The first time I met Angela Gargano was in a small, cluttered basement room of a massive televangelical church just outside Orange, Connecticut. I was shooting for the September/October 2017 issue of Oxygen with a photographer I had never used before and a random girl from Rhode Island who had pitched herself as a fitness model. This would be an editorial litmus test for me to see whether…
Growing up, Lindsay Raynne relied on food for emotional support. “I came from a broken family, and eating was my constant,” she says. “Stability in caloric intake, you could say. I could always count on the joys of taste.” Low income living meant poor food quality…
Growing up, Ellie Marie Manacchio realized that she didn’t look like her peers.
“I was always the heavy kid in a room of super-thin friends,” she remembers. “My dad told me I was ‘big boned’ and that it was just our family’s genetics.” Manacchio came from a…
We chose a location on a random stretch of beach just off the Honoapi‘ilani Highway on Maui — a place where we could pull Claire P. Thomas’ converted Sprinter van through the kiawe trees and onto the sand. The only other people around were a few environmental volunteers taking water samples down the way.
We were shooting Thomas “making breakfast,” and she stood just inside the van…
Lindsay Raynne was featured in considered one of Oxygen’s Success Tales for her unbelievable transformation — not solely bodily, however on the within, too.
Turning into a mother is without doubt one of the most particular experiences you possibly can have, however for…
Our latest Oxygen Ambassador, Jaclyn Cordeiro, is a power to be reckoned with. She grew up with two older brothers and shortly realized the time period “survival of the fittest” in her family. Cordeiro additionally performed each sport she might: soccer, Taekwondo…
2022 Arnold Classic Winner Lauralie Chapados on Contest Prep and Leg-Day Musts
January 24, 2023
Lauralie Chapados was in shock after winning The Arnold Classic 2022 Bikini International competition. In fact, it didn’t exactly hit her until days later during media interviews when people addressed her as Ms. Bikini International.
“I was like, ‘Who?’” Chapados says, laughing. “In the moment I won, it was relief and redemption.”
Chapados is an elite bikini athlete who has…
We first met Skye Halliday Wilson in June 2020 when she shared the story of how health modified her life. She advised us her purpose was to share what she is aware of with others and earn a ISSA group train certification. We’ve adopted Wilson’s journey by means of the…
You could not be capable to inform from her upbeat Instagram posts or cheery perspective on her YouTube channel, however Southern California native Noel Arevalo had a troublesome upbringing.
At 13, she was already caring for herself independently. Spending years on her…
Anna Victoria has 1.1 million followers on Instagram, a thriving health profession and a model new child. Ladies from throughout the nation look to her for recommendation, inspiration and as a “superhero” match mother.
However you don’t all the time see the trials and tribulations that come earlier than the top outcome. Victoria started her health journey in her early 20s when she was…