Posted on 10/15/2026 8:19:50 AM PDT by Libloather
A successful bodybuilder mom has died just two weeks after competing in the female division of Mr. Olympia.
Marianne von Gierke, 40, died on Wednesday, Chile’s bodybuilding federation announced, without revealing the cause of death. She leaves behind an 11-year-old son.
The pro bodybuilder’s death came just two weeks after she finished in 13th place in the Mr. Olympia women’s physique category. It was her second time in the top event, coming 16th in 2024.
Von Gierke, who turned pro in 2021 and also worked as a trainer, was active on social media in the days before her death, with her final post hours earlier congratulating a pal on her physique transformation.
She recently also thanked her boyfriend of 10 years, Juan Cofré García, for his support during a grueling season where she clinched the Rising Phoenix World Championship title.
“He is with me 365 days a year, not only when things go well, but also through every difficult stage of a preparation,” she said alongside a loved-up photo of the couple.
She called him “the one who lives with me through every process, my good days, my doubts, my frustrations and my goals. The one who holds from the shadows a fundamental part of all they see on stage.
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“Why does her head look like it was photo-chopped?”
Androgens cause secondary male sex characteristics to occur in females:
larger jaw
larger nose
facial hair (and body hair all over)
general facial masculinization
clitoris growth
thickening vocal chords/Adam’s apple
Etc.
Female body builders are a turn off to me.
Way too masculine looking.
Nein danke! Not even with Clinton’s.
Sad to die young and leave a grotesque corpse.Yet there are people who see it as a beautiful corpse. Sorry but there no longer exists in America a core consensus of commonly held decent values.
Exactly! A woman's body does not get that lean without a drug of some kind.
Women need a certain amount of fat for child baring. Their bodies find a way to put on fat if the calories are available.
Whatever a woman does to counter that is likely going to have a negative impact on health.
The left ruined mental health in this country, that woman needed counseling to fix her, not competitions to push her.
I really hate the dagger nails that are the style for women today.
One of the contributors,is probably a total lack of fat in her diet.
All that plus death for 13th place? Wonder what 1 thru 12 look like?
Im sure somebody is gonna blame steroids.
I'll take suicide for $200.
That’s a lot of spray paint.
I don’t think body builders are especially fearsome, for two reasons: 1) their physiques are for show only, since they do nothing else but parade the artificial musculature and; 2) they’re afraid of damaging the appearance should a physical conflict ensue.
Good study for medical students cadaver lab. Muscle origins and insertionss very clearly defined.
“I’ll take suicide for $200”
Story says she had just clinched the Rising Phoenix World Championship title.
Why go through all that rigorous training and THEN kill yourself?
Not impossible I guess.
Most likely.
She also clinched the Rising Phoenix World Championship title. So she apparently had had some success.
That’s the sad truth.
“Why go through all that rigorous training and THEN kill yourself?”
Literally “nothing left to live for”?
Yep.
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