Candy Csencsits

Candy Csencsits (born Candace Marie Pitts on 29 December 1955 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, died 13 January 1989) was an American professional female bodybuilder and actress of the early 1980s. She took up the sport while studying physical education in college, placed fifth in her first show and reached professional status after several more. She finished sixth in the 1981 Ms. Olympia and seventh in 1982, and at her peak in 1983 she was runner-up to Carla Dunlap for the title, after taking second at the 1982 Pro World Championship. She judged for the IFBB, served as president of the American Federation of Women's Body Building and was a pioneer of drug testing for women bodybuilders. A breast cancer diagnosis in 1984 ended her competing career, and she also appeared in the 1984 television film Getting Physical.