Name: Katya Jade Monroe Title: The Athlete Age: 26 Birthday: April 23, 1983 Class: Nouveau Riche Residence: Metro Picturesque, on the coast Sexuality: straight Played By: Robyn Coleman
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:
Katya is a blond-haired, blue-eyed bombshell. She stands at a statuesque 6 feet tall and is 220 pounds of pure muscle. Her thighs resemble tree trunks, and her arms are like large slabs of beef, but she has a sweet, feminine face that's at odds with her intimidating size, and she moves with the confidence and deliberate grace of a show elephant. Her skin is naturally pale and clear, so she tans during show season to show off that rippling musculature. In competition and at the gym, she prefers skin-tight spandex that shows off the evidence of her hard work. In the real world, however, she has trouble finding clothes that will fit her unique physique, and so when she isn't on the beach in a bikini, she can generally be seen in velour track suits and loose-fitting cotton sundresses.
BACKGROUND:
Katya was born and raised in Tampa to a white-collar father and a Ukrainian mother. Her father made decent money as a police officer. Her mother did some modeling in her late teens when she first arrived in Florida from the Ukraine. She was tall and blond, with perfectly symmetrical Eastern European features. She showed a lot of promise, but she got pregnant and married Katya's father before her career could really take off. She stopped modeling to become a stay at home mom and retreated into anonymity. Still, Katya's mother carefully kept her body slender for the rest of Katya's childhood.
By the age of 15, Katya reached her full adult height of 6'0”. While she took after her taller, broader father, she felt that modeling was the only avenue open to a woman of her height. She struggled through her teens trying to force her body into the naturally slender physique of a model. She was always on a diet, and even her rare times of success left her unfulfilled. She never developed disordered eating habits, but she never identified with the girl in the mirror or in photographs. It always felt somehow artificial.
She stumbled upon bodybuilding accidentally at the age of 20 while attending Hillsborough Community College. She had all but given up a career in modeling when she met a man a few years her senior at the gym. That weekend, he brought her to an abandoned airport hangar filled with weights and benches and introduced her to the joys of power lifting.
Katya ended up dating him for a while, and while her relationship with him ended after two years, her love for weight lifting continued. She continued to watch her diet, but with a bodybuilder's goal in mind. Her body took to the new workout and diet regime, and she put on muscle quickly. Before long, she was competing in competitions, and shortly after that, she was winning. She moved to Miami to participate in the more prestigious South Florida bodybuilding and power lifting competitions, and quickly rose to the level of celebrity in her field. With a sports drink sponsorship and an Olympic medal, she was able to buy a house in Picturesque, where she lives in the off-season with her Pomeranian, Neptune.
OCCUPATION: Katya is a professional bodybuilder and power lifter. She began five years ago at the age of twenty, and has already won several local and national titles. She also competed in last summer's Olympic games, where she won a bronze medal. She plans to return in 2012, and do even better. Meanwhile she's living high on the hog with a sports drink sponsorship, and continues to work on her body and her tan in preparation for her next round of competitions.
PERSONALITY:
Katya is generally a very down-to-earth person. She enjoys the sun and the beach, waking up in the morning, the feeling of her heart pounding and the sweat on her skin during a good workout, and the feel of her dog's fur. She has her morning protein shake on the veranda while she watches the sun rise in the mornings. She calls her mother and father in Tampa every week and visits them for important holidays. Bodybuilding and weight lifting are hardly high-exposure sports, but Katya hasn't let what little fame she has go to her head.
Although she's large and muscular, Katya doesn't feel any less feminine. She has a collection of bikinis that she enjoys wearing to the beach and loves adding to that collection. Like most young women, she had issues with her body as a teenager; but, she has grown into a confident adult, completely at home in her own skin.
Of course, not everyone approves of her career or her appearance. Many men won't date her, and she's had to listen to her fair share of comments about steroids or about how muscular women are “grotesque”. Still, she tries not to concern herself with the opinions of others. She knows she's powerful and beautiful and sexy, and except in her rare moments of self-doubt trusts that she'll eventually find someone who agrees.
In her free time when she is not at the beach, training, playing with her dog or taking online college courses, Katya loves to curl up on the sofa with a paperback or a good romantic comedy.
GOALS:
Katya's career has taken off, but she still believes there's more she can achieve. She wants to keep winning bodybuilding and weightlifting titles. While she was happy with her first showing at the Olympics, she wants to return in 3 years and do even better. She also would like to finish college, perhaps with a degree in marketing, so that she can have the skills to market herself. Above all, however, she wants what any girl wants: to find love from a man who will love her in spite of her physical quirks.