Juliette Bergmann

Juliette Bergmann (born 1958, previously Meijer) is a Dutch female bodybuilding champion. Born Juliette Maria Suzanna Bergmann in Vlaardingen, Netherlands, to a Dutch mother and an Indonesian father, she is one of five children, lost two brothers in childhood and believes that period made her disciplined and responsible. She studied financial management, journalism and fitness training, married in 1975 and divorced in 1985, and her younger sister is also a bodybuilder. She began training in bodybuilding in 1981, with her ex-husband, to lose weight, after watching a female bodybuilding contest, entered her first competition in 1982 and placed first, and decided in 1983 to become a bodybuilder after another contest where she noticed how good the competitors looked.