping.
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I'm a Rebekka fan. She's good people.
Schmoedom > Hypocrisy :-\
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Please put a pic of her when she was a playmate. I want to see the difference.
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Please put a pic of her when she was a playmate. I want to see the difference.
http://www.rebekkaarmstrong.com/ (http://www.rebekkaarmstrong.com/)
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Great arms, but I would never hit the pu$$y that could kill me. :-\
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a funny thing when i seen this . actually i live 10 min form where she was speaking that article was printed in my local paper. just funny how a guy in tawian posted it. small world
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a funny thing when i seen this . actually i live 10 min form where she was speaking that article was printed in my local paper. just funny how a guy in tawian Taiwan posted it. small world
:)
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Why does every pro has to admit juice usage?! Not every movie start or athlete in other sports admit about all their drug use so why do bodybuilders have to?
Because actors and athletes can actually make it based on talent alone. ;)
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Because actors and athletes can actually make it based on talent alone. ;)
Spot ON !
BTW any pic of the gal when she was a Playmate??
WOOOSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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(http://www.a-tribute-to.com/years/1986/09_rebekka_armstrong/hires/a02.jpg)
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why do they always have fake tits in the US
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why do they always have fake tits in the US
Because guys like them.
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1) where did you get the idea that HH fucked her. She was in his magazine, not his bedroom...
2) Playboy at 18, diagnosed at 22. She did playboy before she caught HIV
Actually, I believe the article linked to the pic said that she caught HIV from unprotected sex in high school. So she was apparently carrying the virus several years before being diagnosed, which is not at all uncommon.
Even if Hef did have her tested at 18, and she had tested negative or false-negative for whatever reason (not unheard of either - especially early on), and he did shag her without a rubber - female-to-male transmission of HIV is far more difficult than other STDs. Odds of him NOT contracting the virus would have been far in his favor according to experts. Still, I would not want to play those odds myself.
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Hey who deleted my racist post? JK, I would never do such a thing. ;D
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haha its money in the bank, cruzito
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No way she's getting scripted enough to compete unless she's doc shopping.
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but.......
Yip Yip
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why do they always have fake tits in the US
They have the saying "big is beautiful"
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Good on her! She looks decent as far as virilized women go, but she should admit her AAS use. Her voice is heavier than Slayer.
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why do they always have fake tits in the US
everything in the us is fake. somehow "fakes" appeal more to public. :-\
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dammmmmmmmmmm
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=308886.0;attach=349068;image)
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dammmmmmmmmmm
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=308886.0;attach=349068;image)
Looks like a male fitness physique with a oversized gyno
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why do they always have fake tits in the US
bc we are averse to the saggy flapjacks portrayed in National Geographic
we also prefer our women to shave their armpits
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that girl is superhott hell id marry her!!
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HIV included?
Off topic: What do you think her stack is like?
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HIV included?
Off topic: What do you think her stack is like?
A lot of oral PED's
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Off topic: What do you think her stack is like?
Winny is a helluva drug!
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HIV included?
Off topic: What do you think her stack is like?
Now we're talkin'. I'd shag that one like there's no tomorrow.
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Now we're talkin'. I'd shag that one like there's no tomorrow.
Do it safe, wear earplugs
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Classy lady.
This post should read, Ex-Playmate gets HIV, now takes many steroids.
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Now we're talkin'. I'd shag that one like there's no tomorrow.
"competitor" = drug user
Brutal man voice on this bitch...gross.
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that ginger girl has a pretty face but that voice, dear god. I wouldn't want to picture her whispering sweet-nothings into my ear.
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She visited Kent State University’s Stark campus Tuesday in conjunction with the school’s weeklong observance of World AIDS Dayhttp://www.galesburg.com/sports/x2072232334/Former-Playboy-Playmate-afflicted-with-HIV-becomes-bodybuilder-spreads-AIDS-awareness (http://www.galesburg.com/sports/x2072232334/Former-Playboy-Playmate-afflicted-with-HIV-becomes-bodybuilder-spreads-AIDS-awareness)
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If Ginger's husky voice got to be too annoying for me at any time while I was doing any and all sorts of nasty things to her, I would simply take off my socks at that point (a REAL Getbigger doesn't normally take his socks off just to shag some broad) and use them as a gag so I could finish.
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If Ginger's husky voice got to be too annoying for me at any time while I was doing any and all sorts of nasty things to her, I would simply take off my socks at that point (a REAL Getbigger doesn't normally take his socks off just to shag some broad) and use them as a gag so I could finish.
Just stick your dick in her yapper.
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Just stick your dick in her yapper.
Good idea as well.
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Seriously, one of the few diseases that mainstream medicine rountiely prescribes anabolic steriods for, and she's claiming "natural"? What an idiot.
maybe she considers natural less than 500mg test weekly?
500mg test inject a week=new natural
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Seriously, one of the few diseases that mainstream medicine rountiely prescribes anabolic steriods for, and she's claiming "natural"? What an idiot.
no no no...got, you got it all wrong. Those arent anabolics they prescribe, they are "anti wasting" medicines. Unfortunately, large muscles and a deepened voice are a "side effect" of such medicine. ::) ::) ::)
LOL @ natural status
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no no no...got, you got it all wrong. Those arent anabolics they prescribe, they are "anti wasting" medicines. Unfortunately, large muscles and a deepened voice are a "side effect" of such medicine. ::) ::) ::)
LOL @ natural status
He doesnt have it all wrong as i know few with HIV that are on steroids by doctors prescription.
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I wouldn't want to be in the same contest as her, imagine standing next to somone with aids, i wouldn't want her sweat to touch me lol.
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I wouldn't want to be in the same contest as her, imagine standing next to somone with aids, i wouldn't want her sweat to touch me lol.
What exactly are you trying to tell, "dachande" ?
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He doesnt have it all wrong as i know few with HIV that are on steroids by doctors prescription.
its was a joke, lost in translation.
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Now we're talkin'. I'd shag that one like there's no tomorrow.
OMG OMG she goes to my gym!!!
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I wouldn't want to be in the same contest as her, imagine standing next to somone with aids, i wouldn't want her sweat to touch me lol.
To say nothing of the fact that your welterweight ass would be significantly outmuscled by a girl from Playboy.
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(http://www.a-tribute-to.com/years/1986/09_rebekka_armstrong/hires/a02.jpg)
Woa.
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I wouldn't want to be in the same contest as her, imagine standing next to somone with aids, i wouldn't want her sweat to touch me lol.
Youve been probably closer bunch of times with people HIV positive and not even know it......just think about it, AIDS has been around sice 81'
WOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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You ain't lying. I've known quite a few that "the package" wrapped up permanently.
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feelgood story of the year, right there
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Woa.
yeah.. she's gorgeous there.
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that ginger girl has a pretty face but that voice, dear god. I wouldn't want to picture her whispering sweet-nothings into my ear.
Some women have naturally deeper voice, like my aunt, and she's not a drug user, doesn't train etc. Not every woman has a Betty Boop voice you know.
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(http://www.a-tribute-to.com/years/1986/09_rebekka_armstrong/hires/a02.jpg)
Weak calves...
"1"
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any pics of her before she became a man ?
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Some women have naturally deeper voice, like my aunt, and she's not a drug user, doesn't train etc. Not every woman has a Betty Boop voice you know.
This voice isn't normal for a young non-obese woman. PED use became normal for fitness/figure woman.
Check the end of this vid