Alana Shipp

Alana Shipp is a professional female bodybuilder from Barbados who is based in Jerusalem. She was born in 1982 in Bridgetown, Barbados, to Guyanese parents, spent her early childhood in Guyana and moved to Queens, New York City, at the age of 11. After high school she enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served almost eight years as a non-commissioned officer in logistics procurement, with postings in Okinawa, Camp Pendleton and New Orleans, before moving to Israel in late 2008. She began working out in 2011 to lose weight gained during two pregnancies, first competed in the fitness category and then turned to bodybuilding. At the 2013 NPC National Championship she won the middleweight division and earned her IFBB pro card, and in 2014 she placed fourth at her first Ms. Olympia.