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PIP
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https://www.postwrestling.com/2021/06/23/melissa-coates-a-k-a-the-super-genie-passes-away-at-50/
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Blood clot amputation just like Flex hmmm
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It seems like a lot of female bodybuilders have been dropping off lately. RIP
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Oh wow - I didn't expect that at all. Horrible news.
She was ten years older than me, so I was in senior elementary school when she was making Thunder Bay proud, but she was very close to someone who I knew very well. All of her friends here were around her age, and given the 10-year age gap, I didn't fall into her social group in any way until 2005 [in 2007], at which point Melissa was not living here [at least not specifically at that time in 2007, unless she moved back for a period after].
Our closest mutual friend shared some stories that she shared with him, which I shouldn't in turn share here, out of respect that Melissa has passed. She is not here to confirm or deny the stories, and I heard them second hand from one of her friends during her success period in the 1990s, so I can't be 100% certain types they are correct, but I didn't have much reason to doubt their validity.
Let's just say...the bodybuilding and physique world can be a bit sleazy at times. More than is openly spoken of very often. Probably because competitors impacted fear reprisals in placings and media coverage.
Incidentally, our closest mutual friend has done WAY more in every steroid, peptide, and other PED under the sun, and enough recreational drugs to kill an elephant, yet is still alive at age 48. Genetic potential to survive despite abuse can be so unpredictable.
I was to young to meet Melissa during her success era in the 1990s, and she was living away from Thunder Bay by the time I met people in her former social circle.
I'm uncertain if she ever came back here to live post-2007. Many who leave do come back, some of whom even leave again, only to come back again [those usually stay put here once they return for a second time].
50 years old is way too young.
Condolences to Melissa's family, friends, and other loved ones.
She was a local treasure here in the mid- to late 1990s.
RIP Melissa Coates.
I had no idea this happened. Thanks for posting this, Body-Buildah. I'm sharing this with some people in my local community now.
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Way too young............RIP !!
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Matt,
In respect to her and your fellow Getbiggers, you definitely should share the sleazy stories.
What better eulogy?
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Wow how hard she fell before her demise, she really was a babe in her twenties, she was a living proof of aging is a bitch.
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her last few years she used to hang around with the wrestler sabu. i saw her several times at carson's wrestling world at the merchant square mall in allentown.
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her last few years she used to hang around with the wrestler sabu. i saw her several times at carson's wrestling world at the merchant square mall in allentown.
That proves she was crazy right there.
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Incidentally, our closest mutual friend has done WAY more in every steroid, peptide, and other PED under the sun, and enough recreational drugs to kill an elephant, yet is still alive at age 48. Genetic potential to survive despite abuse can be so unpredictable.
Matt,
48 is still young. Watch your mutual friend die in the next few years.
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I think this was her last interview, posted early March -
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Her Gofundme was still bringing in money, albeit, slowly.
I wonder if she took herself out or had an accident with the pain killers.
RIP.
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I just was reading an article about her from one of my old MuscleMag Int'l magazines from 1995.
I knew she shrunk, got super-sized implants, and was going to be a fitness girl or pro wrestler.
I didn't think she made it as far as ECW. I thought she was just doing the smaller wrestling promotions.
This is awful!
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Her Gofundme was still bringing in money, albeit, slowly.
I wonder if she took herself out or had an accident with the pain killers.
RIP.
Beat me to it. I never met a drug I didn't like, but I wouldn't touch things nowadays - that fentanyl business scares the bejeezus out of me
And 50? Fark...
I'll crack me one off to some of her old shots tonight out of respect
PIP :'(
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RIP !! She was very hot in her day.
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Oh wow - I didn't expect that at all. Horrible news.
She was ten years older than me, so I was in senior elementary school when she was making Thunder Bay proud, but she was very close to someone who I knew very well. All of her friends here were around her age, and given the 10-year age gap, I didn't fall into her social group in any way until 2005 [in 2007], at which point Melissa was not living here [at least not specifically at that time in 2007, unless she moved back for a period after].
Our closest mutual friend shared some stories that she shared with him, which I shouldn't in turn share here, out of respect that Melissa has passed. She is not here to confirm or deny the stories, and I heard them second hand from one of her friends during her success period in the 1990s, so I can't be 100% certain types they are correct, but I didn't have much reason to doubt their validity.
Let's just say...the bodybuilding and physique world can be a bit sleazy at times. More than is openly spoken of very often. Probably because competitors impacted fear reprisals in placings and media coverage.
Incidentally, our closest mutual friend has done WAY more in every steroid, peptide, and other PED under the sun, and enough recreational drugs to kill an elephant, yet is still alive at age 48. Genetic potential to survive despite abuse can be so unpredictable.
I was to young to meet Melissa during her success era in the 1990s, and she was living away from Thunder Bay by the time I met people in her former social circle.
I'm uncertain if she ever came back here to live post-2007. Many who leave do come back, some of whom even leave again, only to come back again [those usually stay put here once they return for a second time].
50 years old is way too young.
Condolences to Melissa's family, friends, and other loved ones.
She was a local treasure here in the mid- to late 1990s.
RIP Melissa Coates.
I had no idea this happened. Thanks for posting this, Body-Buildah. I'm sharing this with some people in my local community now.
Suggests shes sleazy then pretends not to
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Fuck that deep voiced bitch to Hades. First she goes pirate then she goes tits up. I hope that shenis sportin' shebeast roasts in hades. Fugly creature. Fugly to the soul.
And that "Sabu"?
Like resident retardo, Vincenzo Negron del la BottomBitch Nellie Boy, Sabu is worthless fuck of a fish.
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Fuck that deep voiced bitch to Hades. First she goes pirate then she goes tits up. I hope that shenis sportin' shebeast roasts in hades. Fugly creature. Fugly to the soul.
And that "Sabu"?
Like resident retardo, Vincenzo Negron del la BottomBitch Nellie Boy, Sabu is worthless fuck of a fish.
Thats not very nice.
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Thats not very nice.
The Scott is a miserable human being and all he seems to want to do here is share his misery with everyone else
Palumbo made a video this morning
RIP
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The Scott is a miserable human being and all he seems to want to do here is share his misery with everyone else
Palumbo made a video this morning
RIP
I'm honest. Will you attend the funeral and feast on her corpse you fucking fly? Why not, you're a fly. You eat shit and bother people.
Covid up, boy. No one likes you or the rest of your worthless schmoehorts here. We all think you should staycation in Chicago this summer, Baby Ruth.
FYYFF
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I'll wait 72 hours past her being laid to rest before jerking off to her. You know why? "It was out of respect".
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Beat me to it. I never met a drug I didn't like, but I wouldn't touch things nowadays - that fentanyl business scares the bejeezus out of me
And 50? Fark...
I'll crack me one off to some of her old shots tonight out of respect
PIP :'(
One of my neighbor's daughters just died a week ago from fentanyl- she was 18 years old. It was mixed in with something else- the autopsy report hasn't been made public yet.
Opioids are nuclear when taken in the wrong dose.
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I'm honest. Will you attend the funeral and feast on her corpse you fucking fly? Why not, you're a fly. You eat shit and bother people.
Covid up, boy. No one likes you or the rest of your worthless schmoehorts here. We all think you should staycation in Chicago this summer, Baby Ruth.
FYYFF
When my parents died nobody came by to give the token RIP bullshit- thank god because it is meaningless. I can't get worked up over anyone other than close family dying. It's just virtue signaling otherwise.
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I think this was her last interview, posted early March -
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Her Gofundme was still bringing in money, albeit, slowly.
I wonder if she took herself out or had an accident with the pain killers.
RIP.
Sad video to see them poor with all of those medical problems after years in the business. Sabu gave up his health to entertain the fans and now asks people to send him money to pay his bills. These guys need to save, save, save when they are young. That cash flow won't last forever. At least Melissa doesn't have to worry about it anymore.
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She was a pretty girl. I remember her back in the day. RIP
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Rampant drug use, cosmetic surgery done badly, unhealthy sordid lifestyle, amputation, financial ruin, early death.
Does this sound familiar?
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Rampant drug use, cosmetic surgery done badly, unhealthy sordid lifestyle, amputation, financial ruin, early death.
Does this sound familiar?
Yes remotely familiar.
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In the mid-nineties, when I was an editor at MuscleMag, I vividly recall passing a STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL young woman in an office hallway.
Melissa was a rising bodybuilder at the time Bob Kennedy told me. A former successful tennis player.
Can’t remember speaking with her much, if at all.
But MAN was she beautiful.
Then each year I’d see that beauty slip inch by inch with more steroid use, and then, as I’d imagine, rec drug use. And then the plastic surgery, lifestyle, etc.
Not a surprise she’s now dead.
We orchestrate our own fates.
Still, sad.
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In the mid-nineties, when I was an editor at MuscelMag, I vividly recall passing a STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL young woman in an office hallway.
Melissa was a rising bodybuilder at the time Bob Kennedy told me. A former successful tennis player.
Can’t remember speaking with her much, if at all.
But MAN was she beautiful.
Then each year I’d see that beauty slip inch by inch with more steroid use, and then, as I’d imagine, rec drug use. And then the plastic surgery, lifestyle, etc.
Not a surprise she’s now dead.
We orchestrate our own fates.
Still, sad.
She looked beautiful even dieted down for a contest. I'm sure she was gorgeous with 10 extra pounds or so during the offseason.
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She looked beautiful even dieted down for a contest. I'm sure she was gorgeous with 10 extra pounds or so during the offseason.
Brother, I kid you not, she was the “talk of the town” that day at MMI. Every male employee was flipping about how pretty and hot Melissa was.
“Holy shit! Did you see that girl in the building?!”
That kind of thing.
She truly was breathtaking.
And the woman destroyed it all with poor choice after poor choice.
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Brother, I kid you not, she was the “talk of the town” that day at MMI. Every male employee was flipping about how pretty and hot Melissa was.
“Holy shit! Did you see that girl in the building?!”
That kind of thing.
She truly was breathtaking.
And the woman destroyed it all with poor choice after poor choice.
When you were at MMI did you ever see Tonya Knight up close and in person? I had a huge school boy crush on her as a teenager. :P
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When you were at MMI did you ever see Tonya Knight up close and in person? I had a huge school boy crush on her as a teenager. :P
Actually, no. I did not. Unfortunately.
I, too, really dug her.
That poster of her with the saxophone sent my hormones racing.
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P.S. Tanya was already fading from the bodybuilding scene when I entered the industry.
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P.S. Tanya was already fading from the bodybuilding scene when I entered the industry.
She got married to one of the Poteat boys and had enough money to hang up the thong.
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Fortress did you ever see lenda murray in the flesh? We need a separate thread with real life experiences with the FBBs that online schmoes have been drooling over for decades.
The best we've had on getbig so far was tommy wishbone's denise rutkowski orange roughey shart story
Yes, I’ve seen Lenda in the flesh many times.
Pretty lady.
But Cory is my all-time high-level bodybuilding babe.
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Yes, I’ve seen Lenda in the flesh many times.
Pretty lady.
But Cory is my all-time high-level bodybuilding babe.
I always thought her sister was even hotter.
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I always thought her sister was even hotter.
Not me. But to each his own. They’re both very attractive women, no doubt.
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When you were at MMI did you ever see Tonya Knight up close and in person? I had a huge school boy crush on her as a teenager. :P
I got to see Tonya a few times …. Very beautiful up
Close!
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Rampant drug use, cosmetic surgery done badly, unhealthy sordid lifestyle, amputation, financial ruin, early death.
Does this sound familiar?
Flex Wheeler?
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I'll crack me one off to some of her old shots tonight out of respect
PIP :'(
I'll wait 72 hours past her being laid to rest before jerking off to her. You know why? "It was out of respect".
Oops - saw this too late :-[ :P
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I got to see Tonya a few times …. Very beautiful up
Close!
Did you jerk off to her often?
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Suggests shes sleazy then pretends not to
Exactly the same fucking thing I thought when he posted that.................GEE ZUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Flex Wheeler?
Flex Wheel
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Flex Wheel
Flex Wheel-less
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Flex Wheel-less
;D
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Flex Wheel-less
Flex wheelie
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P.I.P
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In that video she’s already well into ruining her looks
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She was pre-man-trans in that contest.
The decisions you make in your life can send you to success or ruin.
If she stuck to tennis she'd have had a totally different outcome.
Competitive bodybuilding at a high level quite often destroys lives.
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Did you jerk off to her often?
Hopefully not up close.
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In that video she’s already well into ruining her looks
Well stated, my friend.
She "poses" like a Fap-Dancer. I will NEVER understand the whorish attitude of female bodybuilders in general and idiots like Kai Greene in particular.
This "attitude" is why I am not a bodybuilder. I am more of a physical culturist.
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The first thing I noticed when Melissa began to go downhill was her hair became more and more strawlike.
The test/androgens, peroxide-ing and dieting was wrecking her tresses at an alarming rate.
Just a couple years into serious higher-up competing and Coates was seriously deteriorating.
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Was she married to Sabu?
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Was she married to Sabu?
I don’t know.
After the late-nineties I totally lost track of what she was doing.
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I don’t know.
After the late-nineties I totally lost track of what she was doing.
Creatures such as those two are pure examples of what it means to have an "imitation of life".
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The "dweeb" is Garry Bartlett, former Canadian amateur bodybuilder and one of the editors of the now-defunct MuscleMag International.
The last time I saw Melissa Coates, she was on the cover of Muscular Development in 1997 (I have that issue in my garage).
That is, Muscular Development-Fitness-Health, right before it morphed into All-Natural Muscular Development.
(https://www.musclememory.com/magCovers/md/md3401.jpg)
This was when MD wasn't putting anymore steroid-using bodybuilders (male ones, at least) on its covers after all the blowback from Andreas Munzer's death.
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The "dweeb" is Garry Bartlett, former Canadian amateur bodybuilder and one of the editors of the now-defunct MuscleMag International.
The last time I saw Melissa Coates, she was on the cover of Muscular Development in 1997. That is, Muscular Development-Fitness-Health, right before it morphed into All-Natural Muscular Development.
(https://www.musclememory.com/magCovers/md/md3401.jpg)
This was when MD wasn't putting anymore steroid-using bodybuilders (male ones, at least) on its covers after all the blowback from Andreas Munzer's death.
Garry was/is an OK fella. Obviously I knew him in my MMI days. Was always friendly and pleasant to be around.
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Garry was/is an OK fella. Obviously I knew him in my MMI days. Was always friendly and pleasant to be around.
Was he a middleweight or lightweight competitor, in his heyday?
BTW, I just checked some of my old magazines in the garage. I was right.
The Melissa-Coates cover was the last issue of "Muscular-Development-Fitness-Health" (Jan. 1997). The next month, it officially became "All-Natural-Muscular Development (Feb. 1997), with fitness champion Karen Hulse on the cover (again, no male bodybuilders up front).
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I don’t know.
After the late-nineties I totally lost track of what she was doing.
In the interviews she is always with Sabu and they seem to live together.
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:)
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Real bummer.
She was totally cool. We hung out a lot in the 1990's.
Super fun. Kick ass girl.
PIP Gorgeous.
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What's there to do in Thunder Bay? It's in the middle of nowhere. :o
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What's there to do in Thunder Bay? It's in the middle of nowhere. :o
according to Matt eating “ slit” Is the national pastime
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:)
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I'm guessing it was suicide. She was down to that or another sellebrity grand opening of a Piggly Wiggly with Sabu.
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I'm guessing it was suicide.
Could very well have been. But if so, I find this extremely upsetting. More so than the overwhelming majority of suicides, for some reason. When I saw her she was so vibrant looking and beautiful.
To imagine her situation would devolve to a point when she’d off herself …
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I'm guessing it was suicide. She was down to that or another sellebrity grand opening of a Piggly Wiggly with Sabu.
Could have been but she had vascular problems which is why her leg was amputated.
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:)
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More than anything else except maybe their big fat ego (and a HUGE EGO is definitely a contraindication when it comes to AAS, etc.) what gets these fools is their terminal stupidity.
And yes, she was a very pretty woman who is now pretty dead. Life is hard. It's really hard when you're really stoooopid.
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She was great back then
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80s
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:)
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Those (“80s”) photos above have been fucked with.
Some schmoe went bonkers on them with Photoshop or whatever.
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She was only one of 2 FBB's I've got to know personally & we were friends for 15 years.
She had a crazy-busy life so was hard to keep up with though she was very sweet, talkative, but also very insecure for the incredible natural beauty she had (too many unnecessary plastic surgery procedures to tweak things that never needed to be tweaked), & too fatally sincere to really succeed in either the fitness or wrestling industry; no matter how long she stayed in the U.S., she never shook being "the small-town girl from Thunder Bay, ON. Canada".
The cause of death remains private, but I do know she simply stopped breathing, couldn't be revived, & autopsy results would have to provide an answer, I wasn't about to ask any of her family members about that again 3-4 week later. So I strongly suspect either an embolism or a rare, 2nd blood clot attack related to her amputation, which wasn't caught in time.
R.I.P.
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She was only one of 2 FBB's I've got to know personally & we were friends for 15 years.
She had a crazy-busy life so was hard to keep up with though she was very sweet, talkative, but also very insecure for the incredible natural beauty she had (too many unnecessary plastic surgery procedures to tweak things that never needed to be tweaked), & too fatally sincere to really succeed in either the fitness or wrestling industry; no matter how long she stayed in the U.S., she never shook being "the small-town girl from Thunder Bay, ON. Canada".
The cause of death remains private, but I do know she simply stopped breathing, couldn't be revived, & autopsy results would have to provide an answer, I wasn't about to ask any of her family members about that again 3-4 week later. So I strongly suspect either an embolism or a rare, 2nd blood clot attack related to her amputation, which wasn't caught in time.
R.I.P.
Sorry for your loss. Also was sad to read she went through some real hard times in recent years with her leg situation.
RIP to Melissa.
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RIP Melissa
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More than anything else except maybe their big fat ego (and a HUGE EGO is definitely a contraindication when it comes to AAS, etc.) what gets these fools is their terminal stupidity.
And yes, she was a very pretty woman who is now pretty dead. Life is hard. It's really hard when you're really stoooopid.
Bro...
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Those (“80s”) photos above have been fucked with.
Some schmoe went bonkers on them with Photoshop or whatever.
This appears to be a clear cut case of Schmotoshop......
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This appears to be a clear cut case of Schmotoshop......
No she was really that big
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No she was really that big
And now she is really that dead. Congenital stoopid takes another one. Good riddance.
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She was great back then
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80s
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She really was a naturally beautiful woman! Thanks for sharing Kwon!
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She really was a naturally beautiful woman! Thanks for sharing Kwon!
She reminds me a bit of Getbigs Karen when she was young
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She reminds me a bit of Getbigs Karen when she was young
She was never as big muscular wise.
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She was never as big muscular wise.
No she wasn't, she had small joints that made her muscles look bigger than they really were after she dieted, & unfortunately she experienced permanent joint damage when Charles Glass overtrained her for her pro debut at the 1996 Jan Tana which she won, but was not worth the price her body ultimately paid for it.
And by the way, the lower posted pics of her are legit, her guns were genetically huge (her childhood nickname was "pipes", due to her arms), & they hardly needed training!