How do you feel about this LEGENDARY female bodybuilder dying?

[Lookingforthetruth]

Arnold Schwarzenegger sits on the shoulders of bodybuilder Lisa Lyon. She stood at 5-foot-4 and weighed just 120 lbs.

Lisa Lyon, a pioneer in professional women’s bodybuilding and Playboy model, has died. She was 70.

A friend of Lyon reportedly told TMZ that Lyon died Friday at her home in the San Fernando Valley where she was in hospice care.

The cause of death was stomach cancer, the source claimed.

Fellow bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger honored Lyon in a statement to TMZ, raving, “She is the best. I love her.”

Lyon put women’s bodybuilding on the map in 1980 when she won the first International Federation of Bodybuilders Woman’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship.

She also posed for Playboy that year and would go on to be featured in lots of health and fitness magazines.

Comic book writer Frank Miller also modeled the Marvel Comics character Elektra off of Lyon.

She also had a short acting career in “Three Crowns of the Sailor” in 1983, the bodybuilding movie “Getting Physical” in 1984, and in “Vamp” alongside Grace Jones in 1986.

She was inducted into the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federal Hall of Fame in 2000 for elevating bodybuilding to an art form.

[Likes2drive]

I didn’t know much of her but probably saw her in movies, even healthy fit people still die of something unfortunately, she probably could have lived much longer if they would finally find a cure for cancer. Didn’t know she just died though

[strateguy632]

probably sad for her family. we still have her pictures

[WonderingManII]

I never heard of her.