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By Michael Berg
LEARN MORE You can get more information about MHP athlete Mariella Pellegrino at mhpstrong.com.
work on television shows and also
as a model. When did you first discover the gym? I started training with weights about seven years ago, and a personal trainer in the gym gave me some advice to compete. I always had a discipline for training, but I never had a discipline about food. When you’re a model, you have to be skinny [but you don’t have to build muscle]. How did you do in your first bikini contest? My first was the Italian Championships, and I didn’t know anything about the sport. I just trained three months with weights and a personal trainer. I won the show, and then I started to love this
Photograph by Erica Schultz
