Lesa Lewis

Lesa Lewis (born 9 March 1967 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American professional female bodybuilder nicknamed Amazon. She grew up with three brothers and three sisters, ran track, played basketball and swam in high school, and ran sprints and relays at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a year before working in fashion design and construction. She began weight training in 1992 and won the heavyweight class and overall at the 1997 NPC USA Championship, earning her IFBB pro card. In 1998 she won the Jan Tana Classic and placed second at the Ms. International, though she was disqualified after a failed diuretic test. She finished third in the heavyweight class at the 2000 Ms. Olympia and appeared in the 2000 documentary film Bodybuilders.