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The Body is the Statement: Jet from Gladiators on History's Fitness Queen, Lady Lisa Lyon

The Body is the Statement: Jet from Gladiators on History's Fitness Queen, Lady Lisa Lyon

Update: 2025-08-26
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There’s a photo – you can google it – which when you see it, you’ll laugh, you’ll double-take, you’ll think ‘whaaaat?’. It’s of a young woman, she’s small, five foot nothing and she’s in a fitness gym. But it’s what she’s carrying that makes you stare. Because balanced on her shoulders is none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Her name is Lisa Lyon and she is a legend in the fitness world. The first female bodybuilding world champion, the inspiration for the Marvel superhero Elektra and the muse for the mould-breaking photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. So tune in for a very special episode as Carla and Oswin are joined by none other than Jet from Gladiators, Diane Jetstrong, to celebrate a woman who shook the worlds of fitness, art history, gender and health.

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The Body is the Statement: Jet from Gladiators on History's Fitness Queen, Lady Lisa Lyon

The Body is the Statement: Jet from Gladiators on History's Fitness Queen, Lady Lisa Lyon