Nancy Oshana Wehbe

Nancy Oshana Wehbe, born on June 25, 1975, is a Syrian-American bodybuilder who competed in bodybuilding and bikini modeling between 2000 and 2012. She was born in the village of Tell-Tamar in Syria and at ten years old was sent by her parents, with her older brother, to relatives in Chicago to be educated in the United States. She is of Assyrian ethnicity, worked from the age of fifteen to support her schooling, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in international business and business management. She began serious weight training in the mid 1990s and later became a certified personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise. Her listed results include the 2000 IFF Miss Bikini National overall title, first place at the 2001 NGA Natural Powerhouse, first place and overall winner at the 2002 NPC Regional Midwest, second place at the 2003 INBJ Great Lakes Bodybuilding, and in 2012 the overall win at the NPC Illinois State Masters and fifth place in the NPC Figure open.