Cathey Palyo

Cathey Palyo is a professional female bodybuilder from the United States who rose through the amateur ranks and won the overall title at the National Physique Committee Nationals in 1986. In 1988 she became the first American woman to win the Ms. International contest. Her contest history begins with the 1985 AAU Ms. America and the 1985 NPC Tournament of Champions, and in 1986 she won the NPC California Championship, the NPC USA Championship heavyweight class and the IFBB World Amateur Championship heavyweight class. She placed 14th at the 1987 Ms. Olympia and 16th in 1988. In 2000 she went back to her maiden name, Catt Tripoli, and wrote the book Conscious Fitness, which won a Nautilus Book Award silver in 2016. She became a certified clinical hypnotherapist in 2009 and owned four gyms in Santa Rosa, California.