Mary Roberts

Mary Roberts was one of the top professional female bodybuilders of the 1980s. She possessed a classic short physique, five feet three, that was thick, with an overwhelming upper body even as a lightweight, and her big arms, deltoids and chest, mature looks and challenging dark eyes projected a powerful, confident aura onstage. A three-page photospread in the September 1982 issue of Muscle and Fitness used her, in a side chest pose, to epitomize the most heavily muscled physique, and the male bodybuilder Casey Viator called her physique awesome. At the 1984 Ms. Olympia she placed third, tied with the former Ms. Olympia winner Rachel McLish, a result that brought some controversy.