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www.MOSTmag.com || FITNESS MAG A ZINE || 109y parents paved the road for me on which I traveled, but now I am shaping my own path to greatness. I am a hairstylist with a unique attention to detail, giving my clients the perfect look for any situation. Just like in my work, in the gym I train rigorously and with equal passion and dedication, paying attention to every aspect of the body%u2019s aesthetic to reflect the beauty that I see in life. As a child I was imbued with my Spartan heritage from my Greek grandparents. It came with a rich culture, tradition, and history-all things that I continue to relate to. My father inspired me with his motivation and pride to honor our Greek ancestry through his own tremendous successes with body-building and modeling.When I look in the mirror, I am proud to have Norwegian blood pumping through my veins from my mother as well. I have a duty to honor my heritage, which has survived through countless wars and other adversity to finally make it to me today. This drives my unstoppable motivation to achieve greatness in any challenge that lies before me. Ever since I came out of the womb (with a six pack too of course), I was baptized into the dominion of aesthetics. When I look back at old family photos there is not one picture where I am not striking some kind of pose. My father had made it his life mission to influence me in the world of body building, aesthetics, and anything to do with alpha testosterone male attributes. He embedded this way of life so deep into my subconscious that he would joke around and even tell me that he selected my mother as a suitable mate because she had excellent lower body muscle genetics and she was of Viking/Scandinavian decent (another alpha warrior culture). He was lacking in that department so he wanted to, and I quote %u201cgenetically engineer%u201d an offspring, and she was worthy of his %u201cseed.%u201d Surprisingly enough, he never had to %u201cper say%u201d ever push me into my men%u2019s physique competitions, but he was always supportive of whatever decision I made. But you see it was so ingrained in my DNA, that I didn%u2019t need any more motivation than what I had already convinced myself I was destined to become. He always said despite what you want to believe in this world there is the way things should be and then just the way things are; unfortunately we live in a very shallow and narrow minded world where aesthetics rules almost every facet of our lives, even if we don%u2019t realize it. We are compelled to desire beauty in any form. I think he was on to something.My first show was The Cutler in 2013. I was so inexperienced despite having my father (a champion in his day at body building) by my side. This is because he wanted to see how bad I truly wanted it and pretty much just let me do everything on my own, kind of like throwing me in the water and learning how to swim. I was so nervous and so concerned that I wasn%u2019t going to be prepared enough, so it ultimately led me to commit my biggest mistake which was also my greatest learning experience. I over did it with both cutting the calories and doing too much cardio. I was so concerned about being razor sharp and so lean that I ended up just looking like a well-defined skeleton. I placed dead last. Being