Sheila Bleck

Sheila Bleck (born 1974) is an American retired professional female bodybuilder. She was born in Coos Bay, Oregon, with her identical twin sister Sherry, to a young, unmarried mother, and grew up helped by her grandmother after the twins suffered abuse by babysitters between the ages of three and five. She graduated from North Bend High School in 1992 and describes herself as always athletic. Her mother bought the twins their first weight bench when she was twelve, and she names Rocky Balboa and the Incredible Hulk as early inspirations. A modern dancer, she began lifting seriously at sixteen, when she joined a powerlifting gym, trained first with Jake Grabow at Better Builds Gym, started competing soon after high school and won the NPC Nationals in 2008, which earned her an IFBB pro card.